Attorney Fee Awards Handbook is a easy to read handbook that any attorney can use in any practice area (except criminal law or domestic relations cases) and in any size firm. It can be used; used on either the requesting or the defending side of the counsel table. 

This is a simple to follow book with instructions and forms on how to create and organize your demand or defense on attorney fee awards..  Before every deposition, every hearing and every trial -- you'll know what you need to ask and what you need to do.  It's the basic reference for recovering, or defeating, an award of attorney's fees.

Take warning: a January 2008 American Bar Association eJournal carried an article that said in part:

"Missing a deadline for an attorney fee request by one minute has apparently cost a Morrison & Foerster client $1 million .... In any event, the request for attorney fees was inadequate because it was not supported by sufficient evidence from Morrison & Foerster lawyer Mark Mersel or in-house lawyers for Toshiba America, [U.S.District Court Judge] Carney said. Submitted declarations were “mere summaries of attorney work and time spent, without any connection between the listed hours and a particular task,” Carney said."

Too bad that Toshiba's in house and out house attorneys did not read and follow the advice in our  Attorney Fee Awards Handbook  If they had, they would not have been submitting the wrong supporting materials!

Don't be one of the losing attorneys.  To have the proper documentation, you must start with the required documentation on the first day of the first work you do on the case. Attorney Fee Awards Handbook will tell you why and how.

Here's some of the benefits that the Attorney Fee Awards Handbook gives to you. (Notice they are benefits for both sides of the counsel table.)

1. There are many opportunities today to request an award of attorney fees -- this handbook starts out by putting you on alert for those opportunities.

2. "The Top Four Elements of Good Time Records"  --  know these if you want time records that both courts require in awarding fees and clients rush to pay.  (If you are on the defending side of the table, the handbook shows how those four elements are usually the easy four points where you can attack time records, and make judges distrustful of your opponent's request.)

3. Provides defendants with traps to lay in settlement negotiations. (On the other side of the counsel table, you as a plaintiff will be using fee award leverage in settlement.

4. Warns you of potential pitfalls in presenting an award for fees.

5. Gives you  question outline forms for deposing the adversary's expert witness on fees, and for doing the direct examination of your own fee expert at deposition or trial.

The deposition and trial question outline forms mentioned in item 5 (above) each sell for $27 at DepoForm™.  You could buy both forms for a total of  $54 --- but instead ---  don't buy only the forms when you get both of those forms plus more forms and lots of law and text  in the 199 page eBook handbook --- for only $38.  See below.

The following is part of the back cover of the soft-cover bound book Attorney Fee Awards: A Handbook for Attorneys.  We show it to you below because a book's back cover is a quick summary of the contents.  We have this book converted into an eBook for immediate downloading to your computer. You will get the entire book of law, tips, tactics, and forms as it is printed in the bound book, from front cover to back cover, but instead ready to open, copy, read and use, in your computer. Print forms from the ebook in your computer. Copy and paste text and quotations into your briefs. Use it today --- that is why we sell, and why you probably want, the e-book version.

For more information or to download today, we direct you to the  Attorney Fee Awards Handbook pages for you to browse or make your purchase.