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Butler Wooten and Ex-Partner Bob Cheeley Settle High-Dollar Fee Dispute

Cheeley sued his former firm, Butler Wooten & Peak, to void a confidential arbitration award involving millions of dollars in fees the firm said it was due in the wake of Cheeley's departure in 2016.
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Litigation Daily

SF's Joseph Saveri Wins Fight Over $54 Million Fee Award in Antitrust Case

Joseph Saveri said a Fourth Circuit ruling leaves him "entirely vindicated" in a dispute over one of his firm's first big wins after he split from Lieff Cabraser in 2012.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Saveri Wins Fight Over $54 Million Fee Award in Antitrust Case

Joseph Saveri said a Fourth Circuit ruling leaves him "entirely vindicated" in a dispute over one of his firm's first big wins after he split from Lieff Cabraser in 2012.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

San Francisco's Saveri Wins Fight Over $54 Million Fee Award

Joseph Saveri said a Fourth Circuit ruling leaves him "entirely vindicated" in a dispute over one of his firm's first big wins after he split from Lieff Cabraser in 2012.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Grant & Eisenhofer Resolves Fee Fight Tied to Celgene Whistleblower Case

The plaintiffs firm claimed an ex-partner poached a client who won a nearly $80 million whistleblower award against the drug maker.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Grant & Eisenhofer, Former Partner Call Truce in Fight Tied to Celgene Whistleblower Case

The plaintiffs firm had claimed in a federal case playing out in Los Angeles that ex-partner Reuben Guttman poached a client who won a nearly $80 million whistleblower award against the drug maker.
4 minute read

Law.com

Critical Mass: SCOTUS Looks at Preemption in Drug Labeling Case. Plus, Fee Dispute Roils Hip Implant MDL

In oral arguments Monday, Merck made its case for federal preemption before the U.S. Supreme Court, saying there was "clear evidence" that the FDA would have rejected language in a warning label proposed for its osteoporosis drug Fosamax.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Federal Judge Sanctions Plaintiff, Cautions Defense about Bypassing Arbitration in Patent Infringement Case

Plantation lawyer Andrew S. Rapacke improperly filed a patent infringement case that should have gone straight to arbitration, according to U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonago in Southern District of Florida, who awarded some — but not all — attorney fees and costs to the defense.
4 minute read

Law.com

Judge Signs Off on Fees in $1.5B Syngenta Corn Settlement

Plaintiffs' attorney Mikal Watts plans to appeal U.S. District Judge John Lungstrum's order, which largely approved a special master's recommendation on how to dole out $503 million in legal fees.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Infighting Between Lanier and Objectors Over Fees Roils Hip Implant Litigation

The dispute came to a head after U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade of the Northern District of Texas agreed last month to increase the percent that needed to be held back from settlement awards.
4 minute read

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