Around the Blawgosphere: Victorious Lawyers in Heller Case Got Chump Change, Bloggers Say

Reeling over Fees Decision In 2008, small-firm lawyer Alan Gura prevailed at the U.S. Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller, which struck down D.C.’s handgun ban. The same year, Gura and the other lawyers for Heller sought more than $3 million for the work they put in over the course of six years, and Gura later defended that request in a reply brief (PDF posted by the Blog of Legal Times). D.C. wanted to the team to be paid around $800,000. At the very end of 2011, the…