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One Essex Ct vs Herbies: back from the brink

Sharing the pain is one thing. Simply not being paid (at all), despite being entitled to be (in full), is another. While one expects some sense of commercial reality from those at the commercial bar - including reducing fees (perhaps materially) where necessary - the truth is that getting money on account from the client and managing billing, payment, etc of invoices by the client, has to fall primarily to the law firm. I rather doubt HS would have responded kindly had the silk in question demanded money on account because he didn't trust HS to pay up (or to obtain money from their client and then pay up). As it turns out, of course, he should have done...

3-Mar-2010

6:35 pm