{"id":147774,"date":"2026-04-02T13:11:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=147774"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:11:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:11:19","slug":"law-firm-moves-to-bar-ex-counsel-from-recovering-fees-in-1-25m-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/02\/law-firm-moves-to-bar-ex-counsel-from-recovering-fees-in-1-25m-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Law Firm Moves to Bar Ex%E2%80%91Counsel From Recovering Fees in $1.25M Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"

“It is our position that DM Law did not confer value on the client’s claim sufficient to support the fee it is seeking. We have asked the court to determine the value conferred under Missouri law, and we will present the relevant facts and evidence in that forum,” the plaintiff law firm said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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“It is our position that DM Law did not confer value on the client’s claim sufficient to support the fee it is seeking. We have asked the court to determine the value conferred under Missouri law, and we will present the relevant facts and evidence in that forum,” the plaintiff law firm said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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“It is our position that DM Law did not confer value on the client’s claim sufficient to support the fee it is seeking. We have asked the court to determine the value conferred under Missouri law, and we will present the relevant facts and evidence in that forum,” the plaintiff law firm said in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":147775,"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-147774","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\/2026\/04\/legal-news-jjSIRa.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147774","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=147774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147782,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147774\/revisions\/147782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}