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Billing follies — what not to do

By Karen Rubin on August 27, 2015
Posted in Fees, How Not to Practice, Law Practice Management

BillingThis week’s not-to-be-missed article on lawyer folly is a jaw dropping round-up of bad billing conduct, as reported in the American Lawyer.

It’s well-known that every jurisdiction’s version of Model Rule 1.5 prohibits charging an unreasonable fee or an unreasonable amount for expenses.  So what could lawyers have been thinking when they did things…

No insurance coverage for attorneys’ fees that were ordered as a “sanction”

By Karen Rubin on December 11, 2014
Posted in Fees, Insurance

Money and gavelIf you or your firm were ordered to pay a party’s legal fees as a “sanction” for professional misconduct, would your professional liability insurance cover that payment?

In a recent case, the district court for the Northern District of Illinois left a law firm high and dry, holding that the policy exclusion for sanctions meant…

Legal malpractice is compulsory counterclaim in fee suit, Ohio court of appeals says

By Karen Rubin on July 23, 2014
Posted in Fees, Malpractice

When a lawyer sues a client for unpaid fees, the client must assert any possible claim for legal malpractice as a compulsory counterclaim, the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals has held.   In other words:  use it or lose it.  The court upheld summary judgment in favor of a lawyer whose client failed to assert…

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