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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 Max Mitchell | October 17, 2017
Can law firms that handed off a case to a successor firm recover its fees from the successor firm under a quantum meruit theory, or does the initiating firm need to sue the client?
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By Scott Flaherty | The American Lawyer | October 12, 2017
Reuben Guttman is seeking dismissal or summary judgment, saying the lawsuit merely rehashes old claims and is an attempt to sully his reputation.
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By Max Mitchell | October 12, 2017
During the oral argument session that is set to begin Tuesday the state Supreme Court is set to wade into muddy waters over quantum meruit claims for non-partner lawyers, and hear arguments on an issue that some say could have a chilling effect on the workers' compensation bar.
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By Max Mitchell | October 11, 2017
Chris Seeger, one of the lawyers leading class counsel in the settlement has made a $70 million fee request on behalf of his firm, Seeger Weiss, which he outlined Tuesday in a 22-page declaration to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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By Robert Storace | Connecticut Law Tribune | October 6, 2017
After it turned down a three-year contract agreement with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Hartford HealthCare Corporation alleges Anthem retaliated by refusing to pay HHC directly for emergency care. Instead, the new policy calls on patients to get reimbursed and then make arrangements to pay HHC.
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By Alexa Woronowicz | October 2, 2017
Attorney Awarded Fees for Services to Trust Beneficiaries to Be Paid From Trust's Funds
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By David F. Wertheimer and Justin S. Brenner | September 29, 2017
David F. Wertheimer and Justin S. Brenner write: Over the past few years, there has been a marked trend of corporate governance litigation involving Delaware corporations being filed outside of Delaware's Court of Chancery. New York is seeing its share of that exodus. Whether that share expands may depend, at least partly, on whether New York law on the award of mootness fees evolves to be more or less favorable than Delaware law.
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By Lizzy McLellan | September 28, 2017
Philadelphia-based Dilworth Paxson has resorted to litigation to finally settle the fate of nearly $150,000 in escrowed attorney fees in a case that dates back to the mid-1990s.
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By Lizzy McLellan | September 27, 2017
Duane Morris has reached a settlement with a former client who claimed he was overcharged, after the law firm said it already waived hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees.
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By Jenna Greene | September 24, 2017
Just as courts over time have found that it's no longer defamatory per se to say a person was born out of wedlock or has cancer, or to incorrectly report someone's race, so too Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gregory Keosian determined that “misidentification of a person as transgender is not actionable defamation absent special damages.”
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