The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | September 20, 2018
Attorneys from Washington, D.C., may not have secured all of the fees they were seeking, but they are still set to receive more than $2 million for handling a series of employment lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. D'Annunzio | September 12, 2018
A federal appeals court has upheld the denial of a $1 million fee request by a Scranton attorney in an auto insurance case that produced a verdict almost a tenth of the requested legal compensation. In its denial, the Third Circuit, joining other circuit courts, also held that it is within a judge's discretion to award no attorney fees at all, especially if the fee request is deemed "outrageously excessive."
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Lizzy McLellan | September 7, 2018
Just as its first post-swimsuit competition was getting underway in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the pageant organization was accused of stiffing its lawyers to the tune of $100,000.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Lizzy McLellan | September 5, 2018
Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis says the convicted comedian owes it more than $50,000 in fees.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By James M. Lammendola and Harper J. Dimmerman | July 6, 2018
A recent Superior Court opinion illustrates the way a fight for attorney fees might transpire within the commercial real estate lease context.
By Tom McParland | June 25, 2018
In awarding Drinker Biddle & Reath $41,000 in attorney fees for recovering $1 million on behalf of its clients in a breach of contract case, a Delaware Superior Court judge cited to the state's so-called "pizza principle," which holds that "it is more time consuming to clean up the pizza thrown at the wall than it is to throw it."
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | May 24, 2018
Most of the attorney fees a federal judge has allocated to the lawyers who hammered out the NFL concussion settlement are set to go to one firm: New York-based Seeger Weiss.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | May 22, 2018
A Scranton personal injury firm has lost its bid to keep a fee dispute with a Pittsburgh firm from being litigated in Allegheny Court.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | April 25, 2018
The Philadelphia Bar Association's criminal justice section has dropped its bid to win support for legislation aimed at providing needed funding for indigent defense counsel at the expense of the Jenkins Law Library.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Lizzy McLellan | March 23, 2018
After three other neutral arbitrators recused, Donald Haviland was unable to get retired Judge Mark Bernstein to recuse over ties to Drexel University's Thomas R. Kline School of Law.
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