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December 11, 2020 at 06:00 AM
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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING
NO ILL EFFECTS - At first glance, it might seem like life in the hermetically sealed bubble known as the Am Law 50 has gone on completely unaffected by the pandemic-induced recession, what with the double bonuses and bank surveys projecting moderate to high revenue and profit growth for 2020. But, as Christine Simmons writes in this week's Law.com Barometer newsletter, that performance is not happening entirely in spite of the pandemic—those firms are profiting from some of COVID-19′s consequences. To receive the Law.com Barometer directly to your inbox each week, click here.
IT'LL COST YOU - Crafting an attorney fee petition is as much an art as it is a science. Documenting the hours and resources spent working on a matter is important, but demonstrating to the court that all that time and effort was necessary and, ultimately, worth it is just as, if not more, crucial. In this week's Law.com Litigation Trendspotter, we explain why perfecting that art is becoming increasingly important as we seem to be seeing more and more fee requests being shot down in flames for overshooting their mark. Often, those petitions are being rejected because the court decides the matter was overstaffed, overpriced, underwhelming or some combination of the three.
3-2-1 (BREACH-OF-CONTRACT) ACTION! - Gary Oldman is a very good actor. Gary Oldman is such a good actor that when people don't get to make a movie with Gary Oldman, they sue people, including Gary Oldman. Counsel at Loeb & Loeb on Thursday removed a lawsuit against the Academy Award-winning actor, NBCUniversal Media, Focus Features, Working Title Group and other defendants to California Central District Court. The suit, over Oldman's role as Winston Churchill in the film "Darkest Hour," was filed by Ben Kaplan, who accuses Working Title of poaching Oldman from starring in a prior project based on Kaplan's screenplay "Churchill," preventing Kaplan from seeing his film come to fruition with economic rewards. The case was filed by Foley Bezek Behle & Curtis. The case is 2:20-cv-11229, Kaplan v. NBCUniversal Media LLC et al. Stay up on the latest litigation with the new Law.com Radar.
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