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Law firms’ excessive fees, Part II: “DLA Piper Is Not Alone: Why Law Firms Overbill”
28 March 2013– Coming hot and heavy after the New York Times piece (click here) on the lawsuit involving DLA Piper and law firm over billing (“churn that bill, baby!”) comes —
Continue readingThe DLA Piper law suit offers a peek at the practice of inflating a legal bill
26 March 2013– Ah, The Law Factory. A few weeks ago we had a U.S. District Court ordering a law firm to hand over information about contract attorneys it employed with respect to a lawsuit
Continue readingContract lawyer in U.S. claims he is entitled to OT pay due to “extremely routine nature” of the job; seeks class action status
6 March 2013– A lawyer who performed document review for Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan on a contract basis claims in a lawsuit that he is entitled to overtime pay for work in excess
Continue readingFirm must divulge information on contract lawyers in Citigroup case; challenge to firm’s “excessive” fees
5 March 2013 – Last week the federal judge in In re Citigroup Inc. Securities Litigation, a shareholder lawsuit against Citigroup being heard in the U.S. District Court, Southern District
Continue readingProblems persist with law school jobs data, watchdog says
5 March 2013 – The American Bar Association now requires law schools to be more upfront about how their graduates perform on the job market, but problems with misleading or incomplete employment
Continue readingABA Task Force looks at law school reforms; might add limited-license category of practitioner
14 February 2013– The American Bar Association Task Force on the Future of Law Schools met over the weekend. Some news reports suggest that the task force is taking their charge seriously. ABC
Continue readingTo repeat … there is no, NO, oversupply of lawyers. Or so says the Dean of Case Western Law School
9 January 2013 — Ummm … then why is Case Western’s Employment Score as tabulated by Law School Transparency only 46.3% with an Under-Employment Score of 37.8%? Case Western Dean Lawrence
Continue readingYou’re the Head of Government? Need to run the country? There’s an app for that!
3 December 2012– There was a great piece in The New York Times a few days ago (for the story click here) about David Cameron (Britain’s prime minister) and his passion for his iPad, one of
Continue readingHP, Autonomy, allegations of fraud … and terabytes of analysis
23 November 2012 – So Hewlett-Packard (HP) has written down $8.8 billion of the value of Autonomy, the British software company it bought last year, after discovering that Autonomy misrepresented
Continue readingHow Big Data, cloud computing, Amazon and poll quants won the U.S. election
16 November 2012– In the U.S., for more than a year, a group of what the reporters described as “math geeks and data wizards” worked long days creating elaborate statistical models to
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