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.
Then there was this:
BIGLAW FIRM SANCTIONED $1MM BY COURT!!!– And NOBODY Is Covering It But Me