Lawyers need to be mindful of ethics issues when crafting different billing structures, explain the authors of a new book on minimizing legal malpractice risks. Clients and attorneys increasingly have ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Under the Equal Access to Justice Act, a court in a civil action against the United States shall award to a prevailing party other than the United States fees and other expenses . . . incurred by that ...

Legal industry experts expect a greater shift from hourly billing to alternative fee arrangements, given the increased use of AI in legal practice. Some believe that transactional practices may be ...

A common question from clients, when a dispute arises on a construction project, is whether they can recover their attorney’s fees from the other side if they pursue a case and win. More often than ...

When the financial burden associated with a personal injury is overwhelming, knowing how to negotiate attorney fees makes a big difference. Attorney fees are one of the largest components of the ...

On Aug. 6, the Colorado Court of Appeals recently addressed a question that had never been definitively answered in the state: whether a prevailing party can recover attorney fees incurred to enforce ...