City says anti-nepotism law doesn't apply to hiring independent contractors such as law firm of Hank Coxe, father-in-law of ...

In affirming a jury verdict against the law firm, the Court of Appeals specifically noted that the firm “never sent a written engagement letter setting out exactly whom the firm represented.” ...

Should law firms be required to ... arbitration clause is permissible in an engagement letter between a lawyer and a client. The Sanfords had hired the firm of Bracewell & Giuliani to recover ...

Lawler represented the firm in business law matters and charged his standard hourly rate of $325, he said. “We didn’t need a new engagement letter because it was the same client,” he said.

Attorneys are (or should be) all too familiar with the execution of engagement letters ... want to be sure that a closing letter sets out the lawyer's (or law firm's) document and file retention ...

Unfortunately, small firms and sole practitioners are the least likely to regularly use engagement letters. While firms may be reluctant to send multiple-page engagement letters to clients (the sample ...

Question: Our firm currently represents two sophisticated commercial parties: client A on certain specialized tax credit matters and client B in environmental work concerning one of its ...