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The Recorder

Flat-Fee Arrangement at Issue in Gilead-Merck Fee Fight

But Judge Beth Labson Freeman is signaling some measure of fee shifting in pharma companies' patent dispute.
10 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Clients Oppose Ballard Suit Seeking Cut of Merger Money

Clients of Ballard Spahr want the firm's suit against them thrown out, arguing the law firm has no claim to a cut of the proceeds from a merger that resolved antitrust litigation Ballard filed on their behalf.
14 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Laster Rules for Goldman Sachs in Advancement Row

Attorneys for a former Goldman Sachs computer programmer are appealing the Delaware Court of Chancery's ruling last week that blocked their client's bid to recover legal fees for defending himself against charges of stealing investment bank source code.
12 minute read

Daily Report Online

Oxford Center Founder Sued for Diluting Stock Shares Surrendered to Pay Legal Fees

An attorney's efforts to collect $47,000 in legal fees from entrepreneurial coach, business columnist and one-time congressional candidate Cliff Oxford has spawned three lawsuits, and left the lawyer and his firm holding 1,000 shares of a company he claims have been rendered worthless as Oxford dodges efforts to collect.
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

Compensation Board's Cut in Attorney Fees Upheld

The Third Department panel said the state Workers' Compensation Board was "fully authorized" to conclude that the refusal of the Sleepy Hollow firm of Rella & Associates to pay a $750 penalty for 18 months represented a dilatory tactic.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Cartoon: Fish Angles for Fees

"That looks exceptional."
1 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Twp. of Millcreek v. Angela Cres Trust, PICS Case No. 16-0840 (Pa. Commw. June 22, 2016) Leavitt, P.J. (27 pages).

Trial court properly held that the recovery of attorney and expert fees was governed solely by the eminent domain code, and trial court properly reduced trust's requested attorney and expert fees and costs. Affirmed.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Glover v. Udren Law Offices, P.C., PICS Case No. 16-0835 (Pa. June 20 , 2016) Saylor, C.J., Baer, J. (dissenting) (18 pages).

Superior Court erred in imposing a nontextual limiting construction on the word "person" in Act 6 in homeowner's action against law firm for charging unearned and excessive attorney fees in a mortgage foreclosure because the plain language of the statute did not exempt attorneys, debt collectors or any other third party from liability. Reversed.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Broken Promise to Pay Legal Fees Adds $500K to Forfeited Earnest Money

A Forsyth County jury has ordered a would-be developer on the losing end of a $1.2 million verdict involving a failed real estate deal to pay more than $500,000 in attorney fees, including those that were awarded during the first trial and more from the lawsuit seeking to collect them
11 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

NJ Firm Loses $42K Fee Award in Judgment Reversal

The state Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled a lower court misapplied the summary judgment standard in determining a defendant to prior litigation paid a New Jersey firm and its client with settlement money that did not belong to him.
7 minute read

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