Kansas City’s Stinson Morrison Hecker let 30 people go on Monday. No attorneys were affected. “We were going to do this over a period of time, but we decided that with the economy the way it is, there was no reason to prolong it,” said managing partner Mark Foster. Foster said those laid off included secretaries, record clerks [...]
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A prominent law firm paid $38.1 million to collect overdue Chicago parking tickets and other debt is still rolling in city business, one year after it was supposed to be fired for bankrolling an Arizona trip for a high-ranking Revenue Department official. Last February, the collection-services law firm of Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson was accused [...]
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Via LawCrossing.com: At year’s end, white-shoe law firms race to collect the bulk of the year’s client fees by the end of December. This year is different though, with a number of law firm managing partners worried that the current recession will make the job of collection even tougher. Most law firms bill every three months, or even [...]
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