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Are CA's Attorney-Fee Rules Anti-Business?

GlobeSt.com discusses with HechtSolberg's Richard Schulman the implications of a recent ruling that the loser of a lawsuit could not be ordered to pay its opponent's attorneys' fees because the loser was a historic-preservation group whose goals the court endorsed.

By Carrie Rossenfeld | carrierossenfeld | Updated on October 02, 2017

Richard Schulman Schulman: “This affects all businesses and many private parties in California, not just developers; worse, it is only one of many ways in which the state’s judges have tilted the playing field.”

SAN DIEGO—California’s “arcane and convoluted” attorneys’ fee rules are heavily weighted against businesses and developers, according to Richard Schulman, a land-use attorney with Hecht Solberg Robinson Goldberg & Bagley LLP.  And, he maintains, they just became more onerous: a California Court of Appeal recently ruled that the loser of a lawsuit could not be ordered to pay its opponent’s attorneys’ fees because the loser was a historic preservation group whose goals the court endorsed (even after finding that the group’s arguments in that particular case were wrong). GlobeSt.com discusses the issue with Schulman and what it means for developers.

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