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Greenberg Traurig Will Return $3.2 Million in Improper Legal Fees

Greenberg Traurig has agreed to pay back $3.2 million in legal fees to Calumet Park that former attorney and shareholder Mark J. McCombs…

The National Law Journal is reporting that software company George Sutton & Associates Inc. is suing DLA Piper for allegedly…

A court-appointed trustee and a Manhattan law firm, who have been working to unravel Bernard Madoff's massive fraud, have rung…

A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that former lawyer Steven F. Goldman should be denied almost $400,000 in…

In more overbilling news, Wilmer Pickering Hale & Dorr has lost a bid to toss out a fraud claim in…

A federal judge, citing excessive hours and unreasonably high rates, ordered a 20% reduction in fees for a law firm…

Evan R. Chesler, a Presiding Partner at New York's Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, has made a bold suggestion in…

Austin, Texas-based appellate boutique Alexander Dubose Jones & Townsend is reducing its billing rates in current hourly-fee cases by 10%…

Sidley Austin lawyers are asking as much as $1,100 an hour for bankruptcy work on Tribune Company, surpassing the rates…

Via LawCrossing.com: At year's end, white-shoe law firms race to collect the bulk of the year’s client fees by the…

Edward Ryan, a former partner at Holland & Knight's Chicago office, has been charged with inflating legal fees on a multimillion-dollar lawsuit.…

After defeating a lawsuit backed by powerful Hollywood studios, Sunnyvale's Kaleidescape has fired its lead trial lawyer and is refusing…