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Chicago -- Every year, NALFA, a non-profit group, announces the nation's top attorney fee experts. Attorney fee experts are judicially qualified experts who provide expert testimony and reports on the reasonableness of attorney fees and expenses in underlying cases. Attorney fee experts are increasingly retained by fee-seeking or fee-challenging parties in litigation to independently prove reasonable attorney fees and expenses.Our attorney fee experts also include court adjuncts such as bankru

Legal Professional Liability NewsletterJuly 16, 2018Even well-established doctrines gradually change with the times — this we know. Legal malpractice jurisprudence is no different. One facet of legal malpractice claims that has undergone significant transformation in recent decades is the privity requirement. The principle of privity has traditionally been a staple of legal malpractice claims: it requires the existence of an attorney-client relationship before an action against the attorney may