Suspended Lawyer Ordered to Pay $3.4M in Attorney Fees to Chevron As Contempt Sanction
A suspended lawyer who was found in contempt of court for stonewalling Chevron’s efforts to collect a money judgment against him has been ordered to pay $3.4 million in attorney fees to the oil company, reports the ABA Journal.
A federal judge ordered New York lawyer Steven Donziger to pay the attorney fees for “intransigence” that blocked Chevron’s “considerable efforts” to get at the facts.
The Journal‘s Debra Cassens Weiss writes that Donziger told the publication that $3.4 million is the highest sanction in the history of New York courts. And it’s not his total liability—court fees, attorney fees and fines add up to about $10 million.