With so much media attention focused on outrageously large attorney fees awards and the ever–skyrocketing cost of litigation, it would be easy to overlook a recent en banc decision of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals awarding a $1.50 attorney fee in favor of a lawyer who prevailed at trial on a federal civil rights claim for an imprisoned client.
In exchange for that $1.50 attorney fee, the lawyer not only represented his client at trial, but also after trial -- and for no additional compensation -- the lawyer briefed and argued against the defendant's appeal to the 10th Circuit. He then filed supplemental briefs and reargued the appeal before that appellate court sitting en banc.
Why such a small fee? Find out in this article by Howard Bashman on Law.com.