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Ten Things You Need to Know as In-House Counsel® | Twenty Years of Experience in Ten Points™
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There are several things that I rarely, if ever, expect to hear in-house lawyers utter. These include, “Hey, I’m really excited about that new ‘Rocky’ movie!” and “Is $1,500 an hour enough for that Big Law third-year associate?” or, my favorite, “This suit from Sears fits perfectly!” Right up there on the Mount Rushmore of “No One Said Ever” is this, “I really love managing people – it’s the best part of my day!” Okay, that may be stretching things a bit, but, in all seriousness, managing people in an in
I had a different topic in mind for this post and then someone sent me a screenshot from a fee request filing on Pacer (the federal courts’ e-filing system). Here’s just a snippet:
This is not a joke. You are reading this correctly – $775.00 per hour for first-year litigation associate lawyers. $1,205.00 per hour for a third-year! In a world that often feels insane, we’ve reached a new level of rate insanity when it comes to legal fees, especially those demanded by the mega firms. If you are like me, you looked at this chart and then fell out of your chair, unconscious and involuntarily flopping on the floor like a dying fish. Or maybe that’s just me? Unconscious or not, there i
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Ten Things You Need to Know as In-House Counsel® | Twenty Years of Experience in Ten Points™