October 23rd, 2019

Session: 12:00 - 1:00 pm

Location:
Offit Kurman's New York Office
10 East 40th Street
New York, NY 10016

Satellite Locations:
Offit Kurman's Philadelphia Office
1801 Market Street
Suite 2300
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Offit Kurman's Charlotte Office
301 South College Street
Suite 2600
Charlotte, NC 28202

Offit Kurman's Tysons Corner Office
8000 Towers Crescent Dr #1500
Vienna, VA 22182

In its lengthy opinion on the 2013 case of Clemens et al v. New York Central Mutual Fire Insurance Company, the Court was outraged by the ethical breach and the “outrageously excessive” fees stemming from a failure to maintain contemporaneous time records and instead relying on one attorney to “’reconstruct’ records for every attorney, paralegal, or IT staff member billing time on this matter over an approximately six-year period.”  This decision was appealed and then affirmed in September 2018.  In this CLE, we will consider Clemens, define the terms “latency” and “velocity” as they relate to ethical timekeeping, and offer practical solutions to meet the ethical standards framed by RPC Rules 1.4 and 1.5 and these decisions.

*Approved for 1.0 Ethics CLE in DE, NY, PA, VA (pending approval in NC)

Presented by John Raftery and Tony Gerdes