By Amanda Bronstad | February 16, 2024
The fee committee, which is comprised of the three lead plaintiffs' firms in the Roundup multidistrict litigation, allocated 81% to themselves, but three firms objected to their allocations.
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By Allison Dunn | February 14, 2024
State and federal trial courts have split on whether punitive damages are available for contract claims outside of the insurance context, according to a recent ruling from U.S. District Judge Michael Shea of the District of Connecticut.
By Mason Lawlor | February 13, 2024
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By Amanda Bronstad | February 12, 2024
At least five plaintiffs' firms, including Wisner Baum, which won verdicts of $289 million and $2 billion in 2018 and 2019, are objecting to the allocation of common benefit fees in the Roundup multidistrict litigation.
By Michael A. Mora | February 2, 2024
"These new lawyers are integrating their N.Y. rates into the market and increasing the rates, but I don't think that the rates charged for local work are increasing at the same pace," attorney fees expert Edward Mullins, a partner at Reed Smith, said about Miami's high rates.
By Allison Dunn | January 26, 2024
Based on his hours in the classroom, the adjunct professor earned $75 per hour for teaching the banking law course, and approximately $102 per hour for the second course—rates "far exceeding" Maine's minimum wage and salary-basis requirement in Section 663(3)K, the court determined.
By Michael A. Mora | January 25, 2024
The lower court judge held that a $4,000 hourly rate "shocks the undersigned's conscience."
By Scott Mollen | January 23, 2024
Scott Mollen discusses "Universal Construction, Inc. v. Ramza," "Axos Bank v. Ottomanelli," and "Omega Mkt. v. NYC Dep't of Environmental Protection.
By Michael A. Mora | January 19, 2024
"It's not a matter of if; it's just a matter of when the Supreme Court will take one of these cases and strike them down nationally," said Mathew Staver, chairman of Liberty Counsel.
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By Ellen Bardash | January 4, 2024
Famed attorney Alan Dershowitz, holding what he said was a file folder containing checks, said as a gesture of good faith and an effort to resolve the longest-running Chancery case after nearly 10 years.
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