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By Alexander Lugo | October 20, 2023
"Associates are our most important asset," said Lawson Huck Gonzalez shareholder Jason Gonzalez, formerly the managing partner of Shutts & Bowen's Tallahassee office. "We're all busy as heck, and we have to have the highest quality associates to help us represent these clients."
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By Allison Dunn | October 20, 2023
U.S. District Senior Judge Rebecca Beach Smith of the Eastern District of Virginia approved the final settlement agreement between a class of drug purchasers and pharmaceutical companies, Merck & Co., and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, which also requires the defendants to pay one-third of the settlement fund in attorney fees, or $23 million, as well as $3.9 million in costs—as requested by plaintiffs' counsel.
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By Daniel J. Siegel | October 19, 2023
Pennsylvania Rule of Professional Conduct 1.5 governs the types of fees attorneys can charge and outlines the way fee agreements must be tailored. The Pennsylvania Rule is modeled after ABA Model Rule 1.5.
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By Jessie Yount | Maria Dinzeo | October 19, 2023
In-house leaders are increasingly looking to outside counsel to at the very least understand the technology, if not use it to drive their own business efficiencies.
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By Amanda Bronstad | October 16, 2023
Lead class counsel who reached a nearly $1.2 billion settlement with DuPont and a $10.5 billion deal with 3M are asking for nearly $1 billion in legal fees.
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By Adolfo Pesquera | October 13, 2023
The law firm's award of $83,509 for attorney fees was preserved, but not its bid to collect $117,689 for expenses.
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By Jason Bergman | October 10, 2023
The purpose of the voluntary payment doctrine is to bar recovery of payments voluntarily made with full knowledge of the facts and in the absence of fraud or mistake of material fact or law. The applicable law is presented in a recent case: 'ECI Financial Corp. v. Resurrection Temple of Our Lord, Inc.'
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By Alex Anteau | Thomas Spigolon | October 9, 2023
Burke and Moore contend they are just two of "a continuing exodus of partners and other attorneys" leaving Drew Eckl & Farnham because of inequitable compensation, according to court papers.
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By Adolfo Pesquera | October 9, 2023
"Appellants' arguments that Texas law, not federal bankruptcy law, controls are incorrect. We find the pre-petition payment doesn't affect the debtor's equitable interest in them at the time the petition was filed," wrote Fifth Circuit Judge Stephen A. Higginson.
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By Zack Needles | October 6, 2023
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