We have seen intellectual property transition from a legal cost center to a financial commodity.
Previously, the legal cost to the plaintiff was in proportion to the amount claimed, making most suits prohibitively expensive.
She said a major factor in her decision to quit as Alaska's governor was the mounting legal cost she and the state faced in fighting nearly 20 ethics charges.
Providing poor defendants with proper legal representation would cost money, but it is affordable.
He told the BBC the legal fees had cost an "absolute fortune" and called for reform to make it possible for the less wealthy to protect their privacy.
The bill makes wide-ranging changes to legal aid, the cost of litigation, and sentencing guidelines.
However, you can deduct the cost of legal services related to producing or collecting taxable income.
Correspondents say that if successful the legal action could have cost the British taxpayer millions of dollars in compensation.
The task force is also the only federal health agency to have the explicit legal authority to consider cost as one criterion in recommending whether patients should use a medical test or treatment.
Some argue that those who use derivatives should face the economic cost whatever their legal status.
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Aged only 36, the media-savvy Mr Ziobro has cut both crime and the cost of seeking legal advice.
Deputy Jonathan Le Tocq said the cost of defending legal action from AFR Advocates would also be kept secret.
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Initially meant to be amicable and done without lawyers, the divorce turned ugly and cost millions in legal fees.
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That raises the cost and the legal threshold to sue an airline.
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The cost of a legal defence could be passed on to dealers and consumers and, if too many cities file similar suits, the industry could shut down altogether.
Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill has stated that it is "right and proper that those who can afford to pay towards the cost of their legal defence costs do so".
The severance agreement should also charge any costs the employee incurs as a result of cooperating, such as travel, legal expenses, and the cost of his or her time, to the employer.
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Frank also cites an American Bar Association ethics ruling suggesting law firms should only bill clients their actual cost plus a reasonable allocation of overhead, including the cost of outsourced legal work.
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If the quality is higher, the whistleblower incentives will also increase the quantity of internal corporate investigations, imposing a real cost burden (legal, IT, etc.) for most companies that lack Fortune 50 resources.
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Here was a man who had refused, as if on principle, to swing at a bad pitch, and then applied that same steely resolve to his legal situation, at some cost to his dignity.
By law, CMS is prohibited from doing cost-effectiveness analysis, but as The Legal Pulse has previously noted, the ethic of factoring cost into coverage decisions permeates the agency to the point where its employees have conducted their own, independent research on the cost of certain drugs.
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The lawsuit, which is still ongoing, has cost Google millions in legal bills and pushed it to adopt its own proactive copyright protections.
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The governor directed the legislature to set aside funds to cover the cost of the expected legal battle, which opponents vowed to mount if the governor signed the measure into law.
They developed country-level data by examining how much property insurance companies bought in each country and then used that to estimate their level of legal exposure, backing out the cost of liability insurance cost from that.
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Mr. McCourt and his lawyers, led by Chicago litigatorFred Bartlit, are likely to argue that the alleged mistake triggered legal fees, drove up the cost of the divorce payment to Ms. McCourt, and, at the end of the day, caused the Dodgers to file for bankruptcy protection, which resulted in a forced sale of the team.
It has asked solicitors Leigh Day to prepare a legal case for compensation, at no cost to members.
Outsourcing will affect American legal firms the most, because they cost the most.
The Prison Service has agreed to drop legal action against the union over the cost of unofficial strike action by officers last year.
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