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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 Allison Dunn | April 28, 2023
"What our court did was actually make clear that we do adopt common fund doctrine. The circuit court judge did not think we did. Almost every state and federal court that I could find recognizes it," said David J. Romano, an attorney who sought fees and costs after negotiating a separate $2.23 million settlement fund on behalf of unknown heirs.
5 minute read
By Emily Saul | April 21, 2023
Attorney Robert J. Feldman owes ex-client Donald Glassman $519,682.08, according to a judgement filed last year in Manhattan Supreme Court.
2 minute read
By Amanda Bronstad | April 12, 2023
On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed an $8 million class action settlement over the brain performance supplement Neuriva after finding that Frank, of the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, had standing to object.
4 minute read
By Riley Brennan | April 12, 2023
Following an $8 million civil rights judgment his favor, a former Massachusetts prisoner and his Chicago-based counsel at Loevy & Loevy were awarded an additional $743,395.87 in attorney fees and costs.
8 minute read
By ALM Staff | April 12, 2023
This ruling was selected and summarized by the New York Law Journal's decision editors.
2 minute read
By Emily Saul | April 11, 2023
The complaint alleges attorneys David Marcus and Brian Cinelli schemed with ex-Patterson Belknap client Barbara Stewart to sell off her 24.79-carat Harry Winston diamond ring in a private sale. Stewart owes Patterson Belknap more than $3.5 million in legal fees, according to the complaint.
3 minute read
By Riley Brennan | April 11, 2023
"The Lemon Law does permit a recovery of reasonable attorney's fees, but only when a consumer (1) has suffered a violation of the Lemon Law, and (2) brings a successful action to enforce his or her rights," said the court.
4 minute read
By Riley Brennan | April 7, 2023
A Colorado appeals court reversed a lower court's ruling that had been based on an insurer's internal settlement evaluation, after determining that such an evaluation doesn't establish an "undisputed" amount of benefits owed.
6 minute read
By Riley Brennan | April 4, 2023
"Their votes were counted, and no decision from this court can change that," U.S. District Judge Joseph F. Leeson Jr. of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania wrote. "Therefore, the plaintiffs received judicially sanctioned relief, the precise relief they requested when bringing suit, which materially altered their legal relationship with the Board."
4 minute read
By Riley Brennan | April 4, 2023
A federal judge in Pennsylvania sided with Kang Haggerty on former clients' counterclaim of breach of fiduciary duty, but allowed breach-of-contract claims from both sides to proceed.
5 minute read
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