Storm's California Employment Law » Harrington http://stormsemploymentlaw.com The First Blog Dedicated To California Employment Law. Original reporting. Cradle-to-grave law tracking. Since 2004. Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:26:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://stormsemploymentlaw.com http://stormsemploymentlaw.com/favicon.ico Storm's California Employment Law The $500 Attorneys’ Fees Case http://stormsemploymentlaw.com/the-500-attorneys-fees-case/ http://stormsemploymentlaw.com/the-500-attorneys-fees-case/#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:48:27 +0000 Jon-Erik G. Storm http://stormsemploymentlaw.com/the-500-attorneys-fees-case/ I’d love to draw the conclusion that this is the Second District walking back the malign effects of the one cent recovery rule.  I’d love to draw the conclusion that evidence and word-of-mouth anecdotal evidence about the DLSE meant that civil courts were reconsidering just how much deference to give them, as others have done.Instead, I think this test fails the smell test, and the judges just didn’t like the chutzpah of such a disproportionate fee to recovery ratio.  There’s nothing to indicate that they understand just how commonplace this is, or the litigation it creates.So, in the meantime, I’ll take this as a possible sign of a change in law coming, but I wouldn’t count on it having meaningful effect now. 

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