Looks Like Many Corporate Clients See Continued Used of Alternative Fee Arrangements.
According to data from Norton Rose Fulbright’s 2015 Litigation Trends Annual Survey (as summarized in the August 2015 edition of the ABA Journal), which polled law departments both in the U.S. and 26 countries based on 803 corporate counsel responses, alternative fee arrangements (AFAs) look to be here to stay and likely growing in preference by corporate law departments. 62% of U.S. respondents used AFAs, while 56% of all respondents (including some global law departments) used AFAs. 39% of the law firms saw some gain or no loss in providing clients with AFAs, although 41% of the law department respondents expected to increase use of AFAs and 57% expected to maintain the current level (with only 2% predicting a decline in AFA use).
ABA Journal’s Survey Of 10 Decades Of the Most Important Legal Films.
The ABA Journal debuted in 1915 and its August 2015 edition has a list of most important/influential legal films based on a poll of certain lawyers and film buffs voting on a ballot of 94 movies produced between 1915 and 2014. Here are the results:
1915-1924: (1) The People v. John Doe (1916); (2) The Majesty of the Law (1915); (3) The Man Without a Country (1917).
1925-1934: (1) The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928); (2) The Scarlet Letter (1926); (3) Blackmail (1929).
1935-1944: (1) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935); (2) Young Mr. Lincoln (1939); (3) The Ox-Bow Incident (1943).
1945-1954: (1) Adam’s Rib (1949); (2) The Caine Mutiny (1954); (3) Miracle on 34th Street (1947).
1955-1964: (1) 12 Angry Men (1957); (2) Anatomy of a Murder (1959); (3) Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) and To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) [tie vote].
1965-1974: (1) A Man for All Seasons (1966) and The Paper Chase (1973) [tie vote]; (2) In Cold Blood (1967); (3) Lenny (1974).
1975-1984: (1) The Verdict (1982); (2) Kramer vs. Kramer (1979); (3) Breaker Morant (1980).
1985-1994: (1) The Accused (1988), with one reviewer saying very close vote with Death and the Maiden; (2) A Few Good Men (1992); (3) Presumed Innocent (1990).
1995-2004: (1) Dead Man Walking (1995); (2) A Civil Action (1998); (3) The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996).
2005-2014: (1) The Social Network (2010); (2) North Country (2005); (3) Fracture (2007).