Friolo v. Frankel

How courts have described this case

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• One exception to the American Rule is fee- shifting, “or the statutorily-imposed obligation to pay the opponent’s attorneys’ fees[.]” (Citation omitted)
• “[I]t is in the Circuit Court’s discretion ultimately to determine [the plaintiff’s] degree of success, which will be reflected in the lodestar calculus to determine the appropriate amount of attorneys’ fees to award[.]”
• “Maryland generally adheres to the common law, or American rule, that each party to a case is responsible for the fees of its own attorneys, regardless of the outcome.” (citing Montgomery v. E. Corr. Inst, 377 Md. 615, 637, 835 A.2d 169, 183 (2003))
• “While this Court can locate no Maryland or Fourth Circuit authority specially applying Hensley to request[s] for fees-on-fees, the Fourth Circuit has held that the determination of an appropriate award of fees-on-fees is within the district court’s discretion.” (cleaned up)
• The MWHL and MWPCL “permit a trial court, in its discretion, to award attorneys’ fees, and such discretion, . . . is to be exercised liberally in favor of awarding fees, at least in appropriate cases.” (quoting Friolo v. Frankel (Friolo I), 819 A.2d 354, 362 (Md. 2003)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).