Last week a lawsuit was filed alleging that law firms overcharge for computerized legal research. You may be asking, “Are we profiting from online legal research?”
The May 7th edition of the National law Journal reports that New York’s Chadbourne & Parke faces litigation regarding allegedly using online contracts to create profits. Firms are reacting [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Cost Recovery’
May 15, 2009
Cost Recovery Practices Called into Question in Lawsuit
December 17, 2008
‘Alternative’ Billing? How About Information Resources ‘Alternatives’
There has been much talk lately about ‘alternative’ client billing structures. How about looking at some alternatives that will help the firm save money?
Cost Recovery
Information costs have typically been passed on to clients in three ways: retail charges, allocation and discount. All of these methods have had some success in the past, [...]
November 21, 2008
Judge Disallows Legal Research Costs = Overhead
A Federal Judge made some interesting observations in a recent case. Class action lawyers submitted their expenses after winning a judgment against Coca-Cola (to read more about the case click here). The Judge would not allow the lawyers to recover $93,960.67 for LexisNexis, Westlaw and online library research. He wrote:
“This Court is of the opinion [...]
