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Law Practice

May 27, 2011

Legal Recruiter Wins Fee Dispute

Legal recruiters across the country are quietly celebrating last week's $1.9 million award to a legal recruiter over a fee dispute. But how will the ruling affect the relationship between law firms and recruiters?


By Ben Adlin


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Legal recruiter Alan Miles said he could hardly keep up with the phone calls pouring into his office last week as recruiters from across the nation offered their congratulations.


An arbitrator awarded Miles' recruiting firm, Alan Miles & Associates Inc., $1.9 million in a fee dispute with Bingham McCutchen LLP. Miles indeed played a role in the law firm's 2009 merger with McKee Nelson LLP, th...

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