Civil Litigation,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Mar. 9, 2022
Pritzker Levine's 2,000 hours saved $29M, 9th circuit says
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals majority rejected a finding by U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco that the diverted money in the case would have been recovered without Pritzker Levine's involvement.
A divided federal appeals court panel vacated a lower court's denial of attorney fees for Pritzker Levine's 2,000 hours of work recovering assets wrongly put into receivership.
"The attorneys used their own resources to recover $30 million that otherwise would have dissipated," co-founding partner Elizabeth C. Pritzker said in a phone interview Tuesday. "Attorneys are entitled to be paid for their work."
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