Sentences with phrase «fee requests»

Corporations and relocation companies aren't the only source of fee requests.

We discuss with you the prospect of obtaining attorney fee orders and defending attorney fee requests by your spouse or other parent.

The district judge also properly reduced the lodestar fee requests as follows: 20 % for recreation of time entries; $ 32,470 for vague time entries; $ 4,880.73 for lack of proper substantiation; $ 50,721 for clerical tasks; and $ 25,827.50 for excessive billing.

Panelists discuss recent class action fee decisions that focus on contract attorneys, cy pres awards, preparing fee requests and strategies for dealing with professional objectors.

(But Acacia did successfully defend against four other fee requests.)

The firms fear the rising number of fixed - fee requests will hit their profitability and force them to make permanent adjustments in pricing practice, according to Thomson Reuters Legal annual research among finance directors at the top 100 UK law firms.

Inflated or excessive fee requests provide an opportunity for a trial judge to deny the request altogether or make substantial reductions.

As we have observed before, federal courts generally require more detailed substantiation in support of fee requests and require district judges to explain their fees awards with some specificity.

«Judge Won't Let Merck Stay In Its Glass House and Throw Stones at Plaintiffs» Fee Requests Main Do Calif.'s ADA Laws Lead to Increased Access or Litigation Abuse?»

Fee requests filed by Proskauer Rose and legacy Dewey & LeBoeuf in the administration of derivatives broker MF Global have been labelled «excessive» in a US court.

Major outlays for the money are salary adjustments, the move to Milan Street, and fees requested by the Orleans Parish School Board for ongoing litigation — though board member Greg Thompson said his opinion is that the school is not responsible for those legal fees.

All fees requested from families will be communicated to families as early as possible, and a clear waiver process will be made available to ensure no undue economic hardship is caused by student fees.

Every list (including Snickslist) has the potential to get your book farther than you expected, and so it's almost always worth it to reduce the price of your book and pay the fees requested.

The fee requested by the app stores can be quite heavy.

The 35 - dollar fee requested by the clinic (and waived if it is a burden) includes tests, vaccinations, and anything else our animal welfare veterinarian and staff can do for the health of the animals.

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Yesterday evening, the Competitive Enterprise Institute's (CEI) Center for Class Action Fairness objected on behalf of a class member to an unfair settlement and an excessive attorneys» fees request in In re Petrobras Securities Litigation, pending before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

That said, in proceedings supervised by the court and particularly where the court is asked to give its imprimatur to the legal fees requested for counsel by its court officer, the court must ensure that the compensation sought is indeed fair and reasonable.

Noting that would add up to 67 percent of the estate's total value, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court made no bones about its opinion on the fee request, saying that it represented «unnecessary lawyering.»

But the court did not let go of the matter without first letting the litigants know its distaste for the fees requested.

But without knowing what the actual outcome would be had the case gone to trial, a fee request of $ 11,000 is difficult to justify.

The trial court denied the fee request, finding neither side «prevailed.»

At the end of the opinion, the appellate court dealt with the argument that the application of the privilege to billing records would «wreak havoc» on the procedures for submitting substantiation in support of a fee request.

-- authored by Circuit Judge Hurwitz [majority decision] and concurring opinion by Circuit Judge Reinhardt; discussed in our Oct. 10, 2015 post: District court in Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act case which substantially reduced fee request was reversed based upon its reliance on inapt practice area hourly rates, upon its discounts for plaintiff's attorneys not delegating tasks to associates given that only small firms prosecuted these type of cases, and upon its use of stale prior fee awards involving fee claimant's attorneys.

Feb. 29, 2016)-- authored by Acting Presiding Justice Robie; discussed in our Mar. 1, 2016 post: 70 % across - the - board fee reduction by trial judge from fee request reversed because such a broad brush decrease required a more nuanced approach and more specific explanation of the reduction; trial judge allowed to «cross check» reasonableness of prevailing party's fee request based on the fees expended by the opposing party in proper situations.

