By Emily Saul | February 2, 2023
Filmmaker Paul Haggis does not want to pay the more than $3 million in fees and costs accrued by Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel.
By Jason Grant | January 11, 2023
Gibson Dunn's lawsuit filed in 2016 alleges that several individual defendants are liable based on theories of alter ego and piercing the corporate veil after a judgment for outstanding fees was entered against former client Be In, Inc.
By Dan Packel | January 3, 2023
Kasowitz accused Glenn Agre lawyers of demanding a disproportionate share, but founder Andrew Glenn called the firm's lawsuit nothing more than a ploy for leverage.
By Jason Grant | December 16, 2022
The Appellate Division, First Department court focused on Dr. Peter Foley Rizzo's failure to "adequately plead proximate causation" as part of his malpractice counterclaim lodged against the Manhattan-based firm of Belair & Evans, which had sued the physician for allegedly unpaid legal fees.
By Jason Grant | December 5, 2022
Scarola Zubatov Schaffzin's Supreme Court suit based on alleged fraudulent inducement committed by former client Dynamic Credit Partners and its principal, James Finkel, will go forward after the Appellate Division, First Department ruled that "summary judgment should not have been granted to defendants."
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Linton Mann III and William T. Russell Jr. | November 15, 2022
The Court of Appeals ruled last month that language in a contract must be express and "unmistakably clear" in order to evince the parties' intent to indemnify each other for attorney fees in an action between the parties.
Delaware Business Court Insider | News
By Ellen Bardash | November 10, 2022
Ex-Chancellor Andre Bouchard, who retired from the court last year, imposed sanctions on TransPerfect and Shawe in October 2019, ultimately leading to a contempt fee of more than $1.1 million. The company is asking for that to be wiped out.
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 But the Ninth Circuit, in a five-page unpublished opinion, found it lacked jurisdiction to review the order.
New York Law Journal | Expert Opinion
By Scott Mollen | October 4, 2022
Scott Mollen discusses "Bd. of Mgrs. of the 207-209 E. 120th St. Condo v. Dougan,' where a condo's by-laws did not show intent to require the unit owner to pay attorneys' fees, and "Forest Enters. Mgt. Inc. v. County of Warren," where the court found that EDPL provides additional allowance for attorneys' and appraisal fees.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Laurie J. McPherson and Samantha A. Barach | September 27, 2022
A discussion of fee shifting provisions which are important tools for enforcement of parties' obligations under their matrimonial settlement agreements.
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