-in-place are reduced. We find that changes in SG&A costs separate between the two cost drivers, and that the explanatory power of … of the single-driver cost behavior model. Similar insights are obtained when we replace SG&A costs with employee … headcount or employee costs as the cost measure of interest. In all cases, we find that the cost inertia term is significantly …

money in the costs of those suits. Class counsel may directly profit on time investments in two ways: by billing lawyers at … situations may also recover their costs but courts may not — or at least do not — permit the attorneys either to mark up their … costs or to receive cost multipliers. As cost profits are rarely even debated, there is no good defense of why they are …