To avoid disclosing how much it has spent on legal fees, Merck has agreed to drop some of its objections to plaintiffs» fee request.

According to AP, eight Iowans have filed letters with the court opposing the fee request.

New Jersey Judge Ellen Higbee has taken an unusual approach to Merck's objections to the Vioxx plaintiffs lawyers» fee request, according to this article, Merck Drops Some Objections to Vioxx Plaintiffs» Fee Request (AP 11/13/06).

The fee request comes from lawyers Roxanne Conlin of Des Moines and Richard M. Hagstrom of Minneapolis, who settled the case in April for $ 179.95 million, but not before three trips to the Iowa Supreme Court and some seven years of litigation.

Unfortunately for a marginally winning plaintiff below, the former — the zilch / nada — option was seized by the trial judge and affirmed by the appellate court on review in connection with an attorney's fees request.

However, plaintiff appealed because her initial fee request was $ 526,634.50 plus additional «fees on fees» of $ 60.060.

Because owner only sought fees under contract - based issues, Santisas governed — the negligence claim had no fee request and was actually a contract claim in «wolves» clothing».

As Mauro writes, the injunction was all she wanted from her lawsuit, but her attorney fee request exposed a Catch - 22 in the law.

Gura called the fee request reasonable, citing his efficiency and his overall success in the case.

For those who haven't followed this story, back in December, a group of survivors filed an opposition to Neubourne's fee request, arguing that he had agreed to handle the post-settlement matters pro bono.

The trial judge granted the fee request, but awarded only $ 28,350.08, the exact amount it determined car buyer incurred before the service of Ford's initial 998 offer, based on the notion that Ford's second, accepted offer was indistinguishable from its initial offer such that the intervening time was unnecessary.

• The district court did not scrutinize the proposed settlement's «clear - sailing clause,» in which RadioShack agreed not to contest class counsel's fee request.

Just as salient, ex-client suffered real prejudice from the amendment: client had to meet much different claims, had no ability to obtain discovery on the different claims (especially about the reasonableness of a much larger fee request), and had no ability to perform legal research on the validity of the retainer provision being relied upon in the amendment.

In the second case, former employee won a $ 1.2 million retaliation verdict against school district, but the trial judge denied employee's fee request of $ 791,750 under Labor Code section 218.5 (a) against the school district.

The lower court also failed to award some costs which were included in the fee request.

Proposed 2016 Formal Ethics Opinion 1: Contesting Opposing Counsel's Fee Request to Industrial Commission

Plaintiff in a more recent class action says class members should receive refunds from Massage Envy, while a Denver attorney, labeled a «serial objector» by lawyers seeking millions, says their fee request is too high.

Here, Prevailing Party Sought CCP § 128.5 Sanctions, Such That Fee Request Proper In Responding Papers — No Notice Of Motion Under Other Provisions Required.

No separate notice of motion needed to be brought under a different statutory provision given that the defendant brought a fee request under a provision saying it could be raised through opposition papers.

To account for those issues, Leon reduced McKesson's fee request of $ 11 million by 10 percent, awarding around $ 10 million.

Although a different judge decided a fee request than the judge presiding over germane matters, the Murrells failed to cite authority as to why de novo review was warranted under the circumstances The trial court even apportioned out noncompensable work from compensable work, with the Murrells failing to pinpoint what aspects of the apportionment were wrong.

Although the next case could be viewed as just a simple abuse of discretion case, it actually discusses some interesting tensions between federal and state cases on the specificity of reasoning that must be given by a trial judge when ruling on an attorney's fees request.

If a basis arises mid-lawsuit, you may need to amend the pleading or reference the fee request in a midcase motion.

This appeal involved a lower court's decision to deny dueling attorney's fees requests from each side, under a Nevada fee - shifting statute that is different from California statute and more akin to CCP § 128.7 / older § 128.5 sanctions provisions.

However, the trial court denied plaintiff's fee request.