Petitioner filed a motion for attorneys’ fees and costs in the amount of $180,104.01 under the Vaccine Act, which permits an award of reasonable attorney’s…
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Plaintiff’s counsel was hired to perform an advocacy role for a class of plaintiffs composed of former Willowbrook State Developmental Center patients in N.Y.A.R.C., et…
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While many firms today seek to “go green” by reducing paper documents and recycling old files, one firm took this initiative too far. According to…
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Determining the impact of vague and block-billed entries was one of the main issues presented to the Federal District Court of Michigan in Trustees of…
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When determining the reasonableness of attorneys’ fees within a block billed line item, the Court looks to how detailed the line item description is and…
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In a noteworthy case from the last few years, the United States Supreme Court held that attorneys hired by the bankruptcy estate may not be…
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Block billing is almost an unavoidable issue in cases dealing with ascertaining appropriate attorneys’ fees. Some jurisdictions, as the one in Pierce v. Atl. Specialty…
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In Speciale vs Shrader Canada Limited, an Ontario Divisional court judge reinstated a decision to cut a bill for legal fees down from over $1…
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In National Council of La Raza, et al. v. Barbara K. Cegavske, the court accepted Defendants’ argument that Plaintiffs “over lawyered” the case through needless…
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In Dagostino v. Computer Credit, Inc., the plaintiff brought suit under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (the “FDCPA”). 2017 WL 776086 (E.D.N.Y. Feb. 28,…
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