An arbitrator in Boston has ruled that Goodwin Procter must trim the $1.1 million bill of a real estate client by 55 percent, according to a story that appeared in the Boston Globe on Friday. (Hat Tip: The WSJ’s Law Blog and ABA Journal.)
The Globe notes that arbitrator Jeffrey Martin, a partner with Boston firm Burns & Levinson, determined that Goodwin Procter submitted “vague” invoices to Newton, Mass.-based Northland Investment Corporation, had “failed to provide a promised discount, and used too many of its attorneys to bill for the same legal tasks.”
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