By Amanda Bronstad | June 1, 2018
An appeals court has upheld an injunction freezing the assets of Stanley Chesley—once known as the "master of disaster" for his work in mass tort litigation—after concluding that the disbarred Cincinnati plaintiffs attorney is likely to continue what it called a “high-stakes shell game.”
By Scott Flaherty | May 30, 2018
Selendy & Gay lawyers are contesting a "forfeiture-for-competition" provision in Quinn's partnership agreement requiring its former lawyers to forfeit 10 percent of legal fees earned from clients they took with them.
By Scott Graham | May 30, 2018
An appeal by Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears could determine whether legal fees from PTO proceedings are recoverable in "exceptional" patent cases.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 29, 2018
U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf in Boston said he would address concerns by three plaintiffs firms currently serving as class counsel to State Street customers about the deadline to propose redactions to the report, which the special master filed under seal on May 14.
By Michael Booth | May 29, 2018
"We hold that a petitioning attorney may obtain a judgment against his or her client for the reasonable amount of unpaid legal fees in the underlying action without filing a separate action in the Law Division," Judge Richard Geiger said, joined by Judges Carmen Alvarez and Heidi Currier.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | May 24, 2018
Most of the attorney fees a federal judge has allocated to the lawyers who hammered out the NFL concussion settlement are set to go to one firm: New York-based Seeger Weiss.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 23, 2018
The objector, Adam Schulman, is an attorney at the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Center for Class Action Fairness, where Ted Frank, a known class action critic, is the director.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | May 22, 2018
A Scranton personal injury firm has lost its bid to keep a fee dispute with a Pittsburgh firm from being litigated in Allegheny Court.
Connecticut Law Tribune | News
By Robert Storace | May 21, 2018
Attorneys for Vito's By The Water restaurant said they are leaning toward appealing a Superior Court judge's ruling that states the eatery did not properly pay one of its workers under a law governing wages for employees earning tips.
Daily Report Online | Commentary
By Shari L. Klevens and Alanna Clair | May 21, 2018
It is well-recognized that often, when an attorney sues a client for unpaid fees, the client will bring a counterclaim for legal malpractice. Some sources indicate that the likelihood of receiving such a counterclaim could be as high as 40 percent; others place it even higher.
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