The
October issue of the
Texas Bar Journal is hitting lawyers' desks this week, and it's an issue I am particularly proud of as it deals with an issue should should be of interest to a lot of its readers - attorney's fees. The link above has the online table of contents, as well as a link (reproduced
here) to the digital edition of the publication. The following articles are included on the topic:
- Attorneys' Fees (Getting Paid for What You Do) by Charles E. Hardy
- Preparing an Effective Engagement Letter by Mark D. White
- Attorneys' Fees Problem Areas and How to Avoid Fee Disputes by Randy Johnston and Robert L. Tobey
- When Is A Retainer Truly Non-Refundable? by Cynthia Canfield Hamilton
- One Lawyer's Perspective: A Second Look at Ethics Opinion 610 by Frederick C. Moss
- Is Texas Becoming the Lodestar State?: A Practitioner's Guide to Recovering Attorneys' Fees Under the Lodestar Method by Joseph F. Cleveland, Jr. and Alex Harrell
- Shifting Costs Under the Texas and Federal Rules by Richard J. Plezia
- What In-House Attorneys Wish Outside Counsel Knew About Legal Fees by Katherine A. Compton
The issue also contains two other articles related to the topic. The first,
Legal Fee Arrangements and Billing Practices in the solo/small firm section is excerpted from
Office in a Flash, created by the Texas Young Lawyers Association to provide attorneys with information on various topics relevant to establishing a law practice - see
here for more information. The second,
Retaining A Lawyer: What You Need to Know About Fee Agreements by Chad Baruch is in the Client Page section. The bar journal staff deserves credit for coming up with all these great articles, and getting them into one issue that should be a useful continuing reference for Texas lawyers.
Last but not least, I have to point out that this month's ATJ (Access to Justice) Pro Bono Champion recognized at p. 738 is Marshall solo practitioner Ned Dennis. Congratulations Ned!
