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A Costly Miscalculation: Can Multiple Settlement Offers be Aggregated When Awarding Attorney Fees?

Welcome to The Briefing – a legal podcast by Smith Freed Eberhard. We will provide insight and analysis on new Oregon and Washington case law, litigation innovation and technology, the insurance marketplace, and firm news.

In this week’s episode Cliff Wilson, Partner, discusses Smith Freed Eberhard’s latest Legal Alert, “A Costly Miscalculation: Can Multiple Settlement Offers be Aggregated When Awarding Attorney Fees?”. This case highlights how important it is to consider how a Court might calculate the amount of an Offer of Judgment against multiple defendants, when those defendants had previously made separate pre-filing settlement offers.

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