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EPAH got a David Lat shoutout today
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Date: March 2nd, 2026 8:10 PM Author: passionate vengeful hospital gunner Gaw [EPAH] is a five-lawyer litigation boutique in San Francisco, co-founded by Randolph Gaw and [EPAH]—both Stanford Law alums who worked in Biglaw, at firms such as Morrison & Foerster, O’Melveny & Myers, and Wilson Sonsini. [EPAH] is an expert in the Robinson-Patman Act, the federal antitrust law that prohibits manufacturers from engaging in price discrimination—charging different prices to different customers for the same product or service. In 2024, Gaw [EPAH] prevailed at trial against the manufacturer of Clear Eyes Redness Relief Eye Drops, after a jury found that the company had discriminated against ten wholesale purchasers by providing discounts to larger buyers (e.g., Costco).
Based on its prevailing billing rates and favorable result in the case, Gaw [EPAH] and its clients requested around $7.7 million in attorneys’ fees, reflecting hourly rates ranging from $1,000 to $1,300—not cheap, but well below the $3,000 or $4,000 rates charged by some Biglaw partners. Judge Michael Fitzgerald (C.D. Cal.) awarded only $3.1 million, however, after noting that the fee request relied heavily on cases involving awards to Biglaw firms—and concluding that it was “unreasonable to award big law rates to a four-person firm representing mom-and-pop warehouses.”
In an opinion covered by Reuters, Bloomberg Law, and Above the Law, a unanimous panel of the Ninth Circuit affirmed the judgment in favor of Gaw [EPAH]’s clients and vacated the fee award, remanding the case for recalculation of the fee award. Here’s what Judge Salvador Mendoza wrote (citations omitted):
A firm’s small size should not automatically result in its attorneys receiving a reduced hourly rate. A firm’s size does not directly bear on the factors we must consider when awarding fees—the lawyers’ skill, experience, and reputation. Indeed, some of the most skillful, experienced, and reputable attorneys strike out on their own or with several colleagues. History reminds us that brilliance at the bar is not measured by the number of associates a lawyer commands; Abraham Lincoln, Clarence Darrow, Thurgood Marshall, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Gerry Spence are just a few luminaries who perfected their skills and made enduring marks on our profession without joining the ranks of large law firms.
Preach, Judge Mendoza. To quote the title of E. F. Schumacher’s landmark work, Small Is Beautiful. (And I’d argue that this is true in fields other than law; I’m a one-person operation here at Original Jurisdiction, but I like to think that my work is just as good as the output of much larger media organizations.) |
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Date: March 2nd, 2026 8:26 PM Author: Vibrant Haunted Graveyard Sounds like the right result to me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840626&forum_id=2).#49709556) |
Date: March 2nd, 2026 8:11 PM Author: Fiercely-loyal indian lodge Total Chad.
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Date: March 2nd, 2026 8:13 PM Author: copper lay round eye Hey JJC if I make good natured xo related jokes at you on Twitter will you block me? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840626&forum_id=2).#49709531) |
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Date: March 2nd, 2026 8:15 PM Author: Fiercely-loyal indian lodge I do not comment on: (a) whether I am actually JJC or, (ii) assuming I am JJC, whether any particular X accounts have any connection to JJC. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840626&forum_id=2).#49709535) |
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Date: March 2nd, 2026 8:19 PM Author: copper lay round eye I wanted to drop “Sup Brady!” at him/you earlier today on some post WLAG made about school prestige but was like “fuck he might block me if I post this” and chickened out (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840626&forum_id=2).#49709543) |
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Date: March 2nd, 2026 8:12 PM Author: copper lay round eye EPAH is a sick pedo enabler who cut his son’s dick off (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840626&forum_id=2).#49709530) |
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Date: March 2nd, 2026 8:14 PM Author: passionate vengeful hospital gunner This was not covered in the piece.
But I see Cravath lost another partner laterally. Hell in a handbasket and whatnot. |
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Date: March 2nd, 2026 8:16 PM Author: Fiercely-loyal indian lodge Perhaps, but he's still 180. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840626&forum_id=2).#49709536) |
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Date: March 2nd, 2026 8:26 PM Author: alcoholic cracking menage sound barrier you just Outed him. I didn't know his Home Address or Name until today. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840626&forum_id=2).#49709557) |
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Date: March 2nd, 2026 8:27 PM Author: copper lay round eye It’s not OPs fault you have gaps in your bort knowledge (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840626&forum_id=2).#49709560) |
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Date: March 2nd, 2026 8:29 PM Author: contagious mint stag film (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840626&forum_id=2).#49709564) |