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‘Disloyal’ worker keeps $1M fee award
A Bethesda real estate brokerage won a breach-of-contract battle with a former employee but lost the nearly $1 million war over attorneys’ fees. Maryland’s top court affirmed a $946,014.50 award in legal fees to brokerage manager Dorothy C. “Dottie” Faust, though she was found liable for $250,000 in damages for disloyalty to her former employer, […]
Attorneys’ fees in FLSA case could put Baltimore bar owner out of business
Pooling tips with bartenders at his two South Baltimore taverns might well put Jason Zink out of business. No, the recession has not made those shared gratuities too few to sustain him, and no, it’s not because the Don’t Know and No Idea taverns hold themselves out to be gathering places for Boston Red Sox […]
Lawyer disbarred for client neglect, unearned $1,000 fee
Maryland’s top court has unanimously disbarred an attorney who solicited business from a defendant in a civil suit and did absolutely nothing to represent him, even after collecting a $1,000 fee. Andrew Gregory De La Paz — who had offices in Montgomery, Prince George’s and Baltimore counties — also failed to open an estate despite […]
Using Excel for settlement negotiations
Telling a client that the defendant’s insurer wants to settle their case for $250,000 is equivalent to explaining the intricacies of res judicata — it is usually meaningless. In order for a client to make an informed choice about whether to settle their case, they have to know where the money is going and, most […]
Court denies attorney’s fees to victorious litigant
A federal appeals court has denied attorney’s fees to an Irish national who took the U.S. government to court in a successful effort to gain American citizenship. Andrew Peter Cody, a 2009 U.S. Naval Academy graduate, did not qualify for the fees under the federal Equal Access to Justice Act because the government’s opposition to […]
Case Digest: November 15, 2010
Administrative Law, Timeliness of appeal: Petition for an administrative hearing was properly rejected as time barred because it was filed more than 180 days after notice of the agency’s final decision. Carven v. State Retirement & Pension System of Maryland, No. 58, Sept. Term, 2009. Civil Procedure, Certiorari jurisdiction: Because the Court of Special Appeals […]
