NALFA Goes International
November 14, 2014
NALFA is now welcoming international members. Legal fee analysis is an international practice with professionals throughout the world including the UK, Australia, and Canada. While legal billing...
November 14, 2014
NALFA is now welcoming international members. Legal fee analysis is an international practice with professionals throughout the world including the UK, Australia, and Canada. While legal billing...
November 3, 2014
NALFA will be hosting a series of webinars on attorney fee and legal billing issues throughout 2015. These five 90-minute CLE programs will focus on each role and skills set within the attorney...
September 12, 2014
A recent New Jersey Law Journal story, “Jury to Decide if Goldman Sachs Pays Ex-Employee's Legal Bill,” reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has reversed an order...
August 5, 2014
As the Wall Street Journal reported in “Analysts Are Billions of Dollars Apart on BofA’s Expected Legal Costs,” Bank of America is in talks to pay at least $12 billion to settle...
June 30, 2014
A recent ABA Journal article, “When Letting a Bill go Unpaid Can Be Good for Business,” discusses how pursuing clients for unpaid bills can be counterproductive. Scott Saul, a Miami...
A recent Thomson Reuters story, “MF Global Trustees Seek Higher Leash on Corzine’s Legal Fees,” reports that lawyers for defunct brokerage MF Global asked U.S. Bankruptcy judge to...
February 27, 2014
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases involving the attorney fee provision of 35 U.S.C. § 285. That statute provides that a “court in exceptional cases may award...
A recent The Recorder story, “Prosecutors: Nosal Should Foot O’Melveny’s $1 Million Bill,” reports that the federal prosecutors say David Nosal, the former executive recruiter...
December 4, 2013
A recent NLJ story, “Patton Boggs Issues Flurry of Fee Suits,” reports that Patton Boggs is putting a tighter on clients to pay their legal bills on time as the firm continues cost-cutting...
September 5, 2013
Plaintiffs’ lawyers and defense counsel use different billing models. Defense lawyers typically bill by the hour with their fees paid by a corporate client. Typically,...