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Litigation

Apr. 14, 2001

Fee Follies

The Supreme Court counseled trial courts to consider the degree to which the legal market already compensates for the Serrano factors.

        By Paul D. Fogel and Jayne E. Fleming
        
        For the last 10 years or so, lawyers and judges who have been dealing with attorney-fee motions under the many attorney-fee statutes contained in California's codes could not be certain about what rules governed calculation of the award.
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