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Primarily news stories and digests that focus on legal fee disputes, both from a substantive perspective about how courts will interpret, but also focused on big firms and lawyers and figures embroiled in fee disputes.
By Jason Grant | January 31, 2018
IP boutique Springut Law's remaining claims against a telecommunications patent holding company and its late president, Gerald Weinberger, continue to be contested in the heated, three-and-a-half-year-old legal battle.
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By Jason Grant | January 30, 2018
An Appellate Division, First Department, panel ruled that the lawsuit launched by physician Alan Dubrow against his former lawyers at Herman & Beinin must go forward.
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By Robert Storace | January 29, 2018
An arbitrator has ruled that Jonathan Lake owes Morgan Stanley Smith Barney nearly $1 million that he borrowed but apparently did not pay back. A judge will sign off on the award.
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By Charles Toutant | January 26, 2018
The New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals must comply with the Open Public Records Act despite its status as a private, nonprofit group, a state appeals court ruled Friday in a published decision.
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Delaware Business Court Insider
By Tom McParland | January 24, 2018
The Delaware Court of Chancery on Tuesday denied a "novel" bid by a C&J Energy Services Inc. stockholder to recover $5 million in attorney fees from the estate of the oil and gas company's deceased CEO, saying the move would be unprecedented and inconsistent with Delaware law.
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By Amanda Bronstad | January 23, 2018
Plaintiffs lawyers are fighting accusations by an objector that their $38 million fee request in the Anthem data breach settlement was “outrageous on its face” and required a special master to investigate potential over-billing.
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By Lizzy McLellan | January 22, 2018
Even though the county ultimately prevailed, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said requiring disgorgement of attorney fees would have a chilling effect.
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By Law Journal Editorial Board | January 22, 2018
The time has come to abandon a one-size-fits-all approach.
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By Samantha Joseph | January 19, 2018
An ex-lawyer who was disbarred after the Florida Supreme Court found his faulty legal advice on marijuana "devastated" the lives of several clients…
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By Abraham J. Gafni | January 18, 2018
Perhaps no arbitration issue has been litigated more frequently in recent years than determining “arbitrability.” Repeatedly, courts have been called upon to decide whether they or the arbitrators have the authority to resolve particular aspects of a dispute.
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