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Litigation

Jan. 20, 2007

Approaching Fee Arbitration

FOCUS COLUMN - By John P. Dacey and Kenneth Moscaret - You may think your legal bills are perfect and your deadbeat client should just pay up, but arbitrators may not be so easy to convince. Two specialists in the field give some advice on how to get your point across.

Focus Column

By John P. Dacey and Kenneth Moscaret
     
      Imagine yourself sitting across from your former business client in an attorney-fee arbitration. Your former client has his brand-new litigation counsel seated next to him, in the spot you once occupied. You and your former client can hardly make eye contact across the table. This is not a nonbinding, State Bar proceeding. High stakes are in...

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