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Appellate Division Complicates the Rules for Municipalities Charging Consultants' Fees Image

Appellate Division Complicates the Rules for Municipalities Charging Consultants' Fees

Steven M. Silverberg & Katherine Zalantis

In a case addressing what consulting fees (in particular attorneys' fees) can be charged to an applicant before a Zoning Board of Appeals, the Second Department in Landstein v. Town of LaGrange found that the Town had overreached its statutory authority.

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Only 30% of Workday Is Spent on Billable Hours, Report Says

Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

U.S. lawyers are still spending too little of their workday on billable hours, a year after an eye-opening report found lawyers devoted only 29% — 2.3 hours — of each eight-hour workday to billable hours.

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Cost Recovery in 2018: Predicting Winners and Losers

Rob Mattern

Back in March of this year, we predicted changes and trends the results of the 2018 Mattern Cost Recovery Survey would reveal. At that time, we got our…

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Salary Hikes Not So Impressive After Inflation

Scott Flaherty

Law firms have bumped up starting salaries for associates at top firms over the past few years, prompting Big Law clients to raise a stink about outsized salaries for junior lawyers. But it turns out that this pay falls short of past peaks when inflation is taken into account.

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Litigation Funders Face Their Hardest Sell: Big Law

Roy Strom & Ben Hancock

There Is More Money Than Ever In the Hands of Litigation Financiers, But Can They Convince Law Firms to Use It?

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The NLJ 500: Large Firm Growth Slows Amid Consolidation and Contraction Image

The NLJ 500: Large Firm Growth Slows Amid Consolidation and Contraction

Ryan Lovelace

Lawyer Counts Increased By 1%, But Large Firm Growth Was Slowed Due to Consolidation. Just Three of the Top Five Firms on the NLJ 500 Showed Total Lawyer Headcount Growth

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Lawyers and Accountants: Collaborators and Competitors

Mark A. Cohen

Lawyers and accountants are professional allies, but who controls integration and delivery of their services is another story.

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Will Law Firms Be Ready When the Next Recession Hits?

Dan Packel

<b><i>The Bottom Is Eventually Going to Drop on the U.S. Economy, and Many Law Firms Won't Be Positioned to Handle the Fallout</b></i><p>No economic expansion lasts forever. That's a hard-and-fast truth of macroeconomics, one that's on the minds of certain law firm leaders.

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Arbitration Impact on Attorney Fees and Film Company Principal

Stan Soocher

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reversed a district court's award of attorney fees to Sony Corp. under §505 of the Copyright Act for winning a ruling that a lawsuit over a Sony Music songwriting contest should be sent to arbitration.

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Prospering in the 'New Normal'

J. Mark Santiago

<b><i>Raising Costs and Declining Demand are Sapping Profits</b></i><p>The “New Normal” of today is one in which raising operating costs, associate salary increases, and reduced realization rates coupled with AFAs and demands from corporate counsel for reduced rates are sapping firm profits and there is no relief on the horizon. Law firm leaders, seeing current conditions, should be asking if there is a better way.

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