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Federal procedural changes and market forces are reshaping legal norms, resulting in clients unbundling legal services and reduced attorney authority, according to a new academic paper. Morris Ratner, a professor at the University of California Hastings College of Law, writes in “ Restraining Lawyers: From ‘Cases’ to ‘Tasks,’” that “Recent developments in the domains of [...]

Most lawsuits are complex and involve a great investment of time and resources to see through to completion. One of the most complex scenarios is deciding whether it is possible to file a lawsuit against an entity or individual that files for bankruptcy protection, or whether it is possible to continue to pursue an existing [...]

Widespread financial adviser misconduct costs investors hundreds of millions of dollars per year, new research shows. The first ever large-scale study of misconduct by financials advisers and financial advisory firms finds that bad behavior tends to cluster around repeat offenders at an individual and an organizational level, with many advisers who get fired for misconduct [...]

An increasing number of prevailing patent litigants are seeking—and receiving—attorneys’ fees due to a 2014 Supreme Court ruling that replaced a stricter fee-shifting (“loser pays”) requirement with a more discretionary standard. That same ruling is expected to also produce an uptick in fees awarded to trademark dispute winners. The Business Trial Group handles trademark and [...]