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Damages – Fees awarded to party after prevailing on appeal

Where a party prevailed on appeal, it was awarded attorney’s fees. However the fee award was reduced for multiple reasons. Background Timothy G. Clemente seeks $180,240 in attorney...

Nevada Supreme Court Overrules Caselaw on Post-Trial Contingency Fee Awards

Ramey Takes Fight Against $162K Fee To Supreme Court

Prolific patent attorney William Ramey has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to look at a case in which his client was ordered to pay the attorney fees of a rival litigant after the cas...

Attorney Compensation: Ruling Takes a Bite Out of Class Counsel Fee Awards

The ruling closes off an avenue for class counsel to enhance their compensation for representing clients in particularly challenging cases.       

Employee Who Settled Qui Tam Action Receives Interest On Attorneys’ Fees From Time Of Entry Of Order

Thrower v. Academy Mortg. Corp., 172 F.4th 703 (9th Cir. 2026) Gwen Thrower was awarded attorneys’ fees, expenses, and costs in her False Claims Act action against Academy Mortgage...

Fed. Circ. Doubts $9M Atty Fees Without Dismissal Attempt

A Federal Circuit panel didn't seem swayed Thursday that ChromaDex's patent infringement suit against Elysium Health had any merit, but the judges struggled to understand why Elysi...

Netflix Wins $3M Atty Fees Over 'Objectively Baseless' IP Suit

A California federal judge granted Netflix Inc. $3 million in attorney fees on Monday, ruling that the plaintiff in a patent suit and his attorney knew that his claims of ownership...

Netflix Says 'Exceptional Misconduct' Merits $3M In Atty Fees

Netflix urged a California federal judge on Thursday to order a Finnish national and his former Ramey LLP attorney to pay $3 million in legal fees due to "exceptional misconduct" a...

Gibson Dunn Awarded $12M for Arizona Real Estate Verdict

The court overruled the defense's objections to the fee's reasonableness. Those objections were in part related to the contingency agreement the Gray companies entered into with Gi...

VANISHING ACT: TCPA Defendant Avoids Fees And Sanctions After Its Attorney Disappears

Sony Seeks Atty Fees After 'Bye Bye Bye' Suit Dropped

Sony Music Holdings Inc. has asked an Atlanta federal judge to order the artist behind NSYNC's "Bye Bye Bye" choreography to pay its attorney fees after he dropped Sony from a copy...

Tax Court Bars Above-the-Line Deduction for Fair Credit Reporting Act Legal Fees: Analyzing Eiler v. Commissioner

James Wendelin Eiler and Kathryn Ann Eiler, Deceased v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 167 T.C. No. 3, July 14, 2026 For tax practitioners managing the tax consequences of...

Fed. Circ. Seems Iffy On Reversing Atty Fees In Patent Case

The Federal Circuit didn't seem convinced Thursday morning that it should overturn a lower court's decision to make network testing company Viavi Solutions Inc. pay another company...

Judge Sanctions Barnes & Thornburg $172K as Tactics Backfire

Making the entire firm liable for the sanction was warranted because Barnes & Thornburg's general counsel approved the filing of the disqualification motion, the judge wrote.  ...

Toys R Us Seeks $11K In Atty Fees In Vape Shop TM Suit

Toys R Us is asking a Connecticut federal court to award it $11,442 in attorney fees following a trademark suit against vape store Vape R Us, saying it is entitled to reimbursement...

Nelly awarded over $67K to be paid by lawyer who filed ex-bandmate’s Country Grammar copyright suit

The ruling ordered the fees to be paid not by the plaintiff – but by the plaintiff's attorney, Precious Felder. Source

People's Trust wins coverage fight, loses part of its fee award

Winning the right to fees was the easy part - proving the amount is where it fell apart

Hoxie council votes to pay attorney for attorney fees

HOXIE — Several Hoxie City Council members on Tuesday said they believed council members should receive help from the city with paying attorney fees in the aftermath of a pair of l...

Yes, Even Celebrities Have To Pay Their Attorneys

No matter what the president does... The post Yes, Even Celebrities Have To Pay Their Attorneys appeared first on Above the Law.

Baker Donelson Wins $45K From Tenn. Firm Over AI Misuse

Tennessee personal injury firm Reaves Law Firm PLLC must pay more than $45,000 in attorney fees to Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC over Reaves Law's misuse of ar...

Filing Frivolity Against Nelly? Judge Saddles Attorney Suing ‘Country Grammar’ Rapper With a Heavy Fine

Ouch. The attorney who sued Nelly for allegedly excluding his former bandmates from credits for his wildly successful debut solo album Country Grammar has been ordered to pay the r...

Big Law Sues for Big Bucks in Collection Actions Against Ex-Clients, Law.com Radar Shows

Am Law 200 firms brought at least 17 new lawsuits last month as plaintiffs, most of them claiming unpaid legal fees.       

Pro-Se Attorneys and Judiciary Law 487

There are limits on when a Judiciary Law 487 claim applies, and Nimkoff v Waldbaum2026 NY Slip Op 04203 July 1, 2026 Appellate Division, Second Department holds that one of them i...

Federal Judge Denies Motion to Dismiss Lawsuit Over Law School Application Fees

Judge John F. Murphy previously granted the Law School Admission Council's motion to dismiss in April, but gave the plaintiff a chance to file an amended complaint in the case, whi...