Expert Legal Fee Witnesses
on High-Stakes Attorney Fee Disputes

It takes more than a good attorney, with a good handbook, to win an attorney fee dispute in any high-stakes attorney fee dispute. Legal fee disputes in high-stakes, or large, or complex, cases have special demands and pressures not found in more routine lawsuits. You need experienced experts with a sophisticated understanding who can produce a detailed and supportable analysis. Read The Expert Failed the Daubert Test – The Consequences, By Leonard Bucklin, Civil Trial Attorney.

At AttorneyFeeAward.com our job is providing you --- the attorney --- with an attorney fee disputes handbook, with forms, to guide you on attorney fee disputes.  Our handbook includes deposition checklists on deposition questions for you --- the attorney -- to ask witnesses (theirs and yours)

We get inquiries from attorneys asking us where they can find an expert witness on  attorney fees to testify. We recommend The National Association of Legal Fee Analysis (NALFA). NALFA as the best association of quality experts on attorney fees and legal billing. We suggest you start there on your quest for an expert on the reasonableness of attorney fees. NALFA will give you recommendations and introductions to qualified fee experts for your high-stakes attorney fee disputes.  The National Association of Legal Fee Analysis (NALFA) 27 N Wacker Drive, Suite 196 - Chicago, Illinois 60606.  Phone: 312-532-2818. Usually they can arrange a no-charge 30-minute discussion with one of their fee experts. 

Your expert may need a legal fees auditor to do back office computer analysis work, to look at each hour charged on a time entry, and then determine that time entry's work's relationship to the lawsuit.  Accountability Services, Inc., a legal bills auditing specialist, is an auditing firm specializing in legal bills and costs.  We have no financial interest in Accountability Services., Inc., but we do always recommend them for detailed auditing of time records and resulting fee bills, to determine reasonableness of the billed legal fees. Why? Because there is a lot of detailed "number-crunching" work underneath a proper expert opinion, and Accountability Services has the proprietary software and a lawyer with expertise to properly audit legal bills and time records. 

Founded in 1991, Accountability Services has grown into serving businesses of all sizes, including Fortune 500 Companies, international organizations and governmental institutions. The principal of Accountability Services is Judith A. Bronsther, Esq., who has written on the subject of legal cost control, and who lectures on the subject. For more information contact Accountability Services, Inc., 853 Broadway, Suite 1607 New York, NY 10107.  We suggest a direct telephone call to Judith A. Bronsther, Esq. at 212.245.0245.

 

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