Top NALFA Headlines of 2016
January 4, 2017
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Things to Consider Before Suing a Client Over Unpaid Fees
December 22, 2016
A recent The Recorder article, “Things to Think About Before Suing a Client Over Past-Due Bills,” by Randy Evans and Sheri Klevens considers suing clients over past due legal bills. The article...
ABA Urges Caution on Client Info in Fee Dispute Withdrawals
December 19, 2016
A recent Law 360 story, “ABA Urges Caution on Client Info in Fee Dispute Withdrawals,” reports that lawyers and judges should cooperate to protect client confidences when attorneys want to...
Elite Law Firms Increasingly Suing Clients to Collect Fees
December 8, 2016
A recent American Lawyer story, “Elite Law Firms Increasingly Suing Clients to Collect Fees,” reports that the days of large law firms allowing clients to skip or delay paying bills are...
Attorney Fee Discovery Before Texas Supreme Court
September 8, 2016
A recent Law 360 story, “Texas Justices To Hear National Lloyds Fee Discovery Fight,” reports that the Texas Supreme Court agreed to hear a case brought to it by National Lloyds Insurance Co. in...
Let NALFA Manage and Resolve Your Fee Dispute Case
September 1, 2016
Attorney fee disputes are often a result from a breakdown in the attorney-client relationship or in the fee agreement. Mediation is the quickest, simplest, and most cost effective way to resolve...
PA Court: Email Can Memorialize Contingency Fee Agreement
August 23, 2016
A recent Legal Intelligencer story, “Court: Email Can Cement Contingent Fee Arrangement,” reports that an email sent by an attorney to his client memorializing a contingent fee arrangement was...
NALFA Members Interviewed in Law 360 Article on Legal Costs
August 2, 2016
A recent Law 360 article, “5 Tips For When GCs Balk at the Bill,” by Jimmy Hoover reports on general counsel and legal costs. Two NALFA members, Joe Studer and John O’Connor, were interviewed...
NALFA Hosts Successful CLE on Attorney Fee Ethics
July 29, 2016
NALFA hosted the nation’s largest multi-state CLE program on attorney fees ethics, "Attorney Fees & Ethics: It Pays To Be Reasonable" on July 28, 2016. A panel of some of the nation's top...
A recent Law 360 article, “Atty Who Quit Before $27M BofA Verdict Still Get Fees” reports that a Massachusetts attorney with a contingency agreement should get fees after representing a car...