July 15, 2025
A D.C. federal judge denied an early win for the estate of a 9/11 families attorney suing the firm that contracted him over fees Tuesday, lambasting the contracts at the center of the litigation for their lack of clarity and suggesting that a trial might be the only way to discern their meaning.
March 06, 2023
A Washington, D.C., federal judge has slightly trimmed a Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP partner's claims that law firm Kreindler & Kreindler LLP stiffed him on fees for work tied to recoveries by the victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks and their families, but rejected a bid from the law firm to dodge the suit entirely.
July 09, 2021
A Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP partner contends that a New York-based law firm has stiffed him on fees for outside work tied to recoveries by the victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks and their families, according to a complaint in D.C. federal court.