Schlichter Bogard Can’t Overturn Denial of Expert Fee Request

Schlichter Bogard & Denton LLP failed to convince the Ninth Circuit to rethink its ruling blocking the law firm from taking nearly $1 million in expert witness fees from the damages award it secured for participants in Edison International’s 401(k) plan.

The court announced Thursday that it won’t reconsider its January decision denying Schlichter’s request to deduct expert witness fees from the $13.2 million judgment it won in a case challenging Edison’s 401(k) plan. The court denied this request after concluding that the Edison plan participants prevailed on only one of their 10 claims, and that this partial victory didn’t ...