Civil Litigation
Sep. 28, 2017
Judge trims rates but Miller Barondess gets $1.5M in fees
It could have been $600,000 more if the Riverside Superior court judge had not adjusted the per-hour rates for the locale.
Mira Hashmall of Miller Barondess LLP got $1.5 million in fees, less than what she sought for her representation of fired UC Riverside chief counsel Michele Cole in her lawsuit against the university.
A plaintiff’s attorney achieved a settlement Wednesday that added $1.5 million in attorney fees to her client’s $2.5 million jury verdict in a gender discrimination case, but it could have been $600,000 more if the Riverside County Superior Court judge had not adjusted the per-hour rates to amounts he said were more reasonable in the county.
“In order to avoid the delay of appeal, we reached the settlement of $4 million. In short, it...
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