MoFo Accused of Charging ‘Staggering’ Attorney Fees
A suit filed by a former client claims Morrison & Foerster charged a staggering $4.8 million in attorney fees for its defense in a patent infringement suit, while failing to provide adequate representation.
The suit was filed by Ecast Inc., an Internet digital entertainment company, the Daily Journal reports (sub. req.).
Also named in the suit are two former MoFo lawyers who left the firm in 2007, Gerald Dodson and Erica Wilson. Ecast says the defendants failed to tell the company about cheaper legal strategies and did not uphold commitments on which lawyers would represent it in court.
Ecast later paid $2.65 million to new lawyers who took over the case. The suit says the $4.8 million in fees charged by MoFo weren’t justified, according to the story. “Ecast alleges that this staggering amount of legal fees is an example of unconscionable, abusive and unfettered expenditure of attorneys fees,” the suit says.
