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23 Feb 2023, 6:00 am
Addressing CLU's request for an award of attorney's fees and costs, the Appellate Division opined that "as this proceeding at this stage concerns a novel interpretation of legislation that both repealed a statute and enacted new provisions to a longstanding statutory scheme", it cannot be said that DOC had no reasonable basis for denying access to the records at issue. * See Public Officers Law §89(2), concerning personal privacy exceptions… [read post]
14 Mar 2019, 3:40 pm
” The Federal Circuit “noted that a statute awarding attorneys’ fees to a losing party would represent ‘a particularly unusual deviation from the American Rule” because “[m]ost fee-shifting provisions permit a court to award attorney’s fees only to a prevailing party, a substantially prevailing party, or a successful litigant. [read post]
3 Nov 2009, 9:19 pm
The mini-full-court held, by the thinnest of margins (six-to-five), that the district court erred as a matter of law (and fact) by awarding lawyers less (a lot less) than the 25 percent contingent fee their clients agreed to pay them for recovering Social Security payments from a stingy federal government. [read post]
3 May 2018, 3:00 am
Petitioners also requested attorney's fees. [read post]
22 Nov 2024, 6:15 am
Provide ad hoc advice to partners and other fee earners as required. [read post]
Attorney General Madigan Brings Consumer Fraud Claims Against Student Loan Debt Settlement Companies
25 Aug 2014, 12:41 pm
These are companies that tell borrowers that they will negotiate lower monthly fees for the borrower in exchange for a hefty upfront fee. [read post]
20 Dec 2012, 12:01 pm
A New York Estate Litigation Lawyer said that defendants filed a cross motion for summary judgment and for an award of an attorney's fee pursuant to the Association's bylaws and "Declaration of Restrictions, Covenants, and Easements. [read post]
28 Dec 2012, 10:52 am
A New York Estate Litigation Lawyer said that defendants filed a cross motion for summary judgment and for an award of an attorney's fee pursuant to the Association's bylaws and "Declaration of Restrictions, Covenants, and Easements. [read post]
24 Apr 2009, 4:43 am
Assuming a 40% contingent fee agreement, a $50 million cap results in a $20 million cap on the attorney's fees. [read post]
1 Dec 2023, 3:31 am
Salus v Berke 2023 NY Slip Op 06183 Decided on November 30, 2023 Appellate Division, Third Department is a case on the correct application of Judiciary Law 487 claims that an attorney took too much of a fee in a contingent representation. [read post]
16 Jun 2012, 6:33 am
Thus, if one attorney’s bill represents twenty-five percent of all the attorney fees properly due, owing and unpaid, then that attorney is entitled to a charging lien on twenty-five percent of the viable assets in the judgment awarded the client. [read post]
20 May 2008, 5:08 am
The Supreme Court also rejected a defense challenge based on whether, as a matter of law, ChartOne was statutorily prohibited from charging a postage fee. [read post]
11 May 2017, 5:30 am
Crucially, the statutes shift the burden to the plaintiff to demonstrate some factual merit to the case and then, assuming the motion to dismiss is successful, mandate an award of attorneys' fees to a defendant.Trade secrets lawsuits are not thought to be the foreground for anti-SLAPP suits. [read post]
28 Jan 2016, 2:59 pm
Therefore, the settlement was not fair or reasonable to Trulia’s stockholders, the court rejected the settlement, and no attorneys’ fees were awarded. [read post]
28 Jan 2016, 2:59 pm
Therefore, the settlement was not fair or reasonable to Trulia’s stockholders, the court rejected the settlement, and no attorneys’ fees were awarded. [read post]
2 May 2015, 10:24 am
ROYAL BEACH & GOLF RESORTS, LLC, Respondent. 1st District.Attorney's fees -- Prevailing party -- Action for unpaid wages -- Award of prevailing party attorney's fees in action for unpaid wages is discretionary rather than mandatory -- Trial court did not abuse discretion in denying award of attorney's fees to plaintiff in her action for unpaid bonuses where plaintiff prevailed on some of her claims, and defendant… [read post]
3 Oct 2014, 1:27 pm
” Accordingly, Judge Cogan reduced the fee award by substantially cutting the attorney’s hourly rate. [read post]
5 Sep 2016, 5:30 am
Until the legislature addresses this decision, attorney fees will be evaluated under the “reasonable” award standard articulated in the Murray v. [read post]
25 Jul 2024, 12:03 pm
Back then, a few of us, including me, warned that it was only a matter of time before excessive fee cases went downmarket, so to speak, resulting in the routine filing of suits against small plans or, as here, against larger plans but in pursuit of relatively small settlement amounts and attorney fee awards. [read post]
15 Mar 2015, 9:01 pm
The court upheld Justice McDermott’s equitable distribution and maintenance rulings, and remitted the matter as to counsel and expert fees. [read post]
