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A Last-Ditch Effort To Collect Fees
It is often the ugly end to a once-promising relationship, and it's a step that law firms try to avoid taking. But when economic times aren't flush, some law firms are getting aggressive and filing lawsuits against clients to collect fees. "It's not something we do lightly," said Julia B. Morris, managing partner of O'Connell, Flaherty Attmore in Hartford. "Clients are having a tough time across the board, and our preference is to find some middle ground" to resolve fee disputes.The Growing Pains of an IP Practice
By Ben Hallman, The American LawyerWhen Morgan, Lewis Bockius scooped up Dennis Mondolino's 35-lawyer patent boutique in 2001, it was supposed to be a feather in the cap for the firm and its intellectual property practice. The boutique, the former Hopgood Calimafde Judlowe Mondolino of New York, had high-profile clients and a solid reputation for patent litigation, which seemed to fit with Morgan's goals.So Long, Farewell: For Attorney Headcount, 2009 Worst Year in Three Decades, Survey Shows
The United States' largest law firms this year suffered the deepest cuts in their attorney numbers since Legal affiliate The National Law Journal began tracking their census figures more than 30 years ago.Circuit Rejects Korean University's Defamation Suit Against Yale
The Second Circuit said there was no actual malice in mistaken statements made by former Yale deputy general counsel Susan Carney, now a judge on the court, about the bogus claim of a professor Dongguk University hired who said she had earned a doctorate at the Ivy League school.Firm finesses a major rainmaker's transition
An entertainment boutique's younger partners are steadily building their own practices.High court limits SEC's time to seek civil penalties
In seeking civil penalties for fraud, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission must bring an enforcement action within five years of the alleged misconduct, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday. The court rejected the SEC's argument that the clock should start running from the date the fraud was discovered, or at least could have been discovered.Trending Stories
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