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The recent case of Edelson, P.C. v. Girardi, et al.[i] shows what can happen when a fee-sharing agreement goes bad. Edelson, P.C. claims that it acted as Illinois local co-counsel for California law firm Girardi Keese under...more
BCL 626 governs shareholder derivative actions, or suits brought by individual shareholders on behalf of, and for injury to, the corporation. Subsection (e) provides that if the plaintiff—the individual shareholder asserting...more
Former U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen, the Special Master appointed to investigate alleged improper billing by class plaintiffs’ firms in Arkansas Teacher Retirement System v. State Street Bank and Trust Company,...more
In In re Cokinos, Boisien & Young, a representative of an estate of a deceased attorney sought documents from a law firm related to an alleged agreement to share fees. No. 05-16-01331-CV, 2017 Tex. App. LEXIS 6911 (Tex....more
Naughton v. Pfaff, 2016 IL.App (2nd) 150360 - Brief Summary - A referring attorney sought to recover under an oral fee-sharing agreement with another attorney, alleging that their agreement constituted a joint...more