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The Legal Intelligencer

US Judge Lets Counterclaims Proceed Against Phila. Firm Leader in Fee Dispute Over $44M Case

Two firms are fighting over how to split the fee award from a settlement secured for a Texas oilfield worker who was paralyzed after an improperly attached light fixture on an oil derrick fell more than 100 feet onto his head.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

The Dog Ate My Legal Bill: One Law Firm's Collection Nightmare

Most legal fee collection suits are pretty humdrum. Then there's Kent, Beatty & Gordon's suit against Ted Owen.
3 minute read

The Recorder

$360K Fee Award Upheld Despite Voluntary Dismissal of Patent Case

Buchalter pilots fitness company Health In Motion LLC to a Federal Circuit win over Blackbird Tech LLC, a lawyer-owned company that admits having filed more than 110 patent suits without winning a judgment on the merits.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Howry, Breen & Herman Triumphs in $200,000 Fee Dispute

A partnership dispute between investors of a road racing and off-road motorplex complex birthed at least four lawsuits, two of them against Texas law firms. The fourth of those cases is now over with Austin-based Howry, Breen & Herman winning an appeal over a $200,000 attorney fee dispute.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Jones Day Sues Pharma Client for $5 Million in Unpaid Bills

The law firm claims Serenity Pharmaceuticals stopped paying its bills roughly a year ago, and it's threatening to dip into the chief executives' pocket in order to get paid.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

USPTO Can't Recover Fees When Patent Applicants Take It to Court

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Patent Act provision awarding "all of the expenses" in a proceeding was not specific enough to overcome the American Rule presumption against fee-shifting.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Ex-GC Claims CFO Was Fixing Books to Give Executives Bonuses

Steven Berkovitch filed suit Dec. 6 on behalf of Five Hole LLC against Oded Segev in Delaware Chancery Court over allegations of breach of fiduciary duties, unjust enrichment and conversion.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Suit Claims PayPal Tramples Attorney-Client Privilege With 3rd-Party Access to Attorney Fees

A San Diego paralegal is trying to salvage fees he says he lost as a result of the company's policy of "unrestricted access" to other financial institutions.
2 minute read

The American Lawyer

Weil Facing Sharp Fee Objections in Ditech Bankruptcy

The New York law firm was one of several firms overbilling for services in the Chapter 11 case of a mortgage company, the U.S. trustee found in a review of final fee applications.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Lyft Tries to Hail $569,000 Fee Award in Patent Case

The ride-hailing company says that an inventor who was seeking $584 million in damages should have known the game was up once the Patent Trial and Appeal Board found his patent claims indefinite.
4 minute read

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