Why does anyone hire #biglaw? All they do is LOSE and charge MILLIONS to do it…

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Client just sent me an article with this note: “If the plaintiffs can’t find a way to bankrupt you, Big Law will get the job done. This is absurd.”

The article he forwarded is as follows: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-27/city-council-declines-to-give-more-money-to-law-firm-in-homeless-case

Couple of fun notes from the article:

“The council voted in May to provide Gibson Dunn $900,000 for up to three years of work. Over the following three months, the law firm blew way past that amount, racking up $3.2 million in bills.”

And:

“Obviously, we are not happy, and not ready to pay that bill that we didn’t bargain for,” Councilmember Bob Blumenfield said. “We were supposed to have been notified when they were exceeding that amount. It’s written in the contract that we were supposed to be notified at different levels. We were not notified.”

Now they want $6mm in fees for wat they quoted at $900k.

What can I say? Terrible.

TCPAWORLD AFTERDARK: how is #biglaw melting down? let us count the ways….

But don’t worry, the results #biglaw has delivered recently–at least in TCPAWorld– have been just as terrible.

Loss.

Loss.

Loss.

Loss.

Loss.

Loss.

Loss.

Loss.

Loss.

Then there was this:

BIGLAW FIRM SANCTIONED $1MM BY COURT!!!– And NOBODY Is Covering It But Me

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Published by Eric "Czar" Troutman

The Czar of TCPAWorld Eric Troutman is one of the country’s prominent class action defense lawyers and is nationally recognized in Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) litigation and compliance. He has served as lead defense counsel in more than 70 national TCPA class actions and has litigated nearly a thousand individual TCPA cases in his role as national strategic litigation counsel for major banks and finance companies. He also helps industry participants build TCPA-compliant processes, policies, and systems. Eric has built a national litigation practice based upon deep experience, rigorous analysis and extraordinary responsiveness. Eric and his team feel equally at home litigating multibillion dollar telecommunications class actions in federal court as they do developing and executing national litigation strategies for institutions facing an onslaught of individual TCPA matters. They thrive in each of these roles – delivering consistently excellent results – while never losing sight of the client experience. While many firms now tout TCPA expertise, Eric has been there from the beginning. He built one of the country’s first TCPA-only defense teams and began serving as national TCPA counsel for his clients nearly a decade ago. This perspective allows him to swiftly develop the right litigation strategies for dealing with recurring problems, without wasting time on tactics that are bound to fail. Eric’s rich historical perspective and encyclopedic knowledge of the TCPA landscape also make him an invaluable resource to institutional compliance teams struggling to comply with the shifting regulatory landscape. No task is too small – or too big. Indeed, Eric and his team have helped build TCPA-compliant systems and processes for some of the largest and most complex corporate entities in the country. He commonly works with in-house compliance counsel to build and implement enterprise and business-line specific TCPA solutions, performs TCPA audits and drafts and reviews proposed TCPA policies and procedures. He and his team also have the technical expertise necessary to assist call centers seeking to develop TCPA-resistant call path architecture or to modify existing telephony and software integration to better insulate from potential TCPA exposure. Eric has built a reputation for thought leadership. An avid blogger and speaker, he has been at the forefront of the industry’s effort to push for clarity and a return to sanity for the TCPA for years. He was selected to advocate for the financial services industry on important TCPA issues before the Federal Communications Commission and co-authored the nation’s only comprehensive practice guide on TCPA defense. In his spare time, Eric leads defense teams representing banks and other financial services companies in consumer finance litigation matters. He has experience representing clients in UCC, TILA, RESPA FCRA, CCRA, CLRA, FDCPA, RFDCPA and FCCPA claims, as well as in fraud and bank operations issues.

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  1. The bigger they are, the harder they fail. At least #BigLaw is consistent. But look at all the money they put into the economy!

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  3. Big Law’s position is that the FTC’s National DNC call registry isn’t supposed to be used to identify numbers that were called when on the national DNC list for more than thirty days, and that the FCC’s data isn’t supposed to be able to be used to identify numbers that were wireless when called, but had been ported within fifteen days of receiving a pre-recorded message, and shouldn’t be included in a putative class… Seriously. I’m so exhausted with bizarre mental gymnastics… Yes, the DNC is supposed to be used for the purpose for which it is written into the CFR, as is the FCC’s data. Yes, your law firm gets it. But so many firms don’t.

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