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Primarily news stories and digests that focus on legal fee disputes, both from a substantive perspective about how courts will interpret, but also focused on big firms and lawyers and figures embroiled in fee disputes.
By Lizzy McLellan | March 7, 2018
Pittsburgh's Meyer Darragh can recover nearly $15,000 from a firm that took over an estate case, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court found.
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By Robert Storace | March 7, 2018
A prospective class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of residents in four communities who claim they were wrongly billed a surcharge for their water usage.
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By Amanda Bronstad | March 6, 2018
A special master looking into potential overbilling in a $75 million attorney fee request has delayed the findings of a report he said could have “serious and far-reaching adverse ramifications” for plaintiffs firms in the case and “for the practice of the plaintiffs' class action bar.”
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By Jenna Greene | March 5, 2018
Lawyers from plaintiffs powerhouse Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd called out “a cadre of firms responsible for a dramatic explosion of federal deal litigation,” and urged a federal judge in San Francisco to reject a fee request by fellow plaintiffs' counsel.
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By Jenna Greene | March 5, 2018
Lawyers from plaintiffs powerhouse Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd called out “a cadre of firms responsible for a dramatic explosion of federal deal litigation,” and urged a federal judge in San Francisco to reject a fee request by fellow plaintiffs' counsel.
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By Law Journal Editorial Board | March 5, 2018
The court's decision in A.W. v Mount Holly Bd. Of Ed. is an important reaffirmation that the bargaining power between lawyer and client is often uneven, and as a consequence the fee charged is always subject to a review for reasonableness regardless of the terms of the negotiated fee agreement.
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By Mark Oshinskie | March 5, 2018
OP-ED: Skilled, principled attorneys should think very carefully about representing New Jerseyans who can't write big checks.
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By Max Mitchell | March 2, 2018
A Philadelphia attorney is seeking to appeal a nearly $230,000 judgment against him for allegedly failing to pay back a $25,000 litigation funding loan, but the judge overseeing the case has urged the Pennsylvania Superior Court not to take up the case.
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By Greg Land | February 28, 2018
Each side's lawyers disagree about how much the award should be reduced under apportionment law.
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By Ross Todd | February 27, 2018
The Ninth Circuit asked if partners who leave a dissolving firm have a duty to account for profits earned post-departure on matters subject to hourly billing under D.C. law.
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