By Jenna Greene | August 17, 2017
Big law firms, the ones billing Trump full-freight—can make moral decisions about whom they choose to represent, whose agenda they want to help advance. Their response to the violence in Charlottesville? Crickets...
By Christine Simmons | August 16, 2017
Before he became U.S. ambassador to Israel, former Kasowitz Benson Torres bankruptcy partner David Friedman represented real estate heir Robert Durst, who is listed in Friedman's U.S. government ethics disclosure. The disclosure form also shows Friedman made about $2.7 million from his partnership share in 2016.
By Miriam Rozen | August 16, 2017
New billing models are about to sweep the industry, according to one law firm leader who says alternative fees helped catapult his firm onto The Am Law 200 just 14 years after he founded it.
By Miriam Rozen | August 15, 2017
Is running a trial practice at a corporate Phlia. firm "kind of like being the second-best ballerina in Galveston"? Maybe to these Houston litigators.
By Christine Simmons | August 14, 2017
A prolific, best-selling author who writes under the pen name Fern Michaels must pay more than $700,000 to her ex-attorney and onetime business partner, a federal judge in Manhattan has ruled.
By Miriam Rozen | August 11, 2017
For many firms, anxieties about alternative fees highlight a billable hour-based business model they've already left behind.
By Miriam Rozen | August 11, 2017
Plaintiffs in a 2-year-old lawsuit against Philadelphia's Duane Morris filed an amended petition that ups their damage calculations to over three-quarters of a billion dollars, according to Houston lawyer Tony Buzbee, who represents the investor group behind the suit.
By Jonathan Ringel | August 11, 2017
Firms hope to capitalize on the solar eclipse event, which hasn't occurred like this in the U.S. for 99 years. Courts in cities along the 70-mile-wide band where the moon will totally block the sun for a couple of minutes are expecting masses to descend on their cities.
By David Bario | August 10, 2017
Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, is no longer being represented by Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr as special…
By Meredith Hobbs | August 10, 2017
General counsel can try and reduce costs by demanding discounts or alternative fees from their outside counsel—but at the risk of pitting their own interests against those of the firm. An alternative could be collaborating with outside counsel to streamline processes so legal projects get done more efficiently and at a lower cost.
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