A nationally-recognized fee expert.
Grant Stiefel, Esq. is an attorney, testifying fee expert and legal fee auditor who has personally reviewed and audited more than $1 billion in law firm billings over the past decade. Many of the world's leading law firms turn to Mr. Stiefel for his clear, concise and effective trial testimony and expert analysis in the field of attorneys’ fees
Mr. Stiefel provides cost-effective expert assistance to law firms and their clients in connection with attorney-client fee disputes, fee motions, and litigation involving attorney fees as a component of damages. He has testified as a fee expert in more than 140 trials and arbitrations, including litigation in federal courts, California state courts, JAMS/AAA arbitrations, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, State Bar courts, and mandatory attorney-client fee arbitrations
Because he uses a consistent methodology and data sources, Mr. Stiefel routinely testifies on behalf of both fee-seeking and fee-opposing parties, and his conclusions and recommendations regarding reasonable hourly rates and lodestar analysis have been cited in numerous court orders and opinions
Moreover, Mr. Stiefel is uniquely qualified among legal fee experts in that he was a successful trial lawyer for more than a decade at two of the world's largest law firms, has obtained favorable verdicts at jury trials, and managed complex, multi-jurisdictional and high-stakes litigation worth billions of dollars
Contact
➤ LOCATIONS
Denver, Colorado
Los Angeles, California
☎ CONTACT
grant@litigationlimited.com
(424) 223-8252
Recent Trial Court Successes
Grant Stiefel's Expert Testimony Helps Class Counsel Obtain $25 Million IN ATTORNEY FeeS
Grant Stiefel was the testifying fee expert in support of a request for fees in a successful class action brought under California’s Unruh Act. Mr. Stiefel provided persuasive testimony regarding the reasonableness of the fee request and proposed lodestar multiplier, and the trial court awarded more than $25 million in attorneys' fees to class counsel
Grant Stiefel's Expert Fee Testimony Saves Client $1 Million
In a lawsuit brought under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, the prevailing plaintiff moved for a fee award of over $1.5 million. Grant Stiefel’s expert fee analysis convinced the trial court that the requested hourly rates were unreasonable, that far too much time was spent on conferencing, and that the litigation was overstaffed. The court reduced the requested award by more than 60 percent
CENTRAL District TRIAL COURT ADOPTS GRANT STIEFEL'S FEE ANALYSIS AND CUTS $2.8 MILLION FROM MANDATORY FEE AWARD
The district court for the Central District of California adopted and approved Grant Stiefel's methodology for evaluating block-billed, vague and redacted billing entries and slashed a prevailing First Amendment plaintiff’s $4.8 million fee award by more than sixty percent
O.C. TRIAL COURT ADOPTS GRANT STIEFEL'S EXPERT ANALYSIS IN SLASHING MANDATORY ATTORNEY FEE AWARD BY 75 PERCENT
A successful anti-SLAPP defendant moved for over $700,000 in mandatory attorneys’ fees. Although the defendant had prevailed at both the trial and appellate levels, Grant Stiefel's expert testimony showed that the fee request was block-billed, overly redacted, padded with excessive attorney conferencing and improperly staffed. The Orange County Superior Court agreed and cut the requested statutory fee award by more than 75 percent
“Mr. Stiefel’s qualifications as a testifying fee expert cannot seriously be disputed.”