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Daily Business Review

How This Boutique Florida Law Firm Lowered Overhead and Offered Big Law Salaries to Associates

"Associates are our most important asset," said Lawson Huck Gonzalez shareholder Jason Gonzalez, formerly the managing partner of Shutts & Bowen's Tallahassee office. "We're all busy as heck, and we have to have the highest quality associates to help us represent these clients."
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Law.com

Merck, Glenmark Settle Zetia Antitrust Litigation for $70M, Including $23M in Attorney Fees

U.S. District Senior Judge Rebecca Beach Smith of the Eastern District of Virginia approved the final settlement agreement between a class of drug purchasers and pharmaceutical companies, Merck & Co., and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, which also requires the defendants to pay one-third of the settlement fund in attorney fees, or $23 million, as well as $3.9 million in costs—as requested by plaintiffs' counsel.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Keep the Big Bad Wolf Away: Review and Revise Your Flat Fee Agreements

Pennsylvania Rule of Professional Conduct 1.5 governs the types of fees attorneys can charge and outlines the way fee agreements must be tailored. The Pennsylvania Rule is modeled after ABA Model Rule 1.5.
9 minute read

The American Lawyer

With the Rise of Generative AI, Legal Departments Lean on Law Firms as 'Business Partners' More Than Ever

In-house leaders are increasingly looking to outside counsel to at the very least understand the technology, if not use it to drive their own business efficiencies.
8 minute read

Law.com

Lawyers in Water Settlements With 3M and DuPont Want Nearly $1B in Legal Fees

Lead class counsel who reached a nearly $1.2 billion settlement with DuPont and a $10.5 billion deal with 3M are asking for nearly $1 billion in legal fees.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Good News and Bad for Law Firm Seeking Attorney Fees Through Veil-Piercing

The law firm's award of $83,509 for attorney fees was preserved, but not its bid to collect $117,689 for expenses.
4 minute read

International Edition

'It's Cut-Throat': What Elite Barristers Really Think About Their Instructing Solicitors

Law.com International spoke with silks and senior juniors at the major London commercial sets about the 'beauty pageant' of selection, getting 'screwed' on fees, and the evolving barrister-solicitor bond.
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

Legal Fees, the Voluntary Payment Doctrine and Title

The purpose of the voluntary payment doctrine is to bar recovery of payments voluntarily made with full knowledge of the facts and in the absence of fraud or mistake of material fact or law. The applicable law is presented in a recent case: 'ECI Financial Corp. v. Resurrection Temple of Our Lord, Inc.'
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

'The Death Rattle of a Once-Great Firm': Inside the Split Between Drew Eckl and Burke Moore Law Group

Burke and Moore contend they are just two of "a continuing exodus of partners and other attorneys" leaving Drew Eckl & Farnham because of inequitable compensation, according to court papers.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Plaintiffs Pitted Against Each Other as Insurance Settlement in Doubt

"Appellants' arguments that Texas law, not federal bankruptcy law, controls are incorrect. We find the pre-petition payment doesn't affect the debtor's equitable interest in them at the time the petition was filed," wrote Fifth Circuit Judge Stephen A. Higginson.
3 minute read

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