{"id":126629,"date":"2025-07-14T12:03:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T20:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/14\/judge-orders-sanctioned-cftc-to-pay-up-3-1m-to-big-law-counsel\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T12:03:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T20:03:28","slug":"judge-orders-sanctioned-cftc-to-pay-up-3-1m-to-big-law-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/14\/judge-orders-sanctioned-cftc-to-pay-up-3-1m-to-big-law-counsel\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Orders Sanctioned CFTC to Pay Up $3.1M to Big Law Counsel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cConsidering the complexity of the matter, the issues involved in the motion, and the challenges faced by defendants in defending against a federal agency’s serious allegations of $300 million in potential liability, defendants’ retention of highly experienced counsel at the hourly rates charged was a reasonable and necessary choice,” U.S. District Judge Edward Kiel ruled in the opinion and order.<\/p>\n

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\u201cConsidering the complexity of the matter, the issues involved in the motion, and the challenges faced by defendants in defending against a federal agency’s serious allegations of $300 million in potential liability, defendants’ retention of highly experienced counsel at the hourly rates charged was a reasonable and necessary choice,” U.S. District Judge Edward Kiel ruled in the opinion and order.<\/p>\n

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\u201cConsidering the complexity of the matter, the issues involved in the motion, and the challenges faced by defendants in defending against a federal agency’s serious allegations of $300 million in potential liability, defendants’ retention of highly experienced counsel at the hourly rates charged was a reasonable and necessary choice,” U.S. District Judge Edward Kiel ruled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":126630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/legal-news-yUjTzn.jpeg?fit=768%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}