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• Getting Through the Commercial Foreclosure Process

  
  gothinking.net — Authority: 153
  Financial problems hap from instance to instance for most people, but the worst outcome for anyone is to encounter their concept traded at a foreclosure auction. Once it is sold at auction, there is rattling not such you crapper do though there are some states that substance a cancellation period. That punctuation is ...
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• Do Married Attorneys Get A Special Tax Break Or Is It Just Bad English?

  
  Structured Settlements 4Real: What's Real in the Structured Settlements, Settlement Planning, Settlement Consulting and Litigation Recovery Management Space? — Authority: 430
  Todays financial literacy lesson concerns structured attorney fees , specifically where one of my industry collegaues flubs his lines when describing why to do them. He says " For married couples who file their taxes jointly under the present law, the highest marginal tax bracket surpasses 30 percent. A ...
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• Taking credit cards, payments is news?

  
  Sam Hasler's Indiana Divorce & Family Law Blog — Authority: 137
  Struggling South Florida Divorce Lawyers Offer Discounts, Accept Credit Cards came to me earlier this week from The ABA Journal. I cannot remember when I did not take payments - or of any lawyers in my area who did not do likewise.  I have been taking credit/debit cards since last year.  (Yes, there are some who ...
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• DOJ Drops All Money-Laundering Charges Against Miami Lawyer

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 634
  Federal prosecutors asked Wednesday to dismiss the drug money-laundering case against Miami criminal defense lawyer Ben Kuehne. "I have had throughout a deep and abiding belief that things would turn out well in the end, Kuehne said in a statement provided to the Miami Herald. "However, I did not know the end result ...
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• What In-House Counsel Want: Relationship Building and Quick Answers

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 634
  Sometimes legal costs aren’t the most important thing to in-house counsel selecting their outside lawyers. In-house lawyers also want law firms that are willing to take the initiative to build the relationship, according to a National Law Journal report on a recent panel discussion in Boston. The panel at the Legal ...
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• Levi’s Is Paying Orrick a Flat Fee to Handle All But Its IP Work

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 634
  Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is earning a flat fee to handle all of the legal work worldwide for Levi Strauss & Co., with just one exception. Levi’s is paying Orrick an annual fee in monthly increments for all but its brand protection work, the Recorder reports. Townsend and Townsend and Crew is handling ...
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• Attorney Fees: Why Free is Not Always Free

  
  Sam Hasler's Indiana Divorce & Family Law Blog — Authority: 137
  Following up a bit on my post on consultation fees , I want to talk about free.  In the past year there has been made much of making money off of free.  Chris Andersons book Free pushed this idea and made it sexy.  My understanding of the idea may be an oversimplification but is that this is a rehash of the ...
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• Attorney Fees: About My No Free Consult Policy

  
  Sam Hasler's Indiana Divorce & Family Law Blog — Authority: 137
  Lat year I decided that there would no longer be free consults in my office.  Part of this came about because I was without a secretary and I was using the initial telephone call to decide if it was worth having the potential client come into the office. Underlying my policy are several concerns:  1) a free ...
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• Law Departments Cut Costs by Squeezing Law Firms, Freezing Staff Pay

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 634
  Companies are trying to cut their legal budgets, and it’s affecting in-house lawyers whose salaries are frozen and outside law firms asked to reduce rates and offer alternatives to hourly rates. Alternative fees have been touted as the up-and-coming way to reduce outside legal costs. But law departments are trying ...
  1 week ago

• Law Departments Cut Costs by Squeezing Law Firms, Freezing Staff Pay

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 634
  Companies are trying to cut their legal budgets, and it’s affecting in-house lawyers whose salaries are frozen and outside law firms asked to reduce rates and offer alternatives to hourly rates. Alternative fees have been touted as the up-and-coming way to reduce outside legal costs. But law departments are trying ...
  1 week ago

• Struggling South Florida Divorce Lawyers Offer Discounts, Accept Credit Cards

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 634
  Business is off by as much as 35 percent for some South Florida divorce lawyers, spurring discounted rates and creative payment plans. The economy is forcing many lower-income couples to put off divorce, lawyers tell the Miami Herald. Sometimes a couple can’t afford to live independently, or one spouse relies on the ...
  1 week ago

• Struggling South Florida Divorce Lawyers Offer Discounts, Accept Credit Cards

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 634
  Business is off by as much as 35 percent for some South Florida divorce lawyers, spurring discounted rates and creative payment plans. The economy is forcing many lower-income couples to put off divorce, lawyers tell the Miami Herald. Sometimes a couple can’t afford to live independently, or one spouse relies on the ...
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• Law Firm Price Wars Break Out as Some Try ‘Loss Leader’ Bids for Work

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 634
  Price wars have broken out among large law firms. Desperate to bring in new business, some firms are offering “loss leader” bids that may turn out to be unsustainable, according to managers of 15 large law firms responding to a survey summarized at the Legal Business Development blog. Legal business consultant Jim ...
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• Law Firm Price Wars Break Out as Some Try ‘Loss Leader’ Bids for Work

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 634
  Price wars have broken out among large law firms. Desperate to bring in new business, some firms are offering “loss leader” bids that may turn out to be unsustainable, according to managers of 15 large law firms responding to a survey summarized at the Legal Business Development blog. Legal business consultant Jim ...
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• Important Decision on Fee Multiplier Issued by 1st DCA

  
  Florida Insurance Law Blog — Authority: 114
  Today, in Massie v. Progressive Express Insurance Company, ____ So.3d ____ (Fla. 1st DCA November 17, 2009), the Circuit Court sitting in its appellate capacity reversed the trial judges order awarding a multiplier.  The Circuit Court reversed because the insured did not testify that she had difficulty securing ...
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• Hawaiian Telcom bankruptcy costs

  
  Biz Bites| Biz Bites blog, honoluluadvertiser.com | Honolulu, Hawaii — Authority: 121
  Last weeks trial over Hawaiian Telcom Inc.s reorganization plan was an easy victory for the company. But the real winners are the lawyers Through September, Hawaiian Telcom has amassed about $22 million in bankruptcy related fees for attorneys, investment bankers and other consultants. That doesnt include the costs ...
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  Chicago Lawyer — Authority: 127
  
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• Fourth Department Rejects Attorneys Fees Claim for Defending Insurers Appeal -- Not So Mighty Midgets

  
  Coverage Counsel — Authority: 464
  EMPLOYERS LIABILITY – RIGHT TO INDEPENDENT COUNSEL – ATTORNEYS FEES Thomas Johnson, Inc. v. State Ins. Fund (4th Dept., decided 11/13/2009) Since at least 1979, the New York rule regarding the recoverability of attorneys fees in declaratory judgment actions has been that it is only when the insured is ...
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• Fayette County: Attorney Fees

  
  Sam Hasler's Indiana Divorce & Family Law Blog — Authority: 137
  I got to admit I like how Fayette County codifies its procedure on attorney fees.  Yes, this is how most courts go about awarding attorney fees but only some put the procedure where everyone can see and understand what is going on.  (For my experience in Grant County, take a look here .) LR21-FL00-FL-11 FEES ...
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• Alaska Legal Miscellanea: Contingent Fee Agreements, and the FTCA

  
  Alaska Employment Law — Authority: 126
  Federal Tort Claims Act: U. S. District Judge Ralph Beistline has denied the government’s motion for reconsideration in Bolt v. U.S., the slip and fall case at Ft. Wainwright reported here earlier.  The government had argued Beistline was not bound by portions of an earlier 9th Circuit opinion.  Beistline ...
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