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New Jersey Law Journal

Employers' Entitlement to Legal Fees: Is It Time to Tilt Back the NJLAD Playing Field?

Fee-shifting incentivizes plaintiffs' employment lawyers to accept specious cases, knowing that most employers settle because they cannot afford both defense costs and the risk of having to pay plaintiffs' legal fees. How can this problem caused by fee-shifting be ameliorated?
7 minute read

Daily Report Online

Lawyers Seek to Collect $278K in Attorney Fees After Arbitration Award; Challenge 'Rule 68'

"They say that, because the case started in superior court, that it is subject to Rule 68," argued appellee attorney David J. Marmins. "They do not cite a case for this. There's no statute, no rule, regulation nor law."
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

What Litigators Charged: Bracewell's Fixed Rate Shaved $6 Million in Attorney Fees

"The 2017 agreement resulted in an increasing discount, valued at approximately $6,011,560, to BMC over time." said U.S. Sr. District Judge Gray H. Miller
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

As Billing Rates Skyrocket, Historic Fee Leaders Find Company at $2,000 Per Hour

Weil, Kirkland, Skadden and Latham once outpaced the rest of Big Law on what they could charge, but that may begin to change.
6 minute read

Law.com

$105M in Attorney Fees? Lawyers Could Seek Landmark Payment in T-Mobile Breach Settlement

Plaintiff lawyers in the $350 million data breach agreement with T-Mobile, reached on Friday, have indicated they could ask for as much as 30% of the settlement fund, or $105 million.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Exits From Baker & Hostetler's IP Group Continue as Rate Pressures Mount

Two more attorneys have joined the four who left for Ice Miller last month, while another partner is set to join Blank Rome. Several have cited rising rates to explain their moves.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

With Governor Hochul Having Failed To Protect New York's Children and Families, the Last Hope Is the New York State Judiciary

If there were ever a question as to why separation of powers is vital to our democracy as I tried to explain to my daughter, as to why the system of checks and balances is crucial to protect our citizens, there is no better exemplar than this case.
10 minute read

International Edition

3 Am Law 50 Firms Continue to Struggle to Withdraw From Representing Sanctioned Russian Banks

Latham & Watkins and its client, VTB Bank, have already missed two deadlines to get substitute counsel to file an appearance notice, and requested, in a letter addressed to a federal judge, an additional two-week extension until July 7.
5 minute read

Pro Mid Market

Midsize Firms Haven't Raised Rates as Much as Big Law, But That Could Help in a Downturn

Rate flexibility is also helping midsize firms land partners and clients that are being priced out of Big Law.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

After Arbitration, Houston Plaintiffs Lawyers End Fight Over Capital Account

Houston plaintiffs lawyer Steven Kherkher has dismissed the suit he filed against his former firm, Williams Hart Boundas Easterby, and two of its partners, as a judge confirmed an arbitration award that sets the value of Kherkher's capital account.
2 minute read

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