Law Practice
Mar. 23, 2022
Recover hourly rates higher than local rates?
John D. O’Connor
John is a San Francisco litigator who frequently serves as an attorney fee expert witness and consultant.
In a society with a bewildering variety of specialized litigation niches and law firms increasingly engaged in multijurisdictional practice, choice of counsel for a party can often be difficult. That choice becomes even more difficult when the litigant hopes to defray costs by recovering attorney fees through either a statutory or contractual fee-shifting provision.
Can a successful client who hired counsel from outside the litigation foru...
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