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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 Marcia Coyle | May 22, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday delivered multimillion-dollar good news and bad news to two major law firms. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom lost its challenge to a tax refund in Michigan. Jenner & Block prevailed in a fee dispute that involved a former client. Here's a snapshot of the two cases.
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By Christine Simmons | May 19, 2017
Allen & Overy is suing a former client for $343,448 arising out of its work for the development and financing of a solar power facility in Panama.
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By Andrew Denney | May 17, 2017
Lawyers for an investment advisory firm that fell victim to a scheme to defraud $230 million from the Russian treasury want Baker & Hostetler, which represented a real estate firm that was accused of taking part in the scheme, to cough up $1.4 million in attorney fees.
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By P.J. D'Annunzio | May 5, 2017
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled that it doesn't have jurisdiction to decide a discovery dispute in a case brought by a judge against his former law firm over contingency fees he claims he is owed.
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By Andrew Denney | May 3, 2017
A federal judge has awarded almost $52,000 in attorney fees to The New York Times for its successful Freedom of Information Act suit against the CIA to force the production of records related to abandoned chemical weapons in Iraq that sickened U.S. soldiers.
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By Scott Graham | May 2, 2017
Venture capitalist Kevin Kinsella took his claim that JAMS fraudulently inflated a neutral's biography to a San Diego Superior Court jury on Tuesday.
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By Jason Grant | April 27, 2017
The case involves a $270 million promissory note signed during a drunken night in Vienna.
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By Amanda Bronstad | April 25, 2017
The federal judge in the Volkswagen diesel emissions litigation has denied 244 motions for attorney fees but lifted an earlier injunction which had prevented law firms from suing their own clients for payment.
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By Amanda Bronstad | April 12, 2017
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer awarded the Seattle plaintiffs firm $2.3 million, a small fraction of its request.
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By Gabrielle Orum Hernández | April 12, 2017
Evolve Law panelists discussed how technology plays a part in changing the billable hour and the law firm partner structure.
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