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Primarily news stories and digests that focus on legal fee disputes, both from a substantive perspective about how courts will interpret, but also focused on big firms and lawyers and figures embroiled in fee disputes.
By Marianna Wharry | February 20, 2024
"In recommending disbarment, the Commission asserted that the scope and magnitude of Doud's ethical failures were 'unequaled in the Commission's collective experience,' and this case proved the most egregious and extensive trust violation and misappropriation/commingling case to ever come before it," the order said.
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By Amanda Bronstad | February 16, 2024
The fee committee, which is comprised of the three lead plaintiffs' firms in the Roundup multidistrict litigation, allocated 81% to themselves, but three firms objected to their allocations.
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By Allison Dunn | February 14, 2024
State and federal trial courts have split on whether punitive damages are available for contract claims outside of the insurance context, according to a recent ruling from U.S. District Judge Michael Shea of the District of Connecticut.
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By Mason Lawlor | February 13, 2024
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By Amanda Bronstad | February 12, 2024
At least five plaintiffs' firms, including Wisner Baum, which won verdicts of $289 million and $2 billion in 2018 and 2019, are objecting to the allocation of common benefit fees in the Roundup multidistrict litigation.
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By Michael A. Mora | February 2, 2024
"These new lawyers are integrating their N.Y. rates into the market and increasing the rates, but I don't think that the rates charged for local work are increasing at the same pace," attorney fees expert Edward Mullins, a partner at Reed Smith, said about Miami's high rates.
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By Allison Dunn | January 26, 2024
Based on his hours in the classroom, the adjunct professor earned $75 per hour for teaching the banking law course, and approximately $102 per hour for the second course—rates "far exceeding" Maine's minimum wage and salary-basis requirement in Section 663(3)K, the court determined.
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By Michael A. Mora | January 25, 2024
The lower court judge held that a $4,000 hourly rate "shocks the undersigned's conscience."
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By Scott Mollen | January 23, 2024
Scott Mollen discusses "Universal Construction, Inc. v. Ramza," "Axos Bank v. Ottomanelli," and "Omega Mkt. v. NYC Dep't of Environmental Protection.
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By Michael A. Mora | January 19, 2024
"It's not a matter of if; it's just a matter of when the Supreme Court will take one of these cases and strike them down nationally," said Mathew Staver, chairman of Liberty Counsel.
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