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Attorney’s Fees and Costs

Clarification Granted

November 17, 2010

As I previously reported, there was a motion for clarification filed in the Service Experts v. Northside case. It didn’t actually have to do with the jurisdiction issue. Rather, it focused on a sentence in the opinion that seemed like throwaway dicta to the court, but made a big difference to our client on remand. [...]

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Attorney’s Fees and Costs in Florida Appeals: A Primer

September 15, 2010

Everybody wants to get paid for their work, and all the better if the other side has to foot the bill for your winning appellate brief. But you can’t get an award of appellate attorney’s fees or costs in Florida state courts if you don’t follow the rules. One of the biggest rookie mistakes I [...]

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The Role of Experts in Proving Appellate Attorney’s Fees

September 9, 2010

You’ve won your appeal. You’ve gotten an award entitling you to appellate attorney’s fees. And now, you have to prove up what your attorney’s efforts are going to cost the other side. This is a case of “you have to spend money to make money” — because if you do not pay an expert to [...]

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