Focus (Forum & Focus)
Jun. 28, 2008
Motion Quickness
California’s Code of Civil Procedure contains a partial exception to the general rule that can allow parties — and not necessarily just prevailing parties — to recover at least a portion of what they spent on litigation, write Kurt Andrew Schlichter and Steven C. Shonack. - Focus Column
By Kurt Andrew Schlichter and Steven C. Shonack
This article appears on Page 5
One of the toughest things to explain to clients in civil litigation is that they will end up paying their own attorney fees even if they prevail. Except in cases where there is a contractual attorney fees provision or a statute that provides for a fees award, parties that were forced to litigate to assert their rights o...
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