General Brewing Company v. Law Firms Of Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell, Malanca, Peterson & O'hearn

694 F.2d 190 GENERAL BREWING COMPANY, a California corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LAW FIRMS OF GORDON, THOMAS, HONEYWELL, MALANCA, PETERSON & O'HEARN, and Blair, Schaefer, Hutchison, Wynne, Potter, Horton & Johnson, Former Counsel for Plaintiff, Intervening-Appellees, and Olympia Brewing Company, Defendant. No. 81-3500. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Oct. 7, 1982. Decided Dec. 7, 1982. Theodore F. Schwartz, Clayton, Mo., for plaintiff-appellant. Albert Malanca, Tacoma, Wash., for intervening-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. Before WRIGHT, HUG, and SCHROEDER, Circuit Judges. HUG, Circuit Judge: 1 This is an appeal from a judgment of $117,100 in favor of attorneys Albert Malanca and Robert Schaefer and their law firms. The attorneys had represented General Brewing Company ("General") between 1977 and 1980 in four separate antitrust actions in the district court for the Western District of Washington. The judgment awarded attorneys' fees for that representation. 2 Over the course of two and one-half years, attorneys Malanca and Schaefer, their assistants and staff…