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For Law Firms, It's from Alternative Fees to Alternative Business Models

Evolve Law panelists discussed how technology plays a part in changing the billable hour and the law firm partner structure.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Federal Circuit Faces Facts: District Judges Call Shots on Fee Awards

Appellate jurists suggest Eastern District ignored their instructions, but there's not much they can do about it.
10 minute read

National Law Journal

Federal Circuit Faces Facts: District Judges Call Shots on Fee Awards

Appellate jurists suggest Eastern District ignored their instructions, but there's not much they can do about it.
10 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

In the Interest of: P.S., a minor, PICS Case No. 17-0460 (Pa. Super. March 17, 2017) Olson, J. (17 pages).

By | April 04, 2017
Trial court erred in adjudicating minor delinquent on offense of flight to avoid apprehension where minor was not charged with a crime or awaiting sentencing at the time of flight. Order of the trial court affirmed.
7 minute read

Delaware Law Weekly

Marathon Patent's Refusal to Pay Fee Deemed 'Unreasonable'

Chief Judge Leonard Stark says the IP monetization shop owes Medtronic $600K under "the only reasonable interpretation" of a settlement deal.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Montgomery McCracken Loses Counsel Fee Scrap With Bankruptcy Client

Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads will have to accept even less than what it claims it bargained for when it agreed to a fee reduction in a bankruptcy case, thanks to a federal judge's ruling.
25 minute read

Litigation Daily

When Insurers Refused to Pay Verizon's $48M Legal Bill, This Lawyer Hit Back

McKool Smith insurance recovery practice head Robin Cohen won big in Delaware, forcing insurers to pay Verizon's massive legal bill to several elite firms that successfully defended the company after a failed spin-off.
25 minute read

New York Law Journal

2 States, 2 Levels of Punishment in Attorney Discipline Case

An attorney who was disbarred in New Jersey for misappropriation of client funds has received a lighter sanction—three years' suspension—in New York, where he is also licensed to practice, for the same incident of misconduct.
11 minute read

New York Law Journal

Legal Fees: What Happens When Principles of Law or Ethics Conflict?

In his Professional Responsibility column, Anthony E. Davis reviews the Court of Appeals decision on whether to enforce the plain language of a contract between two lawyers for sharing legal fees when the lawyers had not complied with the requirements of the Rules of Professional Conduct, and a New York City Bar ethics opinion on reconciling the duty to report a lawyer's fraudulent billing and the duty to preserve confidentiality.
18 minute read

New York Law Journal

Furgang & Adwar, LLP v. S.A. International, Inc.

By | March 09, 2017
Defendants Directed to Supplement Responses to Plaintiff's Discovery Demands
3 minute read

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