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Right to Recover “Fees for Fees” Based on a Contractual Prevailing Party Fee Provision</span></b></a>
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<p style="background:#FEFEFE"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif"">by Adam G. Rabinowitz and Beverly A. Pohl</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif""><br>
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client’s complete vindication for the successful pursuit or defense of litigation often includes the ability to be made whole, including an award of attorneys’ fees as the prevailing party. However, a client’s
<i>complete</i> satisfaction is sometimes tempered by the precedent established in 1993 by the Florida Supreme Court in
<i>State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Palma</i>, 629 So. 2d 830 (Fla. 1993). Based on
<i>Palma</i>, for two decades the prevailing assumption in Florida’s legal community has been that attorneys’ fees may only be recovered for litigating the issue of
<i>entitlement</i> to fees, and not for litigating the <i>amount</i> of fees to be awarded. But in the right circumstances, as illustrated by a recent decision from the Fourth District Court of Appeal, that “rule” may be inapplicable....</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif""><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Sincerely yours,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Randall Gilbert, Esq.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Board Certified Construction Lawyer<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> clc-discussion-bounces@lists.flabarrpptl.org [mailto:clc-discussion-bounces@lists.flabarrpptl.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Reese J. Henderson, Jr.<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 02, 2013 11:25 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> clc-discussion@lists.flabarrpptl.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [CLC-Discussion] Attorney's Fees Incident to Termination<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Looking for Florida cases standing for the proposition that attorney’s fees incurred
<i>pre-suit</i> by the contractor in connection with termination of a subcontractor are recoverable damages as part of the contractor’s costs to complete where the contract enumerates attorney’s fees as one of the items the contractor may recover in this situation.
In other words, these fees are awardable as damages and not merely as prevailing party attorney’s fees in the lawsuit.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Reese<o:p></o:p></p>
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