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Byline: Chris Vetter CHIPPEWA FALLS The Chippewa County Board rejected a request Tuesday to pay the attorney fees that Sheriff Travis Hakes accrued during an investigation over the past year. [...]

BANK OF CHINA CO., LTD. JINING BRANCH, China has invited tenders for Bank of China Jining Branch for Private Promotion Lawyer Fees. Tender Notice No: SDQY-2024-026 Deadline: September 4, 2024 [...]

Byline: Pat Murphy The American Bar Association's new guidance on the ethical use of generative artificial intelligence tools makes the case that like the use of email and word processing [...]

August 17, 2024 On July 11, 2024, Southern District of Texas Judge Lee H. Rosenthal ruled a case against Volkswagen exceptional, holding plaintiff VDPP LLC and its counsel, Ramey LLP, [...]

Affirming the application of the fair use defense to copyright infringement, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit determined that a district court's sua sponte invocation of a [...]

With limited exceptions, copyright owners cannot sue to enforce their statutory rights against plagiarists until they have obtained a federal copyright registration. On July 22, 2024, the United States Copyright [...]

Introduction 'Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?'1 So asked the hobbit Sam Gamgee of the wizard Gandalf in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a district court decision awarding attorneys' fees, finding that the district court abused its discretion by failing to [...]

In California, although the prevailing rule is that each party in litigation must cover their own fees and costs, a litigant can be awarded reasonable attorney's fees and costs if [...]

Oregon's Court of Appeals ruled inTrapp v. Hodgesthat a plaintiff was entitled to seek attorneys' fees after trial because two commas made a settlement offer ambiguous. Background The case concerned [...]

In a recent news release, the IRS announced that it intends to deny 'tens of thousands' of ERC refund claims while processing others 'at a dramatically slower pace than . [...]

Byline: Laura Brown The Minnesota Supreme Court has concluded that attorney fee awards in an eminent domain proceeding are not restricted to the amount specified in the landowner's attorney-contingent fee [...]

Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Where prevailing parties argued that they were 'entitled' to appellate attorney's fees under Rule 1:1A, because they were awarded fees in the circuit court, their argument [...]

Byline: Nick Hurston Prevailing parties aren't entitled to appellate attorneys' fees, even if they were awarded fees by the circuit court, because Virginia Supreme Court Rule 1:1A doesn't amount to [...]

Byline: Laura Brown In an issue of first impression for the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a three-judge panel considered whether the U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International [...]

Byline: Kelly Caplan The Michigan Supreme Court has denied leave in a dispute over capped attorneys' fees. The justices left intact a published 2-1 Court of Appeals decision that said [...]

Byline: Eric T. Berkman So-called 'seller' fees that buyers' attorneys recently have been adding to settlement statements in real estate closings run afoul of professional ethics rules, the Rhode Island [...]

May 27, 2024 Patent litigation is typically quite an expensive proposition, particularly since parties must generally pay their own attorney fees. That said, district courts may award fees to the [...]

Key Takeaways The cost of a lawyer depends on the extent of expertise, experience, and reputation of the lawyer, as well as the simplicity or complexity and stage of the [...]

The attorney-client privilege is touted as one of the strongest privileges in litigation. Codified in Evidence Code, section 954, the purpose of the attorney-client privilege is to safeguard the confidential [...]

Berlin, Germany: The German Federal Bar Association (BRAK) has issued the following news release: The Federal Ministry of Justice has presented the draft bill for an increase in legal fees [...]

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions 1. ZIRCON CORP. v. ITC (2022-1649, 05/08/2024) (Lourie, Bryson, and Stark) Bryson, J. The Court affirmed the Commission's determination regarding the domestic industry requirement [...]

In recent years, a substantial number of 'Schedule A' trademark infringement cases have been filed in the Northern District of Illinois. In such a case, the trademark owner may file [...]

This case addresses the proper standard for an appeal of a discretionary decision by a successor judge as well as requests for attorneys' fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 and [...]

This is part of a series of articles discussing recent orders of interest issued in patent cases by the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. In ACQIS, [...]

Byline: Pat Murphy A federal judge in Boston has put a Providence attorney on notice that his billing records will come under strict scrutiny the next time he files a [...]

Byline: Michigan Lawyers Weekly Staff Where a settlement agreement has been reached in a suit over the purchase of a defective vehicle, fees in the amount of $12,241.90 should be [...]

Byline: Michigan Lawyers Weekly Staff Where $26,967.17 in reasonable attorney fees and costs were awarded in a suit over a purchase and sale agreement, a remand must be ordered for [...]

Byline: Nick Hurston After a defendant defeated the plaintiff's claims and prevailed on her own, the Eastern District of Virginia rejected arguments that her attorneys' block billing practices inhibited the [...]

Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Where appellants prevailed on some of their claims after a remand from the Virginia Supreme Court, the trial court incorrectly reduced their attorney fee award because [...]