A federal judge has found that two law firms were seeking excessive and unreasonable fees in a 2007 case and slashed their fee request by about $900,000.
Securities class action law firm Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins is among the plaintiffs law firms awarded a record $688 million in fees in Enron shareholder litigation.
A federal appeals court has ruled the doctrine of equitable mootness does not protect $500,000 in legal fees paid to Dallas-based Winstead for work it performed in a Chapter 11…
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is being represented by an Anchorage lawyer in a probe into the firing of Alaska’s public safety commissioner.
Employment and professional liability lawyer Thomas…
Updated: A former defense lawyer for beleagered Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who himself is an attorney, has sued over an allegedly unpaid legal bill of nearly $80,000.
A federal appeals court has ordered a trial judge to award Morrison & Foerster reasonable attorney fees for its work in a civil rights case and overturned a sanction against…
In a unusually speedy resolution of a libel suit that may serve as a model for others, author Salman Rushdie received a public apology from a defendant yesterday in London’s…
Updated: The New York lawyer whose multiple employment sparked a statewide pension probe has been ordered to repay nearly $84,000 in benefits. Meanwhile, another New York lawyer has been told…
A New York judge has approved a deal that allows former securities class action lawyer Melvyn Weiss to keep future fees from some cases he worked on at his former…
A legal bill for a divorce described as “quite stunningly enormous” by an executive member of the Canadian Bar Association has been upheld by the British Columbia Court of Appeal.
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