By Max Mitchell | April 20, 2021
"Though the two attorneys never formalized their arrangement in writing ... that does not mean that they were unbound by contract," Third Circuit Judge Peter Phipps wrote for the panel.
By Charles Toutant | April 16, 2021
"The nature of and deterioration of the attorney/client relationship, exhibited throughout the hearing, justified Mr. Stone's good-faith belief that the representation could not ethically be continued," Judge Thomas Vena ruled.
The Legal Intelligencer | Analysis
By Justin Henry | April 14, 2021
There may be an uptick in cases, mirroring what happened in the mid-2010s after the Great Recession, lawyers who represent law firms say.
By Amanda Bronstad | April 5, 2021
The $202 million in attorney fees requested by lawyers who obtained a settlement for residents of Flint, Michigan, faces objections in court, and in public.
By Robert Storace | March 23, 2021
A federal judge ruled that the firm, which was in a two-year legal battle with a former client, is entitled to $980,451 in attorney fees.
By Suzette Parmley | December 23, 2020
Justice Barry Albin said "for an arbitration provision in a retainer agreement to be enforceable, an attorney must generally explain to a client the benefits and disadvantages of arbitrating a prospective dispute between the attorney and client."
New Jersey Law Journal | Analysis
By John D. Rue | August 27, 2020
If more private practice lawyers embrace the private public interest law firm model, both they and society are likely to benefit.
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.
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.
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