The current mortgage foreclosure crisis, coupled with the country's economic downturn and escalating consumer costs, have combined to place a crippling burden on the nation's bankruptcy system. During difficult economic times such as this, it is imperative that the bankruptcy system operate...

Professor Abrams authors a column, Writing it Right, in Precedent, The Missouri Bar's quarterly magazine. In a variety of contexts, the column stresses the fundamentals of quality legal writing - precision, conciseness, simplicity, and clarity

There are in general three types of fees used by platforms: the fixed membership fee, transaction fee and proportional fee. In real-life, all three fees are used by different platforms. Often, the fee charged by the market maker is a combination of the fixed, transaction and proportional fees....

As consolidated multidistrict litigation (MDL) has come to dominate the federal civil docket, the problem of how to divide attorney fees among participating firms has become the source of frequent and protracted litigation. For example, in the NFL Concussion Litigation, the judge awarded the...

Attorneys in the United States are under increasing pressure to change and adopt practices commonly found in the world of finance and business. Over the past thirty years the bar and legal academics have debated what to do; the focus of this debate has been over changes to MRPC 5.4 to allow...

Attorney fees fund litigation yet little is known about fees in most cases. Fee data are rarely available in the United States or in English rule, loser pays, jurisdictions. This Article analyzes fee awards in Israel, which vests judges with discretion to award fees, with loser pays operating as...