Francis Scarpulla on Attorney Fee Awards to Plaintiffs' Counsel under Fee Shifting Statute, Settlement or Judgment

On this edition, Francis O. Scarpulla of Zelle Hoffman in San Francisco discusses the right to receive fees by plaintiffs' counsel under either a fee shifting statute or settlement or judgment. He talks about fee bidding, the use of a special master and impact of class objectors. Mr. Scarpulla is one of the authors of the treatise California State Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law, available from LexisNexis. Copyright© 2010 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Visit www.lexisnexis.com/community/corpsec.