Ross Todd

September 08, 2010 | Law.com

A study of more than $4 billion worth of law firm time sheets submitted by 90,000 people at 3,500 firms portrays an industry fraught with inconsistency. About 85 percent of the lawyers charge clients different rates for the same work. The location of the biller and the size of the biller's firm -- not the biller's experience -- are the variables that most influence how much a client will pay. And while in-house counsel talk tough about keeping rates in check, they OK almost three-fourths of all timekeepers' rate hikes.

By Ross Todd

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April 22, 2011 | The American Lawyer

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August 10, 2009 | The American Lawyer

There are no fewer than 43 amicus briefs already on file in the case that will determine the standard for business method patents. And the folks on the government's side are yet to chime in.

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August 27, 2010 | The American Lawyer

"You can surely absorb this," Manhattan federal district court judge Alvin Hellerstein told lawyers representing the workers on Friday.

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December 08, 2008 | The American Lawyer

After seven long years of litigation, Wildman Harrold--and the family of a young man killed in a 1996 drive-by Hamas shooting in Israel--received a measure of vindication last week, when an en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reinstated a $156 million judgment against two U.S.-based Islamic groups.

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January 05, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Plaintiffs lawyers were granted $315 million in common benefit funds from the $4.85 billion settlement that Merck reached in the Vioxx multidistrict litigation in 2007. But they won't get a share of the $950 million settlement that the federal government and more than 40 states reached with the drug maker last November.

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August 01, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

David Lubben (78) UnitedHealth Group Incorporated

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March 11, 2010 | The American Lawyer

The jury was out for more than three weeks, but a guy who ran 105 marathons in a single year certainly had the stamina to wait it out--especially since his client won in the end.

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July 20, 2010 | The American Lawyer

This one's a real head-scratcher. Did Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg sign over a big ownership stake to an obscure software developer in 2004 when he was a Harvard undergrad and his now-ubiquitous social networking site was just an idea? His Orrick lawyers don't deny he signed a contract with the software developer, but at a hearing in Buffalo federal court Tuesday they said there are all kinds of reasons to doubt the developer's story.

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June 04, 2010 | The American Lawyer

Here's the full-bodied tale of Bill Koch, who bought $75,000 of wine he later alleged to be fraudulent. He sued to get his money back, but a New York appeals court said he should have known better than to rely on the auction house's description.

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