Last July, in an entry titled Incentive Awards Ok, but Not Incentive Agreements, I commented on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in Rodriguez v. West Publishing Corp. In Rodriguez, the Ninth Circuit panel condemned the use incentive agreements in class actions. The incentive agreements were engagement agreements between the law firm and the named class representatives that called for the attorneys to seek [...]
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Fees, Fees, and More Fees
Posted in Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, tagged attorney fees, attorneys fees, class action blog, class action fees, fee award, fee petition on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In another I must be living under a rock moment, for the first time this evening I came across Octagon Publishing’s Class Action Attorney Fee Digest Blawg. The Blawg, which supplements Octagon’s subscription service, Class Action Attorney Fee Digest, focuses exclusively on orders, decisions, and trends in attorneys’ fee awards in class actions. The publication’s key contributor is Harvard Law Professor [...]
Can You Just “Double it and Add 30″ to Get to a Reasonable Fee Award?
Posted in Civil Rights Class Actions, Class Action Decisions, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged attorneys fees, class action attorneys fee, fee award, fee shifting, lodestar, Supreme Court, u.s. supreme court on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to SCOTUS Blog, the ABA Journal, and other sources (see the citations within Debra Cassens Weiss’s ABA Journal article), the U.S. Supreme Court has accepted certiorari in Perdue v. Kenny A., et al., Case No. 08-970. The appeal involves an attorneys fee award to attorneys who successfully prosecuted a class action on behalf of thousands of foster children in Georgia’s [...]
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