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		<title>Fees Reduced for Duplicate Work&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/08/fees-reduced-for-duplicate-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 16:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of defendant AOL’s $5 million offer to settle class claims by AOL members who allege defendant violated electronic privacy laws by releasing for download 20 million search queries conducted by people using over 600,000 AOL screen names, the Alexandria U.S. District Court declines to award fees in the amount requested by class [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court’s Fee Award Less than ‘Laffey Matrix’&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/09/10/courts-fee-award-less-than-laffey-matrix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge Rebecca Beach Smith]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawyers based in Washington D.C. who won plaintiff Project Vote’s suit seeking expanded access to voter registration records, are not entitled to attorney’s fees based on their projected hourly rates ranging from $374 for associates up to $734 for partners, and the Norfolk U.S. District Court instead orders hourly fees ranging from $225 for associates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FLSA Settlement Upheld for 81-Percent Recovery&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/07/12/flsa-settlement-upheld-for-81-percent-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Law]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge James C. Cacheris]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Alexandria U.S. District Court grants the parties’ motion to approve settlement of plaintiffs’ suit for additional pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The proposed settlement requires defendants to pay plaintiffs $6,500 each to resolve all claims raised in this lawsuit. Plaintiffs raise essentially three different claims: that certain payroll practices employed by defendants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawyer Gets Fees for Support Enforcement&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/04/17/lawyer-gets-fees-for-support-enforcement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Gerald Bruce Lee]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A defendant who agreed to sponsor his mother as an immigrant from Rwanda with his I-864 Affidavit of Support is ordered to pay $10,153 to make good on that promise after his mother suffered a stroke and was hospitalized before she died, and the Alexandria U.S. District Court awards the guardian who sued to enforce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attorney’s Fees Awarded at NoVa Rates&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/02/29/attorney%e2%80%99s-fees-awarded-at-nova-rates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Civil Procedure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge James C. Cacheris]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Alexandria U.S. District Court awards defendant lender $20,000 in attorney’s fees that plaintiff borrower will have to pay should he bring a new lawsuit against defendant, after determining defendant was entitled to reasonable attorney’s fees for defendant’s costs for summary judgment and for plaintiff’s voluntary dismissal under Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(a)(2). Recent decisions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Important Opinions 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Rodriguez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Important Opinions of 2012 The “Important Opinions” that appear each week on the front page of Virginia Lawyers Weekly are those chosen by our editors as the most likely to impact law practice or a given subject area of law. Below is a listing, arranged by month, of the most Important Opinions of 2012. Subject [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fees Awarded After Survey of NoVa Fees&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/07/11/fees-awarded-after-survey-of-nova-fees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Law]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge James C. Cacheris]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent cases awarding attorney’s fees to lawyers in Northern Virginia, a range of analyses shows fees as high as $709 per hour under the Adjusted Laffey Matrix for lawyers with the years of experience of those who won this Miller Act contract case, and the Alexandria U.S. District Court approves the more modest $295 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trendspotting 2011&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/02/14/trendspotting-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Lawyers Weekly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virginia Lawyers Weekly is pleased to present our annual exercise in crystal-balling and tea-leaf parsing, our Trendspotting issue. We identified five different areas of interest – The Marketplace, Law Practice, The Courts, Technology and Case Law. Each day last week, one of our editors took a topic and, in a piece published on our website, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retirees Win Attorney’s Fees on ERISA &amp; LMRA Claims&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/02/01/retirees-win-attorney%e2%80%99s-fees-on-erisa-lmra-claims/</link>
		<comments>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/02/01/retirees-win-attorney%e2%80%99s-fees-on-erisa-lmra-claims/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Law]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge Pamela Meade Sargent]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plaintiffs who won their suit alleging defendants could not unilaterally terminate or modify retiree healthcare benefits under certain collective bargaining agreements are entitled to attorneys’ fees of $882,236.31, according to a recommendation from a magistrate judge of the Abingdon U.S. District Court. Plaintiffs seek an award of attorney’s fees and expenses in the amount of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employment &#8211; ERISA &#8211; Health Insurance &#8211; Attorney’s Fees&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2010/09/14/employment-erisa-health-insurance-attorney%e2%80%99s-fees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge Liam O'Grady]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A woman who won her lawsuit alleging her employer’s denial of health insurance violated ERISA’s anti-retaliation provision under 29 U.S.C. § 1140 and the Virginia Human Rights Act, wins attorney’s fees of $76,673 for the win and $33,140 for sanctions arising from defendant employer’s denial of health care coverage because of her sex; an Alexandria [...]]]></description>
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