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California Courts of Appeal

Oct. 25, 2011

Attorney ordered to pay fees

The 1st District Court of Appeal on Friday ordered a San Francisco plaintiffs' lawyer to pay his former co-counsel $92,000 in attorney fees.

By Laura Ernde
Daily Journal Staff Writer

The 1st District Court of Appeal on Friday ordered a San Francisco plaintiffs' lawyer to pay his former co-counsel $92,000 in attorney fees.

The fees stemmed from an unsuccessful defamation suit Waukeen Q. McCoy brought against Kenneth Walczak of Rosen, Bien & Galvan LLP.

McCoy argued that Walczak's attorney fee request was untimely and excessive, but the 1st District, in an unpublished opinion, rejected his appeal. T...

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