Supplemental Reading on the Subjects of Attorney Fee Awards & Legal Fees

This page is the entry point for some additional reading on the subjects of the book Attorney Fee Awards: a Handbook for Attorneys. We could not fit them within the page limitations specified for the book, but these additional pages may have what you want to know.

Why do we have Supplemental Reading pages?  Answer: Because the handbook had strict page limits on what would be published (to keep the handbook a handbook, and prevent it from being a tome) Attorney Fee Awards was written under strict specifications. to wit: written in the style of the popular "___ for Dummies" series; containing a succinct  discussion of the the law, for busy, practical, lawyers; containing proven tips and tactics for attorneys on both sides of the fees award controversy; about half the pages to be text, the other half to be forms; and not more than 200 pages long.

Reasonable fees of attorney
 in probate and guardianship cases

Legal fee disputes in certain types of cases in which litigators are not often involved have special demands and legal doctrines not found in a litigator's routine lawsuits. When the legal fees bill for the representative of a probate estate or a personal trust or a guardianship is involved, there are two ....

Expert Legal Fee Witnesses
on High-Stakes Attorney Fee Disputes

It takes more than a good attorney to win an attorney fee dispute in a high-stakes attorney fee dispute. You need an experienced expert witness who can testify, and who can produce a sophisticated and supportable analysis of why the asserted fee amount is reasonable or unreasonable.....

There are a number of places to gain statistics on the "normal" wages or hourly fees of attorneys in a specific city or county.  We mention some of them in the handbook.  From time to time we add a recent note giving you another source to consider.

Attorney Fee Awards: a handbook for attorneys