By Amanda Bronstad | July 22, 2020
In her Tuesday order, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh signed off on the $117.5 million data breach settlement with Yahoo Inc. but slashed attorney fees by more than $7 million after concluding the deal was "unexceptional" and the legal work "not particularly novel."
By Amanda Bronstad | June 18, 2020
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh, reviewing a $30 million attorney fee request, said she wanted more details on the total number of people billing by the hour. "I'm not going to award any attorney fees until I get it," she said.
By Ross Todd | June 11, 2020
Attorney Michael Traylor was seeking $308,000 for early work on a case that ultimately yielded a $7 million settlement. The Second District Court of Appeal found that Traylor hadn't handed over his file to lawyers who took over the case and had submitted three separate accounts of time spent on the matter.
By Jason Grant | June 4, 2020
In an eight-page order, U.S. District Judge Michael Watson of the Southern District of Ohio denies Trump's notice of registered foreign judgment seeking $293,052 of Daniels' settlement and tosses aside Avenatti's attorney lien seeking allegedly unpaid attorney fees from unrelated representation of Daniels.
By Scott Graham | May 13, 2020
A Georgia minister who sued for a declaratory judgment that famed TV preacher Eugene Scott abandoned his copyrights might have to pay up to $307,000 in attorney fees, the Ninth Circuit rules.
By Scott Graham | May 7, 2020
But the judge sounded poised to sign off on a special master's recommendation to award the tech giants about $4 million in attorneys fees. That's less than half of their original request in a patent dispute with Straight Path IP Group.
By Scott Graham | March 6, 2020
A special master says Cisco refused to follow U.S. District Judge William Alsup's specific instructions for documenting its flat-fee arrangement with two law firms.
By Scott Graham | February 24, 2020
U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar says that while some of RideApp and Kasowitz Benson Torres' conduct was "questionable," it didn't rise to the level of "exceptional" that triggers fee shifting.
By Scott Graham | December 16, 2019
Buchalter pilots fitness company Health In Motion LLC to a Federal Circuit win over Blackbird Tech LLC, a lawyer-owned company that admits having filed more than 110 patent suits without winning a judgment on the merits.
By Scott Graham | December 11, 2019
The decision made a winner of Irell & Manella partner Morgan Chu in his first argument to the Supreme Court and his California-based client, cancer treatment startup NantKwest.
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