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Blasting Greenberg Traurig Request, Judge Says Fees ‘Zooming Out of Control’ (New York Law Journal)
New York Law Journal, July 13, 2018
Blasting Greenberg Traurig Request, Judge Says Fees ‘Zooming Out of Control’
“A Manhattan judge has slashed Greenberg Traurig’s $464,164 fee request by 62 percent in a co-op-tenant lawsuit, writing he was ‘troubled, almost haunted, by the idea of awarding almost half a million dollars to attorneys who simply prevailed upon a court to dismiss an untimely proceeding.’….Engoron pointed to larger issues from outsized fee requests and aggressive litigation tactics. ‘By requesting astronomical fees, attorneys are in danger of killing the goose that laid the golden egg,’ the judge said, noting a recent New York City Bar Association report that asked attorneys to eschew litigation tactics like asserting defenses that could burden the parties. ‘Cultural change may be in the offing.'”
