In The News

       As reported by Lou Ponsi in the October 26, 2012 online issue of The Orange County Register, Brea City Council candidate Steve Vargas brought a suit challenging the city clerk’s alleged omission in allowing attribution of oppositions to two ballot measures to the entire city council rather than just two city councilmen who […]

  However, Law Partners At Top Firms Now Make 23 Times What Average U.S. Worker Makes, Up From 11 Times From 25 Years Ago.      In her October 15, 2012 post at the ABA Law Journal, Debra Cassens Weiss indicates that Bruce MacEwen believes that U.S. law firms are offering cut-rate fees to clients to

       We thank our friends at the National Association of Legal Fee Analyses (NALFA) for recent posts on its Attorney Fee Blog, which we have culled and now summarize for you. U.S. Trustee Proposed Guidelines.      NALFA’s September 1, 2012 post: The U.S. Trustees Program met in May of this year to discuss proposed

  B of A Discount Proposal to Attorneys Getting More Customer Referrals From It Draws Uproar.      As reported by Debra Cassens Weiss in an October 11, 2012 post on the ABA Journal, some legal experts are in an uproar over the Bank of America seeking a credit on its annual attorney’s fees payables based

  Had Requested $778,535, But Court Rejected the Request.      As reported by Ryan Abbott in an October 5, 2012 post at Courthouse News Service, Winston Strawn attorney Ernest Fleischer saved shareholders of defunct S&L Benj. Franklin Federal Savings and Loan Association a huge amount of taxes–cutting a $1.2 billion tax IRS claim down to

  Acritas Survey on 2011 General Counsel Reasons for Dropping Outside Counsel Reports Results.      Debra Cassens Weiss, in an October 2, 2012 post at the ABA Journal, informs us that Acritas, a UK-based market research firm, conducted a phone survey of a couple thousand general counsel in about 45 countries, asking them about terminating

  $250,000 Goes to Plaintiffs’ Attorneys; UC Spent More Than $1 Million Defending The Case, With $320,000 to Outside Firm For Protest Response Advice.      As reported by Terence Chea of the Associated Press in a September 26, 2012 release, the University of California has agreed to pay $1 million to 21 plaintiff demonstrators who

  NALP Survey Results on First Year Lawyer Compensation.      As reported by Debra Cassens Weiss in a September 20, 2012 post in the on-line version of the American Bar Association Journal, NALP (the Association for Legal Career Professionals) has published survey results of 570 U.S. law firms about the average compensation for first year

       As reported by Amaris Elliott-Engel in a September 21, 2012 post at Corporate Counsel, over 150 lawyers from 50 plaintiff law firms are seeking court approval of disbursing up to $143,75 million in attorney’s fees and costs based upon the “common benefit” doctrine in the federal Avandia multidistrict litigation, where 65,000 claims have