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Legal employers should encourage their employees to fully unplug from work for a minimum of one week a year to reduce burnout and improve well-being. But how? Under a new proposal, the ABA suggests that law firms should also issue 40 billable hour credits to incentivize lawyers to log off, Karen Sloan reports. The resolution is scheduled to be considered by the ABA’s policymaking policy body when it meets next week. Read more about the proposal and what it could mean.
Two private law firms that helped Texas ink a $1.4 billion biometric privacy settlement with Facebook parent Meta Platforms this week could wind up with more than $300 million in combined legal fees for their work on the case, David Thomas and Mike Scarcella report. The Texas attorney general’s office hired Chicago-founded Keller Postman and Dallas-founded McKool Smith to sue Meta in 2022, agreeing to two paths for their eventual payment. Reuters obtained the contracts through a records request. Get the exclusive details about the contracts.
Legal Fee Tracker is a weekly feature with Reuters following the money paid out to law firms.
