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Yet Another Cautionary Tale
In 2000, Elizabeth Berardi hired New York law firm Phillips Nizer to help negotiate and draft a post-nuptial agreement with her husband. According to a May 17, 2016 article on abajournal.com titled, “Judge OKs malpractice suit over law firm’s successful … Continue reading
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Tagged ABA Journal, Elizabeth Berardi, Fee Disputes, Law Firm, Legal, Legal Consumer, Litigation, Over Billing, Phillips Nizer, Post-nuptial Agreement
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If It Can Happen To 50 Cent . . . It Can Happen To You
Rapper 50 Cent’s legal bills are under scrutiny by a Connecticut bankruptcy court. 50 Cent filed for bankruptcy after losing an invasion of privacy case for posting a woman’s sex tape online, in which the jury awarded her $7 million. Now, … Continue reading
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Tagged 50 Cent, Bankruptcy, Excessive Billing, Fee Disputes, Lawsuit, Legal, Legal Consumer
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“Is Your Lawyer’s Bill Too High?”
We have written about HALT.org (Help Abolish Legal Tyranny) in previous posts and its work for transparency in attorney discipline and reporting on state bar associations’ secrecy in the handling of attorney ethics complaints. HALT also has a number of self-help brochures … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Billing Fraud, False Billing, Fee Disputes, Fraudulent Billing, HALT, Legal, Legal Reform, Over Billing
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Manhattan Judge Rules For The Legal Consumer
Manhattan Civil Court Judge Frank P. Nervo recently ordered attorney Ronny Buni to repay his former clients, Gerald and Vivian Klienerman, over $21,000 of the $22,000+ in fees they paid him, plus interest. Attorney Buni had filed a civil suit … Continue reading
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Tagged Fee Arbitration, Fee Disputes, Frank Nervo, Judges, Klienerman, Legal Consumer, Litigation, New York Daily News, Over Billing, Ronny Buni
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“Churn That Bill, Baby!”
So wrote a lawyer from DLA Piper, a prominent international law firm, in an email to another firm lawyer celebrating the assignment of “random people working full time on random research projects in standard ‘churn that bill, baby!’ mode . . .” … Continue reading
Reasons Big Corporations Fire Law Firms – Consumers and Law Firms Take Note
Aric Press of The American Lawyer recently reported on a survey released by Acritas, a U.K.–based market research firm, detailing the reasons thousands of blue-chip corporations have fired their outside law firms. Acritas cited four recurring reasons: too expensive (21 … Continue reading
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Tagged Attorneys, Client-Side Manner, Clients, Conflict of Interest, Fee Disputes, Over Billing, Work Ethic
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Caveat Emptor – Corporate Clients Need to Beware, Too
A corporate client filed a legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit on August 27, 2012 against the law firm and attorneys representing it in several securities class action litigations. The lawsuit includes allegations that the firm and attorneys … Continue reading
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Tagged Attorneys, Awareness, Caveat Emptor, Clients, Fee Disputes, Litigation, Over Billing
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Legal Consumer Tip #1 – Take Notes
Dear legal consumers, We ran across a very interesting blog post by Eric Cooperstein, a Minnesota lawyer who defends attorneys facing ethics complaints and fee disputes. On Lawyerist.com: (law-yer-ist) n. The lawyering survival guide, Mr. Cooperstein posted Avoid Ethics Complaints by … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Attorneys, Clients, Fee Disputes, Lawyers, Legal Consumer, Legal Ethics, Taking Notes
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