Civil Litigation,
Law Practice
Feb. 29, 2008
Fee for Few
Obtaining attorney fees in cases that affect the public can be exceptionally complex under the private attorney general law.
Timothy D. Reuben
Reuben MediationTim Reuben spent more than 40 years handling complex legal disputes in California's state and federal courts. As the founder and managing partner of Reuben Raucher & Blum in Los Angeles, he has worked on a wide range of matters through jury and bench trials, arbitration, mediation, judicial reference, and settlement conferences across multiple areas of civil law, including commercial, real estate, construction, employment, intellectual property, insurance, professional liability, and unfair competition.
Although meeting the criteria established by case law to obtain attorney fees under Section 1021.5 is pretty tough, the state Supreme Court has just made it a little bit tougher. Case law has established that the fundamental objective of the private attorney general statute is to encourage suits enforcing public policy by awarding attorney fees to those who successfully bring such suits and thereby bring about benefits to a broad class of citizens. The statute has been characterized as an ...
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