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$7.1 Million in Attorney Fees Gone: South Florida Court Nixes Award Over Expert Testimony

"You need to make sure you understand not only your expert opinion, but [that] how they got there is based on a methodology that can actually be articulated," said Meland Budwick partner Meaghan Murphy.
4 minute read

Law.com

Skilled in the Art With Scott Graham: These Patent Lawyers Are Wearing Big Targets on Their Backs + Philip Morris Puffs on $575,000 Fee Award + PTO Can't Refuse to Register 'Trump' Trademarks

Kramer Levin's Paul Andre, Lisa Kobialka and James Hannah have spent the last 18 months winning a $1.9 billion verdict and then getting upbraided by two different district judges. Now other defendants are looking to capitalize on their recent missteps.
10 minute read

Daily Business Review

South Florida Judge Calls for Amendment That Could Affect Attorney Fees, Settlement Offers

A Fourth District Court of Appeal judge is calling for the Florida Supreme Court and the legislature to require an offeree to immediately address an ambiguity in a proposal for settlement, or waive the right to assert the ambiguity.
4 minute read

Law.com

'I'm Not Going to Let This Go': Plaintiffs Attorney Ordered to Pay Nearly $18K in Opposing Counsel Fees, Files Appeal

"Most people look at this and they say, 'Look at this crazy attorney, [he] filed a frivolous lawsuit in federal court after he lost in state court.' So, I look like a nut, but nobody knows the backstory, nobody knows what happened to get to this point," attorney Gary Dolan told Law.com.
9 minute read

Law.com

Law.com Litigation Trendspotter: Missing Evidence, Misplaced Expectations Doom Attorney Fee Petitions

A spate of recent rulings rejecting attorney fee petitions shows the importance of preparation when seeking reimbursement from an opposing party.
10 minute read

The Recorder

Boies Schiller Can Recover Only a Third of Requested Fees in Avenatti Nike Extortion Case

Nike's lawyers at Boies Schiller have said they don't want any restitution paid in the case until Avenatti pays individual victims in his other criminal cases.
4 minute read

Law.com

Japanese Billionaire Must Pay Nearly $55M in Attorney Fees to Bartlit Beck, 7th Circuit Rules

"Put plainly, Okada took himself out of the race. He cannot now complain that he was unfairly deprived of the chance to win," Circuit Judge Diane Wood wrote for the panel.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

South Florida Federal Judge Cuts Attorney Fee Request by Nearly 90% — Bad News for Lawyers?

The two law firms collectively sought $240,300 using the loadstar method and over $480,600 using a 2% multiplier. But the federal court awarded them less than $58,000.
4 minute read

Law.com

Appeals Court Upholds Sanction Against Lieff Cabraser for Misrepresentations in Fee Application

"That context makes clear to the reader that the judge did not find Lieff's conduct … as meriting any formal censure of any type, rather he merely made the kind of 'criticism' that we have deemed not to be appealable," the panel wrote.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Microsoft Subsidiary Won't Pay $250K in Merger Disclosure Case Fees

It's a relatively rare outcome for an acquired company facing merger disclosure claims, with the large majority of companies facing similar claims opting not to litigate a shareholder's requested fees as Nuance Communications Inc. did, represented by a team from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
3 minute read

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