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The Realized Hour: How to Actually Collect on the Amount You Bill
Technology has changed the accounts receivable process for businesses in almost every industry, and legal is no exception.Too Many Write-Offs? It’s Not Them, It’s Your Outdated AR Process
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Smoker's Asbestos Claims Fall Short With Jury
The plaintiffs asked for about $15 million, but got nothing from four defendants, including Lorillard, which made cigarettes with asbestos filters back in the '50s.
New Chief for Santa Clara AD Office
Longtime Deputy Public Defender David Epps will become the first African-American to head any of the county's four legal departments.Housing Authority Stiffs its Lawyers, then Sues Them
After spending years fighting over how much it has to pay plaintiffs who've won three cases against it, the San Francisco Housing Authority is headed to court next week to battle its outside counsel over bills. Sheppard, Mullin signed on to help the agency out with a high-profile case in a 2001 engagement letter, signed by then-General Counsel Carl Williams. But now the two are locked in a $56,000 fee dispute, with the housing authority arguing that the signature from its GC wasn't enough to seal the deal.Smoker's Asbestos Claims Fall Short With Jury
A Los Angeles jury returned a defense verdict last week in a multimillion-dollar asbestos case against tobacco company Lorillard, a maker of cigarettes equipped with asbestos filters in the 1950s, and three other defendants. Defense lawyer David Thorne said that the jury seemed particularly swayed by an expert witness -- an emeritus public health professor at Harvard who is in his 90s and testified by videotape -- who told the jury how widely asbestos was used in the 1950s.
Judicial Profile: Ernest Goldsmith
Rephrasing lawyers' arguments and giving them a chance to respond is classic Ernest Goldsmith. "Do I seem to grasp your respective positions?" the San Francisco Superior Court judge asked plaintiff and defense attorneys at a recent hearing. Since Republican Gov. Pete Wilson appointed him in 1996, Goldsmith has gained a reputation among many attorneys as a particularly courteous and hardworking judge. He refrains from cutting lawyers off and lets them speak their piece.Trending Stories
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