Law Firm The September issue of The American Lawyer Offers a preview of the Real Rate Report, a study produced by CT - TyMetrix Inc., a company that audits Law Firm bills, and The Corporate Executive Board Co., a company that provides best practices research and analysis. They studied the bills sent to 36 large corporate clients between 2007 and 2009 -- more than 4 billion worth of time sheets submitted by 90,000 people at 3,500 firms. They scrubbed the data to protect the identity of the billers and the billed. Then they got to work crunching the numbers. A lot of interesting statistics jump out. For starters, legal bills increased at rates that exceeded inflation, in-house Lawyers who spent more at a particular law firm were not getting any discounts, and partner status added nearly 100 on average to a lawyer's rate regardless of experience. But what most struck us about the report was its portrayal of an industry fraught with inconsistency. The vast majority of lawyers -- 85 percent -- charge clients different rates for the same work. The location of the biller and the size of the biller's firm -- not the biller's experience -- are the variables that most influence how much a client will pay. And though in-house counsel talk a good game about keeping rates in check, they approve almost three-fourths of all timekeepers' rate hikes.
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By Elizabeth Skrapits Staff Writer Published: September 7, 2010 TUNKHANNOCK Four natural gas companies have leased mineral rights to substantial portions of land throughout Wyoming County, and all four have exploratory gas wells under way. Depending on what those wells produce, the county could be on the brink of a potential natural gas boom. ...
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High court upholds ruling in injury case involving bleachersBangor Daily NewsIn a 4-3 decision, the law court last week rejected the appeal from John W. Searle whose Superior Court complaint claimed that the town and high school had ...
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People on the Move: Sept. 7Bizjournals.com... corporate law and health care law, Suzanne Ashe for corporate law and securities law, S. Allen Baker Jr. for Commercial Litigation and Personal Injury ...and more
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FIRETRACE UAA, LLC v. JESCLARDLeagle.com... another or the happening of a wrong, whether willful or negligent, by which one sustains an injury, however slight, for which the law gives a remedy . ...COOK v. ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONLeagle.comall 3 news articles
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Judicial Follies - Case law hall of fameUkiah Daily JournalTrinidad-Aquino, 259 F.3d 1140, 1146 9th Cir.2001 drunk-driving-resulting-in-bodily-injury is a gentle crime id. at 1147 Kozinski, J., ...and more
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While riding her bike along the Azusa Pacific University 800 Block, East of Foothill Boulevard, Julie Farris was struck by a university trolley. Student Hit by a Trolley Due to Dangerous Road Conditions is a post from: Personal Injury Lawyer Journal
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