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Tag Archives: Over Billing
“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
“Reality Check for Law Firms” – A Panel Discussion
Last week, Legal Marketing Association held a panel discussion entitled “Reality Check for Law Firms,” during which in-house counsel from MetLife, Elizabeth Arden Inc., and Coby Electronics Corporation “dished on the good, the bad, and the ugly of doing business … 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
Posted in Billing
Tagged Attorneys, Awareness, Caveat Emptor, Clients, Fee Disputes, Litigation, Over Billing
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Caveat Emptor – Legal Buyer Beware
In December 2011, Debra Cassens Weiss posted an article on the ABA Journal website titled Suit by Fired Lawyer Claims Law Firm Encouraged Fraud with 3000-Hour Billable Quota. The article reported on a California lawyer’s employment bias law suit alleging he … Continue reading
Billing Fraud: Past, Present . . . and Future?
Now that LPR has been established, we are receiving information from interested people about issues legal consumers face. One such person sent us a link to an article published in 1999, written by Catholic University law professor Lisa Lerman, titled Blue-Chip … Continue reading
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Tagged Attorneys, Billing Fraud, Clients, False Billing, Fraudulent Billing, Lawyers, Legal Consumer, Over Billing
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