Get those $1 bills ready: Copy fee increase goes into effect tomorrow
An increase in copy fees goes into effect tomorrow at Jackson County Circuit Court. Copies of public records for the general public now cost 50 cents a page, but the new $1 fee starts Friday.
Mo. balks at taxes but OKs higher fees
Missouri lawmakers avoided increasing taxes this year despite an ailing state budget, but they still hope to get more money from animal shelters, some parents and large animal owners.
Madoff liquidator Picard wins $22 million in fees
Irving Picard, the liquidator of the remains of Bernard Madoff’s defunct investment firm, won court approval to collect $22 million in fees for five months of work by him and his law firm. The fees, which cover work by Picard and the law firm Baker & Hostetler from May through September, were approved Thursday by […]
Big firms dumped for lower-priced boutiques
U.S. companies, adopting a model used by DuPont Co., are adding firms with 300 or fewer lawyers to their outside-counsel roster and saving as much as half compared with fees of Wall Street firms more than triple that size. DuPont and other clients, hit by the recession, are pressing firms for fixed fees or 10 […]
Rex Carr renews demand for $6.9M from ex-partners
Illinois attorney Rex Carr (pictured) has brought a five-year-old legal battle with his former law partners to St. Louis, demanding $6.9 million in fees in a petition filed last week in St. Louis Circuit Court. The action is the ninth lawsuit Carr has filed against Korein Tillery over millions in fees he says he is owed from several class actions the firm initiated under its prior incarnation, Car[...]
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