February 26, 2026
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a $4.5 million fee reduction, ruling that a winning law firm’s size cannot be used to justify lower fees and declaring that “brilliance at the bar” is not measure by the number of associates a lawyer commands.
Gaw | Poe LLP is a San Francisco Bay Area boutique law firm focusing on business litigation, antitrust litigation, and appeals. Founders Randolph Gaw and Mark Poe are nationally recognized litigators who graduated from the same class at Stanford Law School. The firm has been recognized by The National Law Journal for obtaining the 37th largest verdict in the country for 2016.
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