The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | April 8, 2020
The opinion clarifies that without agreements between initiating and successor firms, law firms disgruntled over fee disputes can only sue the client and not the subsequent law firm on the case.
By Amanda Bronstad | March 25, 2020
A federal judge has dismissed a legal malpractice lawsuit against six law firms in New Jersey and Texas accused of using invalid retainer agreements to charge excessive contingency fees for thousands of clients suing over transvaginal mesh devices. The firms included Nagel Rice and the Potts Law Firm.
By Suzette Parmley | March 13, 2020
The appeals challenged a combined award of roughly $614,000 to Connell Foley, Borteck & Czapek and Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis.
Connecticut Law Tribune | News|Q&A
By Robert Storace | March 10, 2020
The Connecticut Law Tribune sat down with Brian Staines, the state's chief disciplinary counsel, and asked him five questions pertaining to attorney discipline, and the advice he'd give to lawyers facing grievance complaints or ethics charges.
By Scott Graham | March 6, 2020
A special master has high marks for Apple's fee-shifting request, but Cisco Systems gets tripped up by flat-fee arrangements.
By Scott Graham | March 6, 2020
A special master says Cisco refused to follow U.S. District Judge William Alsup's specific instructions for documenting its flat-fee arrangement with two law firms.
By Amanda Bronstad | February 28, 2020
In an effort to reach a potential $22 billion cash global settlement of opioid lawsuits, lawyers are clashing over who should get attorney fees. Dozens of states, cities and counties have opposed a proposed 7% hold back on opioid settlements that would pay for common benefit fees and costs incurred by lead counsel in the multidistrict litigation.
By Scott Graham | February 24, 2020
U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar says that while some of RideApp and Kasowitz Benson Torres' conduct was "questionable," it didn't rise to the level of "exceptional" that triggers fee shifting.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | February 21, 2020
The dispute, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, stemmed from a $44 million settlement secured for a Texas oilfield worker who was paralyzed after an improperly attached light fixture on an oil derrick fell more than 100 feet onto his head.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Zack Needles | February 20, 2020
A Pennsylvania lawyer who was paid for legal services by the daughter of an incapacitated woman is under no obligation to return that money to the estate, despite an Orphans' Court's finding that the fee was paid using funds that were unlawfully transferred to the daughter.
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