This article proposes language to include in retainer agreements to enable the monetization of non-monetary victories and compensate attorneys for all their work on behalf of their contingency clients ...

BOSTON (Legal Newsline) – Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced a $100,000 joint disposition agreement on Friday with a lobbying firm that allegedly profited from an inappropriate ...

Cravath, Swaine & Moore attorneys are entitled to a nearly $75 million shifted contingency fee, Vice Chancellor Sam Glasscock III decided Thursday. Glasscock found Cravath is entitled to 15% of the ...

(Reuters) - Who says contingency fees are only for plaintiffs' firms? Glasscock said Cravath’s $47 million lodestar was not unreasonable, given that Williams’ evidentiary burden was much heavier than ...

Compensation. Thus far, the courts have appeared to be unsympathetic to legal claims by contingent faculty members over compensation, which are often brought as claims of discrimination, breaches of ...

Two law firms cannot enforce a contingency fee agreement under which the client assigned them a 40 percent ownership interest in her company if they could untangle it from her estranged husband’s ...