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• Fifth Circuit Compels Arbitration of Attorney’s Fees Dispute Between Law Firm and Former Client

  
  Disputing — Authority: 125
  The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that an arbitration clause is enforceable notwithstanding that the parties had terminated their services contract. In Hall-Williams v. Law Office of Paul C. Miniclier, PLC , No. 09-30113 (5th Cir. Jan. 13, 2010), Carolyn Hall-Williams (Hall-Williams) is ...
  5 days ago

• Judge Rapped Over Order to Pay Class Action Attorney in Store Coupons

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 687
  Apparently figuring that what is considered reasonable reimbursement for winning clients in class actions is also fair pay for their lawyers, a California state-court judge ordered that a male attorney receive a structured stream of $10 gift cards from the defendant womens apparel retailer. However, the decision in ...
  6 days ago

• BP Plaintiffs Lawyer Accused of Failing to Pay $50K in Hotel Bills

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 687
  A California plaintiffs lawyer who represented 153 plaintiffs in the 2005 explosions at a BP refinery in Texas has been asked to explain expenses charged to 22 clients—and to disclose whether he charged them for almost $50,000 in unpaid hotel bills. Los Angeles lawyer Daniel Becerra provided a Galveston court with ...
  1 week ago

• Alaska Legal Miscellanea: Section 1983 Fees, and Alaska’s Public Records Act

  
  Alaska Employment Law — Authority: 123
  Section 1983 fee awards for nominal damages:  The 9th Circuit has affirmed an award of $136,000 in fees in a § 1983 federal civil rights suit (excessive force) where the plaintiff recovered only nominal damages, because the plaintiff sought only nominal damages and achieved a significant public result.  The panel ...
  1 week ago

• New York Supreme Grants Plaintiff Leave to Assert Consequential Damages in Amended Complaint and Denies Insurers Motion to Compel Appraisal

  
  Coverage Counsel — Authority: 419
  COMMERCIAL PROPERTY – BI-ECONOMY – CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES – ATTORNEYS FEES – DISCOVERY – ATTORNEY-CLIENT AND ATTORNEY WORK PRODUCT PRIVILEGES – APPRAISAL De Martino v. Harleysville Worcester Ins. Co. (Sup. Ct., New York Co., decided 1/21/2010) On June 20, 2006, plaintiffs ...
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• Pur$e String Proponents

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 687
  It’s comforting to know that as U.S. citizens we’re guaranteed our day in (traffic) court to explain how we were just-having-a-really-bad-day-and-can’t-we-just-kind-of-consider-this-a-warning. But it’s actually quite intimidating for the average person once he or she gets there.
  1 week ago

• Court Awards Attorneys Fees in RLUIPA Case But Notes that Political and Media Related Fees for Services Provided by Becket Fund Are Not Properly Part of Award

  
  LAW OF THE LAND — Authority: 130
  Following a jury trial that rendered a verdict in favor of Rocky Mountain Christian Church against Boulder County, but where the jury did not award damages to the Church, the trial judge ordered that the County approve the Church’s special use application within 45 days of the order. The Church now seeks legal ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ninth Circuit Affirms Attorneys Fees Award Against Injunction Violator

  
  Seattle Trademark Lawyer — Authority: 462
  On Jan. 11, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the Central District of California’s award of $29,730 in attorney’s fees to plaintiff RRLH, Inc., stemming from defendant Hendrick Barto’s violation of the court’s order prohibiting him from using plaintiff’s LIESURE WORLD trademark. Mr. Barto did business as ...
  2 weeks ago

• Managing Partners More Confident, Expect Increased Legal Work

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 687
  Managing partners are becoming more confident about the economic outlook for their law firms. A “confidence index” developed by Citi Private Bank Law Watch shows that managing partners haven’t been this confident since 2007, according to the Legal Intelligencer and the Wall Street Journal Law Blog. The index ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tenn. High Court’s Divorce Ruling Costs Class Action Lawyer $6.8M

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 687
  Tennessee class action lawyer Gordon Ball will have to give his former spouse an extra $6.8 million because of a ruling by the Tennessee Supreme Court on the division of property acquired after a divorce filing. Ball was awarded a $17 million fee after his wife, Marn Suzanne Larsen-Ball, filed for divorce in January ...
  2 weeks ago

• Insureds Deceptive Acts and Practices Claim Against Their Homeowners Insurer Survives Motion to Dismiss. Broad Discovery Ordered.

  
  Coverage Counsel — Authority: 419
  HOMEOWNERS – INSUREDS OBLIGATION TO PROTECT INSURERS SUBROGATION RIGHTS – GENERAL BUSINESS LAW § 349 – PUNITIVE DAMAGES – ATTORNEYS FEES – DISCOVERY Wilner v. Allstate Ins. Co. (2nd Dept., decided 1/12/2010) New York property insurers better sit up and pay attention to this decision.  In ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ethics Ruling Finds $2M Attorney Fee Excessive in Class Action Aiding 7 People

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 687
  The founding partner of a Florida law firm violated legal ethics rules by arranging a $7 million class action settlement on behalf of seven individuals rather than all Miami taxpayers, a referee in a Florida Bar attorney disciplinary case has determined. And Henry Adorno of Adorno & Yoss also breached his duty to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Judges Speaking Out on Unbundling Legal Services

  
  Sam Hasler's Indiana Divorce & Family Law Blog — Authority: 428
  The New York Times published A Nation of Do-It-Yourself Lawyers written by judges on the subject of unbundling legal services. The judges describe what is meant by unbundled legal services and why it is a good thing in these paragraphs: But this is only a beginning. It is essential that we promote other ...
  4 weeks ago

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