All posts tagged "attorney fees"
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24Ken PaxtonWhat’s the Score with Michael Quinn Sullivan’s Rebrand?
No sooner is Michael Quinn Sullivan, formerly of Empower Texans fined by Texas Ethics Commission about the fact that he's not registered...
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965AccelerationPrevailing Homeowner Terri Page versus Deutsche Bank for Attorney Fees Reaches Florida Supreme Court
Foreclosure Defense Attorney Nicole Moskowitz appears before the Florida Supreme Court to argue landmark foreclosure case against Deutsche Bank for legal fees.
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1.3KKen PaxtonProsecutors in Ken Paxton Criminal Case Slam Rookie Lawyer Earning $300 Per Hour
Prosecutors paint Ken Paxton as a hypocrite for challenging their $300 rate as excessive while paying a rookie lawyer the same in...
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2.1KFederal LawFifth Circuit Judge Edith Brown Clement Understands the Various Badges of Fraud in Law. The Caveat is Lawyers Are Immune
An individual badge of fraud is not conclusive, but a concurrence of many badges in the same case will always make out...
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2.2KAppellate JudgesWhen Litigants are Ordered to File an Amended Brief and End Up More Distressed About the Judges than the Opposing Parties, That’s Not Good for Democracy
Dishonorably and shockingly, it has now become a desperate search for judges who can provide a fair and impartial hearing at COA...
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2.0KAppellate JudgesWaiver, Ethics, Other Authorities, Inherent Authority, Truth Seeking and Let’s Add Some Poetry. It’s All in this Motion for Reconsideration at CA5.
It is abundantly clear the Burkes are well within their legal rights to cite the documents and web links which they included...
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2.0KLaws In TexasTexas Lawyers Con Existing Client to Loan One of Law Firms Clients Money, Which Went Right Back to Law Firm in Attorney Fees
Ex-Client Lodges $1.3M Fraud Suit Against Texas Law firm Foley & Lardner, inc. 2 H-town Lawyers. Lots of conflicts in this legal...
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2.2KFederal LawTwo Texans Get 5 Years Each for Theft of $25,000 in Iowa. Iowa Attorney Gets Zero Jail Time, No Felony Record and Keeps her Law License for $100,000 theft.
The two Texans were arrested June 11 after employees at Sioux City's Scheels store saw them making suspicious purchases on a credit...
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2.6KFederal LawLawyer Meyer Suspended in Iowa for Fraudulent Billing in Excess of $100k in Attorney Fees. Citizen Jacobs Wrote Bad Checks for $1,100 and was Sentenced to 5 Years Jail
Lawyers Above the Law: It's very disheartening when you read articles about lawyer theft by overbilling attorney fees and they are given...
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1.3KFederal JudgesTexas Attorney James Walker of Cole Schotz and Clients Alfa Adhesives Stuck with 60k in Sanctions for Fabrication of Evidence
A Texas federal judge ordered a glue manufacturer to pay a furniture manufacturer $60,000 in attorney fees after one of the glue...
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2.2KFederal LawAre the 3-Panel at an Appellate Court Obligated to Report Attorney Fraud? Nay, Sayeth the Eleventh Circuit. The Law, However, Does Not Support this Theory.
What started out as an 11th Circuit review of a Fraudulent Transfer Appeal ended up telling the beginning of a 60 minute...
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2.1KFederal LawTexas Federal Magistrate Judge Andrew Austin Calls Out Law Firm [Mis]Conduct
Kirkland & Ellis LLP “should be embarrassed” by the way it stonewalled information requests from a legal recruiting firm which delayed discovery...
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1.8KKen PaxtonTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton Challenges the State Bar of Texas. The Judge’s Decision is Still Pending.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has joined a lawsuit against the State Bar of Texas, but the Judge responsible is taking his...
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1.6KAppellate CircuitMotion to Seal Law Firms Billing Rates Results In Hefty Sized Attorney Fee Write-Off
King & Spalding has withdrawn a request for nearly $665,000 in attorney fees after a federal judge ruled the law firm can’t...
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1.4KFifth CircuitJudge Sparks Sanctions and Recusal Row But Judge Andy Oldham Settles it With a Silver Bullet
The district court determined that Tejero’s attorneys did not settle his lawsuit quickly enough. So the district court sanctioned them. That was...
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1.9KEditors ChoiceWells Fargo Agrees to Settle Class Action After Wrongfully Foreclosing On Hundreds of Homeowners After the Financial Crisis
A federal judge in California has certified a class of Wells Fargo mortgage customers who claim the bank denied them mortgage modifications...
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3.1KEditors ChoiceOcwen’s Ousted Founder William Erbey Leaves Atlanta for St Croix, Gets Ocwen to Buy His Mansion and Buys a Maltese Passport for a Premium Fee of $725,000. An Ethical Kinda Billionaire.
Ocwen paid Erbey a $500,000 salary and a $1.4 million incentive last year, but his real wealth lies in his large stakes...
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962Editors ChoiceAs House Speaker is Outed it Confirms The Truth: Texas Lawmakers are Vultures Only Interested in Their Own Political Interests and Financial Rewards
I have made mistakes Speaker Bonnen seeking to rebuild the trust that has been broken. In an email sent to colleagues, Bonnen...
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