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By Max Mitchell | October 18, 2017
If the state Supreme Court upholds a decision that workers' compensation lawyers can be ordered to pay the employer's attorney fees for unreasonable contest, if the employer prevails on appeal, there will be a chilling effect on smaller cases, a lawyer representing a claimant told the justices.
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By Max Mitchell | October 17, 2017
Can law firms that handed off a case to a successor firm recover its fees from the successor firm under a quantum meruit theory, or does the initiating firm need to sue the client?
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By Stephanie Forshee | October 16, 2017
Legal experts weigh in on bold predictions made by scholar Richard Susskind.
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By Alex Berry, Legal Week | October 12, 2017
The firm says Flexible Legal Resources will help clients with staffing needs by providing temporary lawyers for in-house teams during abnormal spikes in workload.
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By Max Mitchell | October 11, 2017
Chris Seeger, one of the lawyers leading class counsel in the settlement has made a $70 million fee request on behalf of his firm, Seeger Weiss, which he outlined Tuesday in a 22-page declaration to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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By Nancy Jessen | October 10, 2017
As realization rates slip, UnitedLex's Nancy Jessen explains how law firms can limit the work they have to write off.
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By Andrew Denney | October 6, 2017
Attorneys who represented three plaintiffs who recovered less than $7,000 in a wage dispute case against a Bronx restaurant are entitled to more than $30,000 in attorney fees for their work on the case, a federal judge has ruled.
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By Lizzy McLellan | October 5, 2017
Lawyers in the Philadelphia region charged the lowest average billing rate in the country, according to a legal trends report.
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By Roy Strom | October 3, 2017
In a market where clients are struggling to deliver more legal services for less cost (the challenge), Richard Susskind said a law firm may be tempted to undercut its competition on price in hopes of winning more work.
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By Hugh A. Simons | October 3, 2017
Setting the next year's billing rates follows a simple formula at most firms: last year's rate plus a common percentage increase across all lawyer…
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