The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Allison Dunn | July 15, 2022
"The Audit Report—which found that across departments, the city lacks proper policies for investigating complaints of sexual harassment and disciplining employees when those complaints are sustained—ties McCowan's hostile investigation to this larger city custom," wrote U.S. District Judge Karen S. Marston of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
New York Law Journal | Expert Opinion
By Bruce J. Bergman | July 12, 2022
While lenders would like to believe that the subject of awarding legal fees in a mortgage foreclosure (or condominium lien foreclosure) action is reasonably consistent and predictable, that turns out not to be quite so.
By Allison Dunn | July 11, 2022
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has reversed a superior court judge's ruling, finding that a commercial liability insurance policy covering damages "because of 'bodily injury,'" does not include the automatic award of attorney fees.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Aleeza Furman | July 8, 2022
The decision centered on the appropriate meaning to apply to the word "exemplification," a term that U.S. District Judge Gene Pratter of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said has yet to be clearly defined.
By Marianna Wharry | July 8, 2022
In a matter of first impression that found the court looking to the recent high-profile defamation trial involving Hollywood exes Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, a federal judge has held that attorney fees cannot be recouped under the state's anti-SLAPP statute where the complaint was voluntary dismissed by the plaintiff.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | July 5, 2022
During the proceedings it became clear that the petitioners did not have a viable case, and failed to properly vet and prepare the challenges before "occup[ying] an extremely considerable amount of the court's and candidate's time," the judge said.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Mason Lawlor | July 1, 2022
"Their failure to provide factual background and citations to the record hinders our ability to assess their claim that the trial court abused its discretion in its selective excision of attorney time relating to billing," the court said.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Joel R. Brandes | June 29, 2022
In his Law and the Family column, Joel Brandes discusses the 2010 amendments to Domestic Relations Law §238, which are meant to require the court, in a proceeding to enforce a judgment, to order the monied party to pay interim counsel fees for the non-monied party at the outset of the case.
By Meghann M. Cuniff | June 23, 2022
A judge on Monday is to consider a default judgment against Avenatti, who initiated the case in 2011 but eventually stopped responding to filings.
By Allison Dunn | June 17, 2022
A federal judge in Maryland upheld a more than $6.1 million jury verdict in favor of a restoration contractor for lost profits and further awarded it more than $112,000 in sanctions-related fees.
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