LTPC has been entering into alternative fee arrangements (AFAs) with clients for more than 15 years.  These arrangements are designed to accommodate clients who are interested in a fee structure other than standard hourly billing.

We survey cases from Texas, the Fifth Circuit, Delaware, and California that have analyzed common problems with earnout agreements.  We also address a couple of the most recent cases that have been noted by both courts and commentators.

The passage of financial reform has not escaped notice; its sweeping whistleblower provisions, however, have. On July 21, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Dodd- Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Despite receiving significant media attention, the Act's new incentives for whistleblowers have gone much less noticed.

Popular culture and the front page of the local paper give us all good reason to believe that the runaway jury is alive, well and waiting just around the corner, but is it true?

Direct sellers face unique risks and challenges on the Internet because their business model depends on two key components: maintaining their good name and a robust independent sales force.  It is a jungle out there.  This white paper explains your legal rights and how to tame the Internet jungle.

The purpose of this white paper is to describe the existing domestic wind farm development landscape and outline issues to consider before and during wind-energy projects.  As a second component, this paper addresses ways to work proactively with communities to avoid conflict, as well as outline legal defense strategies should nuisance lawsuits arise.

While opening statement and voir dire teach a jury the themes of a case, it is left to cross examination to teach the jury how to reason. That is why cross examination plays such a critical role in winning and losing a case and why it is probably the most difficult and usually the final skill to be mastered by a good trial lawyer. This presentation is my attempt to distill what I have learned about how to "prepare” for cross examination.