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Pro bono as profit center III: Skadden and Chinatown restaurant case

By Walter Olson, Ted Frank, and David Nieporent

Another instance of the decidedly Pickwickian sense in which some in the legal profession use the term pro bono: Last year, a federal judge awarded nearly $1 million in attorney fees, costs and prejudgment interest to Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in a case involving workers at a restaurant in New York's Chinatown. Chan v. Triple 8 Palace, No. 1:03-cv-06048 (S.D.N.Y.). The New York firm took the case pro bono in an attempt to collect unpaid tips on behalf of the workers. The firm succeed read more

Full post as published by Overlawyered on February 18, 2008 (boomark / email).