With fee-shifting statutes and clauses expanding, litigation over attorney fees has reached record levels around the country. Recovering attorney fees often involves issues as complex as the case itself and knowing the standards and ethical rules will help you to maximize your attorney fee award. Join James E. King - an expert in attorney fee disputes – as he uses case law, advisory opinions, and Model Rules to detail both the ethics and reasonableness of attorney fees. Mr. King discusses ‘non-refundable retainers, classic retainers, flat fee agreements with incentivization, hourly agreements, the reasonableness of fees, attorney-client fee disputes, detecting attorney bill padding, block billing, fees descriptions in billing, fee requests, and loadstar statutes. Cases discussed include Fletcher v. Davis, Schatz v. Allen Matkins, Ramirez v. Sturdevant, Banning Ranch Conservancy v Superior Court of Orange County, Adams, et al. v. Colony Park Estates, and Welch v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Mr. King is the founder of the King Law Corporation in San Diego and specializes in attorney fee disputes, legal ethics, and advises corporate counsel and law firms on litigation costs. Mr. King has testified as an expert witness on numerous attorney-client fee disputes and has represented prominent clients such as Heisman Trophy winner Rashan Salaam, Prince Fahd Aziz of Saudi Arabia, and attorney Robert Shapiro. Mr. King serves as a Special Master for the State Bar of California and is Vice-Chair of the Fee Arbitration Committee for the San Diego County Bar Association. Mr. King also lectures and publishes works on the ethics and reasonableness of attorney fee ethics and other legal ethics topics.
Practice Areas: Business Law | Criminal Law | Employment Law | Ethics | Family Law | Intellectual Property | Litigation | Personal Injury | Real Property | Trusts and Estates | Bankruptcy
State Accreditations: California (CA)