July 21, 2023
A federal judge who invoked Rule 11 sanctions on Thursday to bar a firm and its owner from practicing in federal court in the Eastern District of Arkansas for a minimum of two years, citing inflated billing and excessive hourly rates, has revised that sanction to focus just on FLSA cases in the district.
June 10, 2020
An Arkansas plaintiffs firm deserves only $1 in attorney fees for helping workers settle overtime claims against a pipe manufacturer, a federal judge has ruled, while lamenting that he had to give the firm anything because of "incorrigible" billing practices intended to "extort" unearned fees.