It all began with a corporate bankruptcy case. Retained by energy entrepreneur Adam H. Victor in April 2010 to prepare the Chapter 11 filing for one of his companies, DLA Piper ran up a hefty bill.
And when Victor refused to pay it, the law firm sued him for $675,000. Victor defended aggressively, not only filing a counterclaim over what he alleged was a “sweeping practice of overbilling" on the megafirm's part but discovering some 250,000 pages of documents, according to the DealBook page...
After a lawsuit of involving the billing practices of DLA Piper, the law firm on Tuesday issued a memo to its lawyers, calling language in e-mails written by its lawyers “unprofessional.”
The law firm is involved in a fee dispute with Adam H. Victor, an energy industry executive, who has accused the law firm of performing superfluous tasks and overstaffing assignments.
Mr. Victor’s suit cited several e-mail messages from lawyers at the firm. One e-mail involved a lawyer describing how a colleague...
