In a per curiam order handed down today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit announced that it will decide a fee dispute between Winston & Strawn and a former client without hearing oral argument.
The order says that Chief Judge David Sentelle and Judges Janice Rogers Brown and Brett Kavanaugh determined that “oral argument will not assist the court in this case” and that it will be decided on the briefs submitted by Winston & Strawn and its former clients Harold Doley and Doley Securities.
At issue in the case are what rates Doley agreed to pay Winston & Strawn and whether the case should be in arbitration. The fees in question total roughly $84,000. The dispute, which The National Law Journal wrote about here, had been set for oral argument before the D.C. Circuit on May 7.
Winston & Strawn is representing itself by way of partners Thomas Buchanan and Charles Klein. Doley is being represented by Claude Roxborough, a name partner at Washington's Kimmel & Roxborough.
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