In this post at The Opening Brief, Tom Caso discusses an attorney fee case that I missed last month (geez, it hurts to admit that). The case, Hogar v. Community Development Commission, case no. D049452 (4th Dist. Dec. 14, 2007), involves the issue of whether fees for pre-litigation activities may be recovered under California’s private attorney general fee provision, Code of Civil Procedure §1021.5. Tom’s post also discusses a key difference between attorney fee recovery under Section 1021.5 and recovery under its federal counterpart.

Tom knows about attorney fees in public interest cases, having been chief counsel for Pacific Legal Foundation.