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Delaware Business Court Insider

TransPerfect Attorney Offers Payment to End Years-Long Chancery Fee Dispute

Famed attorney Alan Dershowitz, holding what he said was a file folder containing checks, said as a gesture of good faith and an effort to resolve the longest-running Chancery case after nearly 10 years.
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New York Law Journal

Cadwalader Countersues, Seeking Unpaid Bills From Ex-Clients Who Alleged Legal Malpractice

Former clients Adam and Daniel Kaplan sued the firm and former Cadwalader partner Todd Blanche last year, alleging legal malpractice. Cadwalader and Blanche have called the suit "baseless."
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New York Law Journal

Attorney Fees; Untimely Tax Assessment Challenge: This Week in Scott Mollen's Realty Law Digest

Scott Mollen discusses "Stempeck v. Townhouse West 83rd," dealing with attorney fees, and "Coscia v. Town of Greenburgh," involving an untimely tax assessment challenge proceeding.
13 minute read

The Recorder

'Courts Have to Do Better': Juul MDL Judge Dings Diversity Deficits at Plaintiffs Firms

At a Monday hearing, U.S. District Judge William Orrick, in the Northern District of California, allowed up to $150 million in attorney fees to move forward but questioned the lack of diversity among the 62 plaintiffs firms in the Juul multidistrict litigation.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Juul Settlements Could Generate $150M in Fees: 'Everyone Undoubtedly Wishes the Pool Were Larger'

Plaintiffs' lawyers plan to ask a federal judge on Monday to approve as much as $150 million in fees tied to settlements with Juul Labs Inc. over the vaping epidemic.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Failure to Allege Civil Rights Violation Is Fatal to Attorney Fees Claim, Says Appellate Division

"Nowhere in the complaint or amended complaint did plaintiff refer to a violation of her civil rights under the New Jersey Constitution or the United States Constitution," the per curiam opinion said. "Additionally, neither the complaint nor the amended complaint included a demand for attorney's fees."
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Exploring the American Rule on Attorney Fees

The Appellate Division recently provided a forceful reminder to trial courts and trial bar of the specific limitations of the offer of judgment rule.
5 minute read

Law.com

Judge Rejects Quinn Emanuel's $1,700 Hourly Rate Request, Slashing Fees for Virginia Settlement by Nearly 80%

Some of the rates requested by Quinn Emanuel—$1,690 per hour for a lead partner or $1,385 per hour for associates—were unrealistic for the Richmond, Virginia, market in the present case, the court found.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Appellate Court Sends Attorney's Case to New Trial Court for Consideration in Legal-Fee Dispute

"The record bears no mention of the court's efforts to notify Shurkin of its pending sua sponte consideration, thus depriving Shurkin of his right to be notified—which inherently deprived him of the right to be heard on the matter," the per curiam opinion said. "We cannot endorse the trial court's 'swift disposition of the case at the expense of fairness and justice.'"
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Lawyers Are Watching as Attorney Fees Slashed Over 'Value-Added' Calculation

"The problem with plaintiff's value-added model is that this calculation does not necessarily bear any relation to the amount of work actually expended in the case between the time of the settlement rejection and judgment," read Fulton County State Court Judge John R. Mather's order.
9 minute read

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