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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 | July 5, 2017
A jury has awarded $180,000, including punitive damages, to a former associate of Ronald A. Blumfield P.C., who claimed the firm failed to pay him origination fees promised in his employment agreement.
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By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | July 3, 2017
Use, Occupancy Awarded From Date Respondent On Notice Use Unauthorized
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By Lizzy McLellan | June 28, 2017
Lamb McErlane has been ordered to disgorge millions in estate fees after billing nearly $6 million to the estate of Sir John Thouron. The firm is appealing the adjudication, which said the firm breached its fiduciary duty to the estate.
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By B. Colby Hamilton | June 27, 2017
Attorney fees are too high in the $1.34 billion final distribution agreement with Tremont Group Holdings Inc., Bernie Madoff's second-largest feeder fund that lost billions in the Ponzi scheme collapse, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said.
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By Ross Todd | June 27, 2017
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria wrote that the state's efforts to get information about IMDb's lobbying and amici campaigns were "harassing."
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By John Council | June 19, 2017
The attorneys claimed they were entitled to take a piece of their client's business under a contingent fee agreement.
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By Charles Toutant | June 13, 2017
A federal judge in Camden has tossed some claims for malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty against Archer & Greiner and two of its lawyers arising from their representation of the former general counsel of a vacation time-share company.
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By Max Mitchell | June 8, 2017
The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that some attorneys fear may have a "chilling effect" on lawyers representing injured workers.
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By P.J. D'Annunzio | June 6, 2017
The lawyers who successfully defended the creators of a play that used Abbott and Costello's famous "Who's on First" gag from copyright infringement claims are one step away from a $50,000 court-ordered payday.
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By Roy Strom | June 1, 2017
President Donald Trump's Illinois finance chairman and his family owe $5.7 million in unpaid legal fees to Nixon Peabody related to a 95-day trial in 2014, a Cook County Circuit Court judge ruled Wednesday.
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