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"Law Firms Resort to Suing Their Clients to Collect Fees"

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In the news: "It's a step that law firms try to avoid taking. But when economic times aren't flush, some law firms are getting aggressive and filing lawsuits against clients to collect fees. "It's not something we do lightly," said Julia B. Morris, managing partner of O'Connell, Flaherty & Attmore. The firm has 29 pending cases seeking about $523,000 in unpaid fees. In the past two years, it has closed at least 11 fee dispute cases seeking about $145,000. Consultants disagree on how firms that sue clients are perceived."

 

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Source: Law.Com's Daily Legal Newswire. 9 April 2010. Copyright 2009.  ALM Properties, Inc. All rights reserved. Subscribe <http://store.law.com/registration/register.asp?subscribeto=nw>.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on April 09, 2010 (boomark / email).

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