Legal Costs Blog

In a noteworthy case from the last few years, the United States Supreme Court held that attorneys hired by the bankruptcy estate may not be…

Block billing is almost an unavoidable issue in cases dealing with ascertaining appropriate attorneys’ fees. Some jurisdictions, as the one in Pierce v. Atl. Specialty…

In National Council of La Raza, et al. v. Barbara K. Cegavske, the court accepted Defendants’ argument that Plaintiffs “over lawyered” the case through needless…