Law Practice Management and Technology
The Bottom Line Volume 35, No. 3 June 2014
Content
- Coach's Corner: Billing Conundrums and How to Solve Them
- Creative Lawyer Is Not an Oxymoron or Why Johnny Esq. Can't Innovate
- Message From the Chair: “To Cloud or Not To Cloud, That Is the Question”
- Message From the Editors
- Some Confessions & a Bit of Wisdom from a Fee Arbitrator
- You Want Us to Do What? One Firm's Successful Brand Development Story through Social Media Success
- MCLE Self-Study Article California’s Mandatory Fee Arbitration Act Benefits Attorneys by Providing an Efficient Mechanism to Resolve Legal Fee Disputes
MCLE Self-Study Article California’s Mandatory Fee Arbitration Act Benefits Attorneys by Providing an Efficient Mechanism to Resolve Legal Fee Disputes
By Patrick M. Maloney
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Faced with a client request to submit a legal fee dispute to arbitration under the Mandatory Fee Arbitration Act (“MFAAâ€), California Business Professions Code §§ 6200-6206, many attorneys simply assume the non-binding arbitration process will be a pointless exercise, only delaying the recovery of their hard earned fees. Dismissing the mandatory fee arbitration process as a waste of time overlooks the many benefits of arbitrating fee disputes under the MFAA. The MFAA benefits lawyers and clients alike by providing an expedited and cost-effective means to resolve legal fee disputes.