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December 07, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Billing Rates Inch Upward, Survey Shows

Billing rates continued to climb in 2010 -- but by only a fraction of the rate they grew during the boom years of the mid-2000s.
8 minute read
November 21, 2011 | National Law Journal

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Profile of Scott Douglas, general counsel for Leggett & Platt Inc.
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August 06, 2012 | National Law Journal

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December 06, 2010 | National Law Journal

Billing Blues

Billing rates continued to climb in 2010 — but by only a fraction of the rate they grew during the boom years of the mid-2000s. The average firmwide billing rate — a combination of associate and partner rates — increased by 2.7% in 2010, according to our annual survey of hourly billing rates. It's the second straight year of growth rates less than 3%, which is a far cry from the standard 6% to 8% increases from 2004 until 2008 and just slightly higher than the rate of inflation.
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October 11, 2011 | Law.com

Mexico's New Class Action Law Opens a Litigation Frontier

The first class action law in Mexico's history goes into effect March 1, 2012, which has legal professionals on both sides of the border preparing for how the law will play out among potential litigants.
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May 20, 2010 | Daily Business Review

4th DCA strikes down Broward judge's gag order

The 4th District Court of Appeal has erased a gag order placed on attorneys in a Broward Circuit case involving Ecuadorean shrimp farmers suing DuPont for crop losses blamed on the company's pesticide Benlate.
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September 02, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Proposal to Amend Rule 11 Introduced in Congress

Ann M. Odelson and Timothy B. Parlin of Carroll, McNulty & Kull discuss whether the amendment to Rule 11, which attempts to reduce frivolous lawsuits, will be enacted, and how without the serious threat of punishment for filing these lawsuits, innocent individuals and companies will continue to face the harsh economic reality that simply paying off frivolous claimants is often cheaper than litigating the case.
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November 09, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

Forum Challenge Appeal Rejected in Drug Lawsuit

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has denied a petition for allowance of appeal filed by a group of out-of-state plaintiffs seeking to bring their PPA claims before Philadelphia's complex litigation center.
4 minute read
June 04, 2010 | Law.com

Fla. Suit Claims Tobacco Companies Get Break on Bonds Before Appeals

A team of plaintiffs attorneys is challenging the constitutionality of a Florida law capping appellate bonds for cigarette makers when they lose smoker lawsuits. The 2003 law, which benefits tobacco giants Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson and Lorillard, stands in stark contrast to the rules governing all other lawsuit losers in the state, who must post a bond equal to the judgment against them plus twice the normal rate of interest.
5 minute read
December 01, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

First Trial Under Fla. Tobacco Ruling to Begin

The widow of a smoker who died from lung cancer brings the nation's biggest cigarette producer to court this week in the first trial spawned by a Florida Supreme Court ruling that decreed smoking is dangerous and addictive and causes disease.
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