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Legal Fee Advisors is a group of highly experienced attorneys working hard to make sure that clients

Legal Fee Advisors™ is a group of highly experienced attorneys and legal fee analysts working hard to make sure that clients only pay fair, ethical legal fees. Legal bills can be highly complex and few clients have the time, resources or expertise to ensure that outside counsel are in compliance with corporate best practices and are operating within accepted ethical and legal guidelines. For more

than 30 years, the experts at Legal Fee Advisors™ have been helping companies investigate and remedy improper practices, transform billing practices and manage legal costs. We also provide expert testimony to support client’s positions in legal fee litigation. Through our consultancy, auditing and expert testimony practices, our group of highly experienced attorneys, analysts and internationally recognized Legal Fee Experts enable clients to identify questionable historical legal charges, and avoid future problems as well. Core Services:
• Billing Guidelines & Standards
• Legal Fee Consulting & Auditing
• Forensic Auditing: Investigating Historical Billing Issues
• Expert Testimony & Dispute Resolution

05/05/2020

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03/26/2019

Pennsylvania Court of Appeals completely denies $900K fee award for being grossly excessive. Read about it here!

By Kathleen Ramirez. In Clemens v. New York Central Mutual Fire Insurance Company, a recent case in the Court of Appeals, the Court affirmed the Pennsylvania District Court’s decision to deny a fee award. The Court of Appeals ruled that the District Court did not abuse its discretion when it denie...

01/16/2019

Federal Judge Railroads Million Dollar Fee Request. Read about it here!

By Zachary Kalmbach. A plethora of improprieties in a million-dollar fee petition led a federal judge to slash the request in half. Owners of property along a 3-mile railroad right-of-way in Missouri sued the government for compensation under the Takings Clause after the government issued a notice t...

12/04/2018

Texas Appellate Court Rescues Vigilante from $300,000 in Attorneys’ Fees. Read about it here!

By Zachary Kalmbach. A Texas appellate court was troubled by a trial court’s grossly inadequate consideration of a large fee award, and remanded the case for reconsideration. James McGibney, who is a founder and operator of a number of “vigilante justice” websites, sued Neal Rauhauser alleging...

11/20/2018

Missouri Court Takes Care of Unhealthy Billing Practices, Reduces Fees by 39%. Read about it here!

By Zachary Kalmbach. A plethora of billing improprieties led a Missouri federal court to cut a fee request by nearly 40%. In the case, the plaintiffs claimed that certain Missouri healthcare statutes were preempted by the Affordable Care Act. The Court granted summary judgment for plaintiffs, after....

11/06/2018

No Playing Around: California Court Cuts Fee Request by 37%. Read about it here!

By Zachary Kalmbach. A California federal court has laid out a number of reasons for significantly reducing a request for attorneys’ fees. The case arose from a homeowners’ association’s adoption of a “no sports play” rule, which prohibited children under the age of 14 from being in the co...

10/23/2018

Ruff Decision for California Lawyers—Court Slashes Fees by Nearly 70%. Read about it here!

By Zachary Kalmbach. In a case that should give future fee petitioners paws, a California appellate court affirmed a massive fee reduction involving holding periods at a dog shelter. Plaintiff’s dog was impounded at a county dog shelter and adopted after the shelter applied a four-business-day hol...

09/25/2018

Warning to Attorneys: Don’t Block Bill! Mississippi Court Slashes $1.2M Fee Request in Half. Read about it here!

By Zachary Kalmbach. A federal court in Mississippi slashed a fee request in half because of improper billing practices such as block billing. This fee dispute stems from a years-long, “extremely contentious litigation” between KLLM Transport Services (“KLLM”) and JBS Carriers (“JBS”). K...

09/11/2018

In Massive Fee Clash, Billing Blunders Cost Attorneys $1.8 Million in Fee Reductions. Read about it here!

By Zachary Kalmbach. A federal court in Nebraska made substantial reductions to a fee request to account for a plethora of billing errors. Defendants, Werner Enterprises and Drivers Management, operated a student driver program for new truck drivers. Plaintiffs filed a class action seeking compensat...

08/14/2018

Timekeepers Beware: Block Billing, Other Errors Costs Firm Over $400k in Legal Fees. Read about it here!

By Zachary Kalmbach. To account for block billing and several other billing inefficiencies, an SDNY court reduced a million-dollar fee request by over 40%. In a breach-of-contract case between Benihana, Inc. (“BI”) and Benihana of Tokyo, LLC (“BOT”), a panel of arbitrators found that BI’s ...

07/31/2018

Chipotle Dodges Millions in Legal Fees After Settling Employment Class Action. Read about it here!

By Zachary Kalmbach. Finding that a massive fee request was vastly disproportionate to a settlement, a Minnesota court slashed plaintiffs request by over 80%. In an FLSA case, plaintiffs attempted to certify a nationwide class, but the court limited the class to employees from only two restaurants.....

07/17/2018

New York Court Rejects “Limited Financial Means” Argument, Refuses to Reduce Fee Award in Facebook Live-Streaming Case. Read about it here!

By Zachary Kalmbach. In May 2016, a man (“plaintiff”) publicly live-streamed on Facebook a 45-minute video of his partner giving birth to their child. Various news outlets (“defendants”) reported on the video and used very brief excerpts of the video in their news reports. Plaintiff sued def...

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