Editors:
Hon. Patricia K. Norris (ret.)
Hon. Bruce E. Meyerson (ret.)
From general advice on recording time, "billing judgment" and "reasonable hours," fee agreements, and apportionment, to responding to an application for fees and evidentiary hearings, ethical rules governing attorneys' fees and technical requirements of entering into fee agreements with clients, this manual provides the nuts and bolts details of what you need to recover fees.
This manual provides essential information on specific areas of fee recovery, such as litigation with government agencies, sanctions and punitive fee awards, equitable doctrines, attorneys' fees as damages, and recovery of costs for non-lawyer services. In addition, there are comprehensive chapters covering family, probate. civil rights and employment disputes, and construction law.
Chapters Include:
Special Features: The digital version of the new handbook includes special features making it more user-friendly. The text is searchable and includes hyperlinks to case law, statutes, relevant Internet information, links to internal cross-references, as well as searchable text.
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