By Amanda Bronstad | January 17, 2023
Plaintiffs lawyers in the $350 million data breach settlement with T-Mobile filed motions this month to strike two "notorious serial objectors" who are challenging their request for $78.75 million in attorney fees.
By Scott Graham | December 8, 2022
Judge William Alsup awarded $5.9 million in fees against Finjan last year while criticizing the conduct of its trial counsel. But on Wednesday, Federal Circuit judges suggested Alsup might not have been specific enough in his order to justify the entire fee award.
By Scott Graham | November 23, 2022
PTO Director Kathi Vidal has said she intends to sanction OpenSky Industries "to the fullest extent of the director's power" for double-dealing behavior in an America Invents Act proceeding. OpenSky is arguing that the AIA does not authorize an award of attorneys fees.
By Avalon Zoppo | November 17, 2022
A University of Denver law professor looks at how some states are mirroring a Texas provision meant to fend off challenges to the state's anti-abortion law.
By Amanda Bronstad | November 14, 2022
Plaintiffs lawyers and Apple's attorneys filed a Nov. 11 motion to approve the deal, which the Ninth Circuit reversed on Sept. 28.
By Amanda Bronstad | November 8, 2022
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, in a 2021 holding in the multidistrict litigation over Monsanto's Roundup pesticide, called common benefit fees "totally out of control," sending shockwaves throughout the mass torts bar. But the Ninth Circuit, in a five-page unpublished opinion, found it lacked jurisdiction to review the order.
By Amanda Bronstad | September 1, 2022
A bankruptcy trustee, in a lawsuit Wednesday, accused California Attorney Lending II of arranging Tom Girardi's financial agreements, illegally splitting fees and refusing to return stolen settlement funds–a possible crime.
By Scott Graham | July 27, 2022
Citing 'blatant gamesmanship' by patent owner Realtime Adaptive Streaming, the Federal Circuit affirms a trial judge's authority to award fees under his inherent equitable powers.
By Meghann M. Cuniff | June 23, 2022
A judge on Monday is to consider a default judgment against Avenatti, who initiated the case in 2011 but eventually stopped responding to filings.
By Meghann M. Cuniff | June 14, 2022
A star witness in a state court civil trial over an 11-year-old fee dispute, Panish revealed his own dispute over fees with Avenatti while bolstering the defense narrative of his former clients.
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