Judge Slashes Lawyer's Rate for Typos, Careless Writing
From: Dean Huffman (dean@thehuffpeople.net)
Sat Feb 28 13:52:59 2004
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Judge Slashes Lawyer's Rate for Typos, Careless Writing
The Legal Intelligencer
Finding that Brian Puricelli's courtroom work was "artful" in securing a
$430,000 verdict in a civil rights suit, but that his written work was
laden with typographical errors, a Pennsylvania federal magistrate judge
has ruled that his court-awarded fees should be paid at two rates -- $300
per hour for the courtroom work, but $150 per hour for the pleadings. Judge
Jacob P. Hart seemed almost amused as he described some of the writing as
"nearly unintelligible."
See: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1076428397626
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