Any fees awarded will be split among about 40 different law firms.

The law project will not share in the settlement, but it expects to be awarded lawyers' fees by the court, she said.

She also was awarded attorney's fees and court costs for her six-year legal battle.

Twice he was awarded fees that state monitors later found unusually high.

The fees awarded in this case were for work done primarily in 1981 and 1982.

In that case, a judge awarded two of the firms fees amounting to more than $10,000 an hour.

But he acknowledged that some of the huge legal fees awarded in those cases had fueled the larger controversy.

They are using $500,000 in attorneys' fees awarded to lawyers representing the disabled.

The court awarded Robbins his attorneys' fees and costs in addition to damages.

A judge ruled it was fair use, then said Righthaven had no standing to bring the case to begin with and awarded legal fees.