USDC for the District of Columbia awards over $1 million in fees to the successful plaintiffs in the Heller case about the Second Amendment. Blog coverage at Blog of the Legal Times. [edited]
Herald Tribune (Sarasota, FL): FDIC sues law firm for alleged malpractice (where the client was a bank).
JD Journal: E-discovery provider acquired for $70 million. (There's a lot of money in e-discovery.)
Wisconsin Lawyer: State Bar president wants to restore confidence in the state's judiciary. They've been pretty dysfunctional up there and I wish them well as they seek to restore some normalacy.
Miami Herald: Holland & Knight practice group eliminates hourly billing.
Goodwin v. O'Donnell (New Jersey, via Leagle): Law firm wins legal malpractice case based upon allegation that arbitration turned out to be more expensive and slower than was advised. Said the court, "Here, there was no legal duty on the part of defendant to refrain from recommending arbitration inasmuch as our State's strong public policy favors this alternative means of dispute resolution, EPIX Holdings Corp. v. Marsh & McLennan Companies, 410 N.J.Super. 453, 471 (App. Div. 2009), particularly in matrimonial matters, Faherty v. Faherty, 97 N.J. 99, 105-06 (1984). A fortiori, no reasonable jury could find the requisite breach of duty in defendant's recommendation of arbitration as a speedy and inexpensive course of action to pursue."
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