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Litigation

Dec. 20, 2013

Jackson attorneys object to $900,000 of defense's expenses

Panish, Shea & Boyle calls O'Melveny's bill for fighting Michael Jackson's wrongful death suit 'excessive' and 'unreasonable.' Among the expenses is a $540,000 tab for exhibits, including a single exhibit costing $117,000.


By Chase Scheinbaum


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - Plaintiffs lawyers are balking at paying the more than $900,000 in costs their opposition incurred fighting a wrongful death lawsuit brought by Michael Jackson's estate.


In the trial's messy aftermath - which has drawn multiple appeals and a motion for a new trial - defense attorneys at O'Melveny & Myers LLP submitted a bill for $1.2 million to the plaintiffs. The cos...

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