Featured Speaker:
Richard M. Pearl
Richard M. Pearl (he/his) is the Principal of the Law Offices of Richard M. Pearl in Berkeley, California. He received his J.D. degree from Boalt Hall School of Law in Berkeley in 1969 and was admitted to both the Georgia and California State Bars in 1970. For the past thirty-plus years, his practice has focused on cases involving reasonable attorneys’ fees, either court-awarded, claimed as damages, or at issue in attorney-client disputes. He is the author of California Attorney Fee Awards, 3d Ed., published by California’s Continuing Education of the Bar in 2010, and updated annually. As an expert witness on fees, his testimony has been accepted by innumerable courts and arbitrators including Kerkeles v. City of San Jose, 243 Cal. App. 4th 88, 96, 105 (2015) and Wit v. United Behav. Health, 578 F.Supp.3d 1060, 1079 (N.D. Cal. 2022). He also has been appellate counsel in many of the leading cases on attorneys’ fees in both the California and federal courts, including Flannery v. Prentice, 26 Cal.4th 572 (2001), Graham v. DaimlerChrylser Corp., 34 Cal.4th 553 (2004), Robles v. EDD, 38 Cal.App.5th 191 (2019) in the California courts and Davis v. City & County of San Francisco, 976 F.2d 1536 (9th Cir. 1992), Mangold v. Public Utilities Commn., 67 F.3d 1470 (9th Cir. 1995), and Camacho v. Bridgeport Financial, Inc., 523 F.3d 973 (9th Cir. 2008) in the federal courts. |
