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The American Lawyer

GE Prepares to Vet Next Slate of Go-To Law Firms

How firms can win work from a general counsel who sets “value as his North Star and diversity as his passion.”
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Morelli Denied Enhanced Fee in Seven-Year-Long Med Mal Case

The Manhattan-based firm, led by famed civil litigator Benedict Morelli, was sufficiently compensated when it was paid $376,198.50 for 970 hours of legal services, in accordance with Judiciary Law § 474-a(2).
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Jones Day Seeks $446K in Fees From EEOC After 'Baseless Suit' Goes Nowhere

Jones Day lawyers are seeking hundreds of thousands in legal fees from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, saying federal regulators unfairly targeted CVS Pharmacy Inc. for alleged employment abuses that no judge sustained. Eric Dreiband, the lead partner for CVS in the litigation, is the Trump administration's pick to lead the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. The dispute provides a peek into the billing practices of Jones Day.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Ropes & Gray DQ'd in Calif. Case After Ignoring Client Ultimatum

"An attorney cannot just ignore his or her client and then assume that the client terminated the relationship," U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Corley wrote in an order disqualifying Ropes & Gray from a false advertising suit.
5 minute read

International Edition

Former Baker Botts Lawyers Launch Hong Kong Boutique

With agile legal offering, hands-on partner support and flexible fee arrangements, GPS Legal sets out to be more efficient than Big Law.
3 minute read

International Edition

Former Baker Botts Lawyers Launch Hong Kong Boutique

With agile legal offering, hands-on partner support and flexible fee arrangements, GPS Legal sets out to be more efficient than Big Law.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Swimming With Sharks—Well, Sort of

 St. Mary's Law School professor Bill Piatt and his son Bob Piatt, a San Antonio attorney, completed a San Francisco swim that has claimed…
7 minute read

Daily Report Online

Lawyers Battle Over Special Prosecutor Role in Gambling Cases

A former state attorney general claims an Atlanta lawyer who works as a special assistant district attorney leverages the threat of criminal prosecution against vulnerable business owners to lay claim to their assets.
6 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Willful Blindness Doesn't Hold Up for Lawyers Accused of Crimes

Another Connecticut attorney has gone to jail after pleading guilty to a crime and had his license suspended for a long time. One of the purposes…
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Mueller's 'Elegant Trap' May Signal Money Problems for Manafort, Lawyers

Plus: What happened to Rick Gates' lawyer at Vinson & Elkins?
3 minute read

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