February 24, 2026
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that a trial judge in California improperly slashed the hourly rates sought by a small law firm after it won an antitrust case, saying that a law firm’s size cannot be used to justify awarding lower fees.
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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