(Volume 1, Issue 5) A United States District Judge recently reduced a fee request by over $973,000. The plaintiffs’ attorneys requested fees for expending approximately…
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The District Court of Massachusetts recently cut an attorneys’ fee request by 83%. In Joyce v. Town of Dennis, 2011 WL 2632148 (D.Mass.) , the…
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The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky has uncovered a massive legal overbilling scandal stretching back to 2006. Larry Zielke, originally with Pedley, Zielke, Gordinier & Pence…
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(Volume 1, Issue 4) The prevailing party in a constitutional claim is entitled to compensation of his attorneys’ fees and costs so long as he…
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July 11, 2011 - "In our experience, if such costs aren’t managed properly, they can inflate to anywhere between 20 and 40 percent over what…
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(Volume 1, Issue 3) A New Jersey court ruled on a matter in which the prevailing party was represented by multiple firms, each entitled to…
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May 11, 2011 - "What Paige is really attacking is an entire business model, the big-firm practice of hiring armies of associates and paying them…
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April 19, 2011 - "The chief executive and founder of Sterling Analytics, which analyzes legal fees, said there are 'too many attorneys on the case,…
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(Volume 1, Issue 2) A federal district court in Oregon was presented with the issue of whether an attorney’s practice of billing in quarter-hour increments…
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(Volume 1, Issue 1) When a party is successful in a Civil Rights Discrimination case, he is entitled to an award of his attorneys’ fees…
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