Attorneys' Fees furnishes valuable, practice-oriented insight into the full array of legal issues, statutes, and precedents relating to attorneys' fees. It also includes a thorough, current treatment of the law, solidly researched from many sources, and detailed coverage of the substantive and ethical considerations that control negotiating contracts for attorneys' fees. Coverage includes:
- Retainers, contingent fees, and other fee arrangements
- General principles governing recovery of fees from non-clients
- Court awards of attorneys' fees pursuant to statute
- Factors governing the reasonableness of fees
- Awards in accordance with contractual stipulations
- Recovering attorneys' fees as damages
- Attorneys' liens
Citations to thousands of cases and numerous references to the integrated legal research system facilitate research.