“What a jerk!! He MUST be studying law!”
14 January 2015 – Yep, it seems it is the first question college students as each other:“What’s your major?” Perhaps the most superfluous. Spend a little time getting to know
Continue readingLaw schools race to meet students’ demands: the business that is called “the law”
30 November 2015 – For some years now pundits have been writing about the “deprofessionalization of the legal profession”, a malaise which, it is claimed, has infected the profession
Continue readingU.S. labor laws and overtime: your comments
2 September 2015 – Over the weekend we published a notice about the Department of Labor’s proposed a new rule regarding overtime and the opportunity to make comments. We noted that United Contract
Continue readingThe Department of Labor has proposed a new rule regarding overtime and seeks comment
29 August 2015 – The Department of Labor (DOL) has proposed a new rule regarding the overtime exemptions in the Fair Labor Standards Act (click here to view the proposed rule). United Contract Attorneys is
Continue readingContract attorney lawsuit against Skadden Arps can proceed, appeals court says; case could enable temporary lawyers hired for routine document review to earn extra wages
23 July 2015 – A lawsuit demanding overtime pay from legal heavyweight Skadden, Arps can proceed, an appeals court ruled today, potentially clearing the way for temporary lawyers hired to do routine
Continue readingThis firm marked up contract attorney reviewer billings over 500 percent … and that’s not the worst part
From Doug Austin at eDiscovery Daily: June 3, 2015 – Remember when we asked the question whether a blended document review rate of $466 per hour is excessive? Many of you weighed in on that one
Continue readingSkadden fights contract lawyer’s claims in the U.S. Second Circuit
1 June 2015 – Last week the U.S. Second Circuit heard the Lola vs. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom case which is testing whether some purportedly professional work might in fact be eligible
Continue readingU.S. student debt hangover ruins that “American dream” (ha, ha)
Angela Gambetta, Managing Director/The Posse List 9 May 2015 – About a decade ago, American consumers seemed the most debt-addicted people on the planet. Then … bingo … around 2008 something
Continue readingIn Canada: Deloitte sued in document reviewer class action; treating hundreds of document reviewers as contractors when they were, in reality, employees
13 March 2015 – Deloitte and a document review company it acquired a year ago are alleged to have saved millions of dollars by treating hundreds of document reviewers as contractors when
Continue readingKessler’s 600% markup on contract attorneys ruled too high. Gee, ya think?
7 January 2015 – A New York federal judge slashed Kessler Topaz’s fee request in an investor class action against Weatherford International Ltd from $14 million to $10.8
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