P0120 To avoid encouraging duplicative and superfluous litigation, the court decried the unquestioning award of overly generous fees in class actions and found a fee award to be excessive in view of the fact that the defendant had attempted to settle the matter while the plaintiff's attorney seemed to be attempting to delay its resolution.CitationTHAYER v WELLS FARGO (Excessive Fee) 92 CA4 819 [See: CivC 1750 etseq; B&PC 17200 etseq; PLCM v Drexler 22 C4 1084, T/AT 6/00; Ketchum v Moses 24 C4 1122, T/AT 4/01; Serrano v Priest 20 C3 25; Lealao v Beneficial 82 CA4 19, T/AT 8/00]
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