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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 Robert C. Scheinfeld | July 25, 2017
Patent and Trademark Law columnist Robert C. Scheinfeld reviews the Federal Circuit's recent examination of three cases to determine whether each was exceptional such that an award of attorney fees was merited in the wake of a 2014 Supreme Court decision that the Federal Circuit's standard for an exceptional case was too rigorous.
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By Jason Grant | July 14, 2017
An upstate woman suing Bernard Kerik, claiming she wasn't paid for helping the former New York City police commissioner write his 2015 memoir, is now facing a nearly $44,000 retaining lien granted to her ex-lawyers.
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By Lizzy McLellan | July 5, 2017
A jury has awarded $180,000, including punitive damages, to a former associate of Ronald A. Blumfield P.C., who claimed the firm failed to pay him origination fees promised in his employment agreement.
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By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | July 3, 2017
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By Lizzy McLellan | June 28, 2017
Lamb McErlane has been ordered to disgorge millions in estate fees after billing nearly $6 million to the estate of Sir John Thouron. The firm is appealing the adjudication, which said the firm breached its fiduciary duty to the estate.
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By B. Colby Hamilton | June 27, 2017
Attorney fees are too high in the $1.34 billion final distribution agreement with Tremont Group Holdings Inc., Bernie Madoff's second-largest feeder fund that lost billions in the Ponzi scheme collapse, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said.
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By Ross Todd | June 27, 2017
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria wrote that the state's efforts to get information about IMDb's lobbying and amici campaigns were "harassing."
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By John Council | June 19, 2017
The attorneys claimed they were entitled to take a piece of their client's business under a contingent fee agreement.
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By Charles Toutant | June 13, 2017
A federal judge in Camden has tossed some claims for malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty against Archer & Greiner and two of its lawyers arising from their representation of the former general counsel of a vacation time-share company.
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By Max Mitchell | June 8, 2017
The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that some attorneys fear may have a "chilling effect" on lawyers representing injured workers.
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