Not Billable: Frightening Fights & Fees
Welcome back to another edition of Not Billable (powered by Lawtrades ). As always, it's time to put the timesheet down and enjoy some news and insight.
A Frightening Lawsuit
Halloween is a bit early this year. Well, at least for the lawyers. In late September, Halloween Town, Inc., “the premier purveyor of a vast array of Halloween and horror-related merchandise, costumes, decorations, clothing, novelties and special effects accessories,” put on their legal costume and took their dispute to court.
Fee Fight
Another outside counsel fee fight made the news (no we are not talking about Watchell).
What’s Upjohn? NM HBU?
What's Upjohn? No, it’s not the set-up to a dumb joke (though I have de finitely made it one at least a few times). An “Upjohn warning,” also known as a "corporate Miranda warning,"??is the notice owed by in-house or outside counsel to company employees. It stems from the 1981 Supreme Court case?Upjohn Co. v. United States, which?established that counsel must explicitly alert company employees that the counsel solely represents the company — not the individual employees.
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