Attorney’s Fee Awards

Attorney's fee awards can be frustrating. The reason being is the award is based on a mini-bench-trial after the trial aimed at determining reasonableness of the attorney’s fees. An expert, i.e., another lawyer, is required to opine as to the reasonableness of the attorney’s fees. Fees are not just rubberstamped and banking on recovering 100% of the attorney’s fees incurred is probably not realistic. In fact, you should not “bank” on that mindset when determining whether to settle the attorney’s fees or the dispute. A recent case, Kovar Law Group, PLLC v. Jordan, 49 Fla.L.Weekly D431a (Fla. 2d DCA 2024), touches...