It also did not matter that plaintiff had nixed an earlier settlement offer with respect to
amount of fees ultimately decided at the trial court level.
Not exact matches
The
amount includes
fees for all legal work, including the
ultimately unsuccessful defense
of the 2015 airport laws against litigation brought by a coalition
of aviation groups.
These
fees generally decrease the
amount of money and property that will
ultimately pass to the beneficiaries
of the estate.
However, in an effort to boost the yield
of the MIP and thereby garner more management
fees for itself, Fidelity, before the period at issue in the lawsuit, engaged in an imprudent and
ultimately unsuccessful investment strategy by, among other things, causing large
amounts of the MIP's assets to be held in various forms
of securitized debt.
Their theory goes like this: Homeowners install solar panels, which reduces the
amount of electricity they buy from the electric utility, thereby reducing the
amount of fees that customers pay for grid maintenance, which then causes the utility to raise rates and,
ultimately, encourages more and more customers to go solar which... causes rates to soar.
There has also been the question whether a plaintiff - offeree should be able to recover attorney
fees after the offer was made if he or she
ultimately recovers something less than the
amount of the offer.
The starting point for the Court's assessment
of a «fair
fee» remains the parties» agreement, but the dollar
amount ultimately charged must not be so disproportionate to the work done as to impugn the integrity
of the legal profession.
Boyer v. Werner (238 A.D. 2d 853)- plaintiff broker seeks commission due from defendant broker for referral
of purchaser for golf course property; purchaser
ultimately purchases golf course property plus second golf course; plaintiff broker seeks commission for referral
fee for purchase
of both golf courses; summary judgment granted as to the issue
of defendant broker's liability in relation to the sale
of the first golf course only; issue
of fact exists as to referral
of purchaser for second golf course and as to the
amount of the commission split due (see also, Werner v. Katal Country Club [234 A.D. 2d 659]-RRB-.