Ralph Lerner, a former Sidley Austin partner, was suspended for one year by an Appellate Division, First Department panel, for charging “car service rides for…
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On Monday, Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan defended Detroit’s bankruptcy filing as a final effort to prevent the city’s lengthy financial decline. “‘This is a…
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Every year the law department for the city of Birmingham, Alabama has the same goal – “To continue to decrease the number of cases referred…
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A report released by Citizens Property Insurance stated that the insurer spent a little more than $100 million in legal fees over the past two…
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On September 25, 2013, Hong Kong businessman Richard Suen was awarded $1.03 million in attorneys’ fees to cover expenses for his six-week trial. This was…
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A federal judge recently slashed the legal fees of a law firm that tried to charge its $200 per hour associate rate for work done…
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Several months ago Ben Swift, an attorney in the Dayton, Ohio area, made headlines as the “highest paid court-appointed attorney in the state of Ohio.”…
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Recently, a million dollar settlement between a class of service technicians and their employer, Benco Dental Supply, was approved by a federal judge. U.S District…
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As we reported at the end of 2011, the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal was supposed to cost Penn State a few million in legal fees,…
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Lehman filed for bankruptcy in September 2008, and in the five years following, has amassed about $2.2 billion in legal fees. In March 2012, Lehman…
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