This is not your parents’ legal marketplace

By: Matthew J. Prinn and Katie Reagan
Published: January 30, 2013

Tags: billable hours, fees, project management, technology

“This is not your father’s Oldsmobile.”

You may recall that famous advertising slogan from the 1980s. One could use a similar phrase when describing today’s legal marketplace. Changes in billing methods, improvements in technology, a turbulent economy and the globalization of the legal practice have left us with a landscape far different from the one we worked in even a decade ago.

Bankruptcy bar takes aim at ‘unfair’ fee proposal

By: David Frank
Published: June 28, 2012

Tags: billing, Chapter 11, Executive Office for U.S. Trustees, fees

A controversial fee proposal from the Executive Office for U.S. Trustees is receiving a cold reception from bankruptcy lawyers, with some even threatening to leave the practice if the policy is implemented.

Sprint reaches $19 million settlement on cellphone charges

Published: June 21, 2012

Tags: cell phone service, class action, fees, improperly charged, Sprint

Sprint Nextel Corp has entered into a $19 million settlement to resolve a lawsuit by U.S. customers who accused the mobile service provider of improperly charging them for using their cell phones to send pictures.