For the third time in two years, the Texas Supreme Court has struck down an attorney fee award because lawyers didn’t tell a trial court exactly how much time they spent on each task.
But this time, in Long v. Griffin, while applying precedent about the lodestar fee calculation—a lawyer’s hours multiplied by his rate—the high court also found the litigants’ contingency fee contract wouldn’t support their attorney fee award.
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