By Amanda Bronstad | August 9, 2021
A bankruptcy trustee's request to send the NFL concussion cases to Goldberg, Persky & White, and 52 transvaginal mesh cases to Nadrich & Cohen and The Oshman Firm, is likely to go forward after Erika Girardi, the estranged wife of Tom Girardi, dropped her objection on Monday.
By Ellen Bardash | August 3, 2021
An order requiring the San Francisco Bay Area pharmaceutical company to pay $1.7 million of its foes' legal fees is the first to hold a corporate defendant financially liable for the cost of Section 220 litigation. Lawyers are wondering if the ruling could be applied in other types of corporate litigation.
By Scott Graham | July 27, 2021
Judge says three Kramer Levin partners "frustrated the fairness of the proceedings" in patent infringement action against Juniper Networks, and tells his judicial colleagues to be on the lookout for them.
By Nate Robson | July 7, 2021
Recent decisions from the Fifth and Tenth circuits may fuel a push to get a challenge before the U.S. Supreme Court.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 24, 2021
In a tentative order Thursday, Orange County Superior Court Judge Kirk Nakamura ordered attorneys David Yeremian and Jason Rothman to each pay $10,000 within 10 days. At issue was a declaration submitted in support of attorney fees stating that Rothman worked 357 hours, but added, "I actually worked 185.38 so the above hours are exaggerated to help us meet the lodestar but not seeming too far out of line."
By Scott Graham | May 25, 2021
Judge William Alsup declared "Finjan v. Juniper Networks" exceptional following his unique shootout system for litigating patent cases. Now a special master is recommending the judge award $6 million in fees to Juniper.
By David J. Libertella | May 20, 2021
A recent California Second District Court of Appeal case cautions attorneys to remain civil at the risk of penalization through reduced attorney's fee awards.
By Alaina Lancaster | March 12, 2021
The court held that the terms of the fee agreement control the amount of recoverable fees when an attorney sues a client for a breach of a valid and enforceable contract—even if it exceeds what a lodestar analysis would consider a reasonable fee.
By Cheryl Miller | March 9, 2021
California's Second District Court of Appeal found that a trial judge offered good reasons for capping attorneys fees in the case, including the plaintiffs' "incivility."
By Amanda Bronstad | March 3, 2021
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria appeared likely to trim an estimated $800 million in common benefit fees to lead counsel. He even questioned the need for a common benefit order at all. "The fact that something is repeatedly done in MDLs doesn't mean courts have authority to do it," he said at a Wednesday hearing.
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