Lawyers for four Gloucester County supervisors “disregarded good billing judgment and went straight for the stars,” according to a motion filed Tuesday by substitute Commonwealth’s Attorney John “Jack” T. Randall.
Randall issued the motion in response to the attempt by the supervisors to collect $119,776.53 in attorney fees from the Gloucester County Citizens for Accountable Representation. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Attorney's fees'
Attorneys’ fees claim called “outrageous”
December 17th, 2008 · Comments Off · Attorney's fees
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Employer wins in whistleblower cases
December 5th, 2008 · Comments Off · 4th Circuit, Attorney's fees, Sarbanes-Oxley
Employers got some good news Dec. 3 when the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals released two Sarbanes-Oxley decisions that favored the businesses.
In the first case, Platone v. U.S. Dep’t of Labor, former airline official Stacy Platone appealed the Department of Labor’s reversal of her whistleblower award, one of the few whistleblower wins since SOX [...]
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Judge calls out court on lawyer’s fees
November 14th, 2008 · Comments Off · Attorney's fees, Court of Appeals, Custody
The Virginia Supreme Court’s remand of a grandparent custody case has raised questions about who gets to award attorney’s fees, according to four judges of the Court of Appeals.
In its Sept. 12 opinion in Lynchburg Division of Social Services v. Cook, the high court ordered the Court of Appeals to send the custody case back [...]
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Analysis of legal bills used to criticize school board
July 16th, 2008 · Comments Off · Attorney's fees, Schools
The school board in King George County has been defending itself in court against a claim that it improperly handled a student’s discipline appeal. The case has been followed closely by the local paper, The Journal Press. In this latest article about the controversy, the newspaper reviews the detailed entries on the bills [...]
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Former sheriff seeks attorneys fees
July 16th, 2008 · Comments Off · Attorney's fees, Contempt
Former Petersburg Sheriff George Epps says that he was vindicated by a 2007 Supreme Court of Virginia decision that overturned his contempt conviction and he wants the city government to pay his legal fees. As reported by The Progress-Index, Epps made his request to the City Council, but received no answer.
Epps was convicted of [...]
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Unpublished opinions: why lawyers care
July 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment · 4th Circuit, Attorney's fees, Plea Bargains, Real estate, Search and Seizure
Lawyers who follow the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals know the Richmond-based court is not generous with published opinions.
According to a cover story in the June 2008 ABA Law Journal, the court, which has been short-handed for years, issued the lowest percentage of published opinions of all federal circuits in 2006 – 6 percent [...]
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Employee’s lawyer must pay employer
June 13th, 2008 · Comments Off · 4th Circuit, Attorney's fees
The Gambler got it right: you got to know when to fold ’em.
A Vienna employment lawyer unfortunately got it wrong when he pursued a worthless contract case past the point of patience for the defendant former employer. A federal court has ordered the lawyer to pay $26,057 to the company he sued for “unreasonably and [...]
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File pass-off can’t pump fee award
April 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off · Attorney's fees, Discovery
As March Madness wanes, like a hoopster’s fadeaway jumper, indulge us please in one more basketball reference. We can’t let a good one get away.
Charlottesville’s U.S. Magistrate Judge B. Waugh Crigler already had decided to award fees to lawyers for Pacel Corporation in Calkins v. Pacel Corp. for its opponent’s violation of federal discovery rules [...]
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