A recent Connecticut Law Tribune article by Shari Klevens and Alanna Clair, “Reducing Collection Lawsuits Through Effective Billing Practices,” reports on strategies for collecting unpaid legal...
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Strategies for Collecting Fees from Clients
April 11, 2018
A recent Texas Lawyer article by Shari Klevens and Alanna Clair, “Strategies for Collecting Fees from Clients,” reports on strategies for collecting unpaid legal fees. This article was posted...
A recent New Jersey Law Journal story by Michael Booth, “Justices Consider Fee Petition That Followed High-Low Settlement,” reports that the New Jersey Supreme Court is considering whether a...
$112.5M Fee Award in $1B NFL Concussion Settlement
April 6, 2018
A recent Legal Intelligencer story by Max Mitchell, “Judge Awards $112.5M in Total Attorney Fee in NFL Concussion Case,” reports that attorneys who helped hammer out the $1 billion settlement...
A recent Daily Business Review story by Samantha Joseph, “In Fight for Attorney Fees ‘Prevailing Party’ Becomes Slippery Notion,” reports that foreclosure defense attorney Jeffrey H. Papell...
A recent ABA Journal story by Debra Cassens Weiss, “Billing Client in Minimum 15-Minute Increments Wasn’t Abusive, Wyoming Supreme Court Says,” reports that a law firm that routinely billed a...
A recent Law.com story by Matthew R. Weisberg, “Terminated Mid-Stream: What Are Contingent Fee Lawyer’s Remedies?” reports on being fired in the middle of a contingency fee agreement. This...
A recent AP story by Bruce Schreiner, “Bill Advances to Limit Fees to Outside Attorneys,” reports that over objections from Kentucky’s Democratic attorney general, GOP lawmakers took another...
UK Judge Criticizes ‘Extremely High’ Fees in Black Rock Case
March 22, 2018
A recent Law.com story by Joseph Evans, “High Court Judge Criticises ‘Extremely High’ Weil Gotshal Fees for Work on BlackRock Dispute,” reports that a High Court judge has criticised the...
Judge Questions $75M in Fees in Puerto Rico Bankruptcy
March 21, 2018
A recent Big Law Business story by Elizabeth Olson, “Judge Pushes Back Against $75M in Fees for Puerto Rico Bankruptcy,” reports that Puerto Rico’s debt reorganization is not a year old, but...