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Chancery Explains Award of Attorneys’ Fees

The Delaware Court of Chancery explained the reasoning for a specific award of attorneys’ fees based on a post-trial decision earlier this year, highlighted on these pages, that di...

U.S. Considers New Six-Figure Fees Following Appellate Court Decision

Prevailing-Party Attorneys’ Fees Include Reasonable Paralegal Fees (And AI-Hallucinations Are Bad!)

Baker Botts Atty Seeks $3.4M In Fees After Defamation Suit

A Baker Botts LLP patent attorney has moved for almost $3.4 million in attorney fees and expenses in a defamation suit an inventor brought against her that was dismissed.

Fed. Circ. Approves $3.2M In Atty Fees In Diamond IP Case

The Federal Circuit on Thursday affirmed a $3.2 million award of attorney fees to Fenix Diamonds LLC from the Carnegie Institution of Washington and its bankrupt former patent lice...

Damages – Prevailing party denied attorney’s fees

Where the prevailing party in a breach of contract suit argued that it was entitled to recover its attorney’s fees, but it failed to show that the indemnity clause was […] The post...

Settlement Wipes Out Exceptional-Case Fee Award in Exceptional Fashion

CMBS trustee wins foreclosure but court guts its attorneys’ fee demand

Rates the servicer paid its lawyers did not match what the market charges

Appellate Court Affirms Attorney Fee Award Against Unit Owner Despite Court-Fee Waiver

Case Study: 4310-4322 N. Clarendon Condominium Association v. Klein 2026 IL App (1st) 252082 In 4310-4322 N. Clarendon Condominium Association v. Klein, a condominium association...

Diamond in the Rough: Infringement Theory Foreclosed by Claim Construction Supports $3.2M Fee Award

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed an award of more than $3.2 million in attorneys’ fees and non-taxable expenses, finding no abuse of discretion in the distr...

Carlton Fields Pushes To Demand Fees In Miss America Fight

Carlton Fields has urged a Florida federal court to adopt a magistrate judge's recommendation that the firm be allowed to intervene in a dispute involving its charging lien for unp...

Appellate Court Rejects Attorney's Bid for Referral Fee in $10M Case

Judge Debra Walker held that the "plain language" of the signed retainer agreement didn't include an explicit referral agreement between attorneys and was therefore unenforceable. ...

Tata Ordered To Pay $15M In Fees In Trade Secret Case

A Texas federal judge has ordered Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. to pay $15.3 million in attorney fees to Computer Sciences Corp., saying that amount accounts for a reasonable rate...

Yale, Biohaven Seek $23M Atty Fee After Trade Secrets Win

Yale University and Biohaven Therapeutics Ltd. have requested attorney fees topping $23.1 million, plus $2 million each in exemplary damages, after winning a $4 million trial verdi...

Chemical Co. Secures $1.25M In Fees In Trade Secrets Case

A chemical distributor was awarded nearly $1.25 million in attorney fees by a Seattle federal judge but was denied exemplary damages after winning $1.9 million in a trial against f...

Retainer, Co-Counsel Fee Agreements Valid in Post-Conviction Efforts, Federal Judge Says

"Gibson's criminal proceedings had long since concluded and he and his attorneys were pursuing post-conviction proceedings, namely the TIRC [Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Com...

Co. Ordered To Pay Dating Sites $821K Fees They're Owed

A patent-holding company has been ordered to pay about $821,000 in attorney fees and costs to eHarmony and corporate sibling The Meet Group after its patent infringement suits fail...

Netflix, Ramey Spar Over Patent Suit Atty Fees

Netflix and prolific patent attorney Bill Ramey have each made arguments for how much Ramey and his firm should be assessed in attorney fees in a patent infringement suit after a C...

Netflix Gets Atty Fees From Ramey For 'Bad Faith' Conduct

A California federal judge Monday refused to let intellectual property attorney Bill Ramey off the hook for paying Netflix's attorney fees, attributing nearly $1.4 million to the H...

Fed. Circ. Backs Atty Fees In 3D Motion Sensor Patent Case

The Federal Circuit on Tuesday turned down network testing company Viavi Solutions Inc.'s challenge to a lower court's decision ordering it to pay another company's attorney fees a...

Carlton Fields Can Fight For Fees In Miss America Case

A Florida federal judge has ruled that Carlton Fields can intervene in a dispute involving its charging lien for unpaid legal fees in a $500 million fight over the ownership of the...

Cigna Wins $1.8M In Fees After Payment Patent Fight

A Texas federal magistrate judge has awarded Cigna Corp. nearly $1.8 million in legal fees in a case where it was cleared of infringing a card payment patent, just days after he sa...

Lion King Composer vs. Comedian Dispute Leads to ~$40K Attorney Fee Award Against Composer

Look, there's an attorney fee award. Oh my god!

CAFC Affirms Fee Award Over Deficient Patent Pre-Suit Investigation

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a decision today in Viavi Solutions Inc. v. Platinum Optics Technology Inc., affirming a Northern District of Califo...