Don’t miss our Will the Court Approve It? Attorney’s Fees, Billing Entries, and Fee Hearings (FL)
Live webinar | Wednesday, October 14, 2026 | Florida | $129 | Also available OnDemand
You win the case, you move for fees, and the court cuts the award by a third. The reduction rarely reflects on the quality of the work. It reflects block billing, vague task descriptions, entries that cannot be tied to a compensable claim, and reconstructed time that does not survive cross-examination.
This session treats the fee award as its own litigated proceeding, because in Florida that is what it is. It starts with the billing practices that determine the outcome long before the motion is filed: how to describe tasks so the entries survive review, why contemporaneous records matter and what happens when they do not exist, how to handle block billing, travel, and clerical time, and how to allocate time between claims when only some of them support a fee award.
From there it moves to the motion and the hearing: establishing the lodestar and supporting both the hours and the rate, when a fee expert is required and how to prepare one, and what the evidentiary hearing actually looks like. It addresses how opposing counsel will attack the records and how to defend them, along with the findings a court must make and what a deficient order means on appeal.
The session covers both sides. Attorneys opposing a fee motion will find the same material useful in reverse.
Attendees also receive a sample proposed fee order they can adapt for their own practice.
Our fantastic speakers are the Hon. Milena Abreu of Florida’s Eleventh Judicial Circuit and Arya Attari Li, Assistant Vice President and Insurance Claims Counsel at Lockton Companies, LLC and previously a partner at Ploeg & Marino. Both have spoken for us many times and are consistently among our highest rated faculty. A fee award turns on how the court reads your billing records, so hearing directly from a sitting judge is a valuable opportunity.
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And for Florida litigators building core skills, join us for the Taking and Defending Depositions: Preparation, Strategy, and Practical Skills program on November 10 and 12, 2026. Geared to the newer Florida litigator, this two-part program includes live deposition demonstrations during most sessions.
The program features Angela F. Benjamin, Robert (Beau) E. Blumberg, David E. Cannella, Michael E. Dutko Jr., Shawn T. Jewell, Peter J. Klock II, Bernard Pastor, and Daniel E. Smith II.
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