All posts tagged "attorney fees"
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3.5KFederal 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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4.3KFederal 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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2.5KFederal 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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3.8K1Federal 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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4.1KFederal 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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3.5KKen 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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2.7KAppellate 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King & Spalding has withdrawn a request for nearly $665,000 in attorney fees after a federal judge ruled the law firm can’t...
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3.1KFifth 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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3.4KEditors 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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5.7KEditors 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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1.9KEditors 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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4.3K1AccelerationLeon “Lee” Cooperman is one of the Largest Investors in Non-Bank Mortgage Servicers and Related Companies Like Ocwen Alter-Ego Altisource Portfolio Solutions
Leon Cooperman founded Omega in 1991 after 25 years at Goldman Sachs. As of Oct. 31, 2018, the firm had $3.3 billion...
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2.8KAccelerationOcwen’s Ousted Founder William Erbey’s Alter-Ego Called AltiSource Portfolio Solutions Q2 2019 Earnings Call Transcript
Leon Lee Cooperman of Omega Advisors: You know, it is very frustrating in terms of the amount of money you've spent on...
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1.5KAccelerationTexas Slapps A New House Bill and Also Changes State Law to Allow Judges Discretion to Award Attorney Fees, Which is a Positive Move for Texans in State Court
The proposed HB 3300 would make a small but significant tweak to the law. In the loser-pays provision, it would change the word...
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3.1KFederal LawTexas Lawyer Penny Robe is the Chair of the Law Practice Management Committee for the State Bar of Texas and Discusses Ethical Contract Attorney Fees in Texas
State Bar of Texas Podcast. State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting 2019: Ethical Use of Contract Lawyers with Penny Robe
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2.4K2Ken PaxtonFor God’s Sake Man, We Won’t Defend Our Texas Ethics Commission as a Texas Attorney General Should Sayeth the Paxtons as they Received nearly $1,000,000 in Campaign Donations from Empower Texans
Paxton, who was first elected in 2014, has received a total of $782,000 from Empower Texans and Dunn. Empower Texans has also...
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2.5KKen PaxtonThe Televangelism of Ken Paxton is a Great Article about How the Shy Church-Going Texas Attorney General Stepped Into Politics with Pistol Packin Mamma (Angel-a Paxton) and Silenced the Conversation about his Fraud Indictment
If the attorney general’s office were a private law firm, it would be among the largest in Texas, with more than seven hundred lawyers,...
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1.7KKen PaxtonCalling their Bluff, Texas’s Top Criminal Court Denies Attorney Fee Request by Prosecutors Pursuing Ken Paxton’s Criminal Case as they Threatened to Walk if Not Paid Going Rates
We’re disappointed that the Court took six months to summarily deny our motion for rehearing without addressing any of the substantial legal...
