Two law firms are likely to reap big fees from the $894 million settlement of lawsuits over the withdrawn painkiller Bextra and a similar anti-inflammatory medication, Celebrex, that is still…
Simpson Thacher will collect only $300,000 over the next six months for advising the Treasury Department on its bailout of financial institutions, a total based on slashed legal fees.
A Texas judge has refused to dismiss a claim that Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr committed fraud by overbilling for the defense of McAfee’s former chief executive officer.
Nice work if you can get it: In a fee application filed yesterday in federal bankruptcy court in New York, one of the nation’s most renowned corporate bankruptcy law practice…
A federal judge in Philadelphia blasted a lawyer for his “slip-shod submissions” to the court before slashing his requested attorney fees by about $154,000.
Morrison Cohen has been sued twice by former client Donald Trump. Now the New York law firm will be opposing him on behalf of a client sued in connection with…
Blinded in a workplace shooting four years ago that killed several others, 34-year-old Jamie Dolan also reportedly suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and panic attacks.
Sidley Austin was one of several law firms competing for a chance to represent an Oregon school district seeking U.S. Supreme Court review of an education ruling.
A New York federal judge has awarded a record $18.3 million to the most seriously injured victim of the 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash, but slashed the contingent fee due…
The former CEO of Brocade Communications has racked up more than $53 million in legal fees defending backdating charges, and $7 million of them have not been paid by the…
Updated: A New York law firm has filed a lawsuit against a counsel who worked there for just 54 days before becoming general counsel of a company that never paid…
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