If Young fails to pay her court fee next month, the case will be dismissed.
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But even if she does pay her court fee, it sounds like this lawsuit will not find a friend in the legal system.
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Then they negotiate a settlement with the company and ask the court for a fee to reward them for their hard work.
For unnecessary delays, defense lawyers would be fined up to half of the case fee, or barred from court.
The appeals court nevertheless criticized plaintiff lawyers for failing to disclose fee-sharing arrangements that gave Southern lawyers a higher percentage of settlements they negotiated for their original clients.
According to the fee request Kirby McInerney filed with the court, the law firm and others including Motley Rice and Glancy Binkow, along with outside contract attorneys, racked up 87, 000 hours of professional time after filing the lawsuit in 2008 accusing Citi of misleading investors about the risk of its derivatives business.
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In April, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found that the Cafra attorney's fee should be paid to the client, not directly to the lawyer.
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Taylor of Texas and Robert A. Pritchard of Mississippi, meanwhile had an incentive to maximize settlements for their Southern clients, who came unencumbered with any fee-splitting deal at all, the court said.
The alleged hacking was significant because the documents came from the government-run Public Access to Court Electronic Records, or PACER, which typically charges a fee, which was 8 cents a page in 2009.
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Other questioners focused on the government's plans to reform no-win, no-fee arrangements, changes to the administration of the European Court of Human Rights, and the operation of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
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