According to a recent article published by the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Housing Authority has spent an astonishing $38.5 million on outside legal counsel in…
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The City of Mercer Island recently settled a $1,000,000 sex discrimination case with one of its employees, but there’s still work to do in the…
Last week, the National Law Journal reported that MGA Entertainment has agreed to discovery master Robert O’Brien’s recommendation that it be awarded $108 million in…
A Sampling of Legal Fee News from around the country… Lawyer: Rosa Parks’ Estate was drained (Detroit Free Press – 7/21) – A filing in…
The Boston Globe recently reported that Attorney General Martha Coakley is asking regulators to investigate the more than $18 million in legal fees New England…
Judge Rya Zobel, of the District of Massachusetts court, awarded $678,435.00 in attorney fees and expenses to a wine association after an almost five-year suit…
When internal pressures mount to cut the legal fees, here are 5 quick unacceptable billing practices to examine legal invoices for. Block Billing: Billing time…
A Sampling of Legal Fee News from around the country… Red Flags That You Hired the Wrong Divorce Lawyer (Huffington Post – 7/12) – Laurie…
The District Court of Massachusetts recently cut an attorneys’ fee request by 83%. In Joyce v. Town of Dennis, 2011 WL 2632148 (D.Mass.) , the…
The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky has uncovered a massive legal overbilling scandal stretching back to 2006. Larry Zielke, originally with Pedley, Zielke, Gordinier & Pence…
