Even when you do get a fee award, they are generally like the fees awarded in my discovery motion: only a small portion of the total fees charged to the client at the end of the day and only attributable to some cordoned-off wrongdoing by the other side in one particular area of a case as it slogs through the court system for years.
Lawyers spend a lot of time explaining to clients the so-called 'American Rule,' which is, basically, that each side in a lawsuit pays their own attorney's fees regardless of who wins. In some countries, the loser pays the other side's legal costs, but the United States is not one of them (hence, the 'American Rule').
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