"Mayer Brown took a thrashing last week from a Manhattan judge who
denied the firm’s $126,000 fee request for helping two tenants [ son of a corporate CEO who is a client of the law firm] recover a
$6,400 security deposit and treble damages from their landlord.
Judge Frank Nervo said a junior associate spent “a grossly
unnecessary amount of time” on simple matters, and the firm had
“unabashedly invoiced” oversight work by a senior associate with a
billing rate of $615 an hour and a partner with a rate of $895 an hour." More.
Originally posted Jan 21, 2014 6:15 AM CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss in ABA Journal
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