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Date: September 25th, 2024 7:12 PM Author: Lavender marketing idea dopamine q in title (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5601435&forum_id=2Reputation#48131975) |
Date: September 26th, 2024 2:56 PM Author: Exhilarant poppy plaza french chef The Real Rate Report that Wolters Klewer puts out. We've had several courts say that we should get the third quartile for shitigation partners at national firms, so we usually just propose that.
In this last one we proposed the 3Q rate for antitrust litigation, but our kindly judge said that we can't have that much because we don't have the same overhead expenses as Latham and O'Melveny do. A very weird rationale for what the reasonable rate is for performing similar work, even beyond the fact that I'm the singular authority in the country on RPA litigation. Anyway, so we're gonna appeal the shit out of that, and ideally get back up to $1320 or so for antitrust work. |
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Date: September 27th, 2024 10:26 AM Author: Lavender marketing idea dopamine Very interesting for a jurist to encourage bloated biglaw offices/support staff by paying them more than a lean mean boutique machine.
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Date: September 27th, 2024 10:36 AM Author: misunderstood dull property did you have a lot of experience with the RPA at your old firm or is that somethinig you got into after starting your firm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5601435&forum_id=2Reputation#48137072) |
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Date: September 27th, 2024 4:45 PM Author: Exhilarant poppy plaza french chef Our discovery in a different case there showed that the plaintiff in that dispute was charging different prices to different customers. It was completely unrelated to the dispute, but a boomer partner said to me, "did you know that's against the law?" I was like, "bullshit," and he said "you ever hear tell of the RPA?"
After reading a few cases I was like fuck, a guy could make a killing with these cases. So then I spent every commute for the next six months reading every RPA case, and approached a LS classmate with the biz plan, and that's how we got started. |
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Date: September 27th, 2024 4:51 PM Author: misunderstood dull property wow 180
how did you market / get clients
just send the word out to your old partners and have them refer you cases? |
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Date: September 27th, 2024 5:04 PM Author: Exhilarant poppy plaza french chef Actually the company that we had represented in the unrelated case at my old firm was naturally pissed at that mfr plaintiff, so after we started our firm I just called up one of the owners and was like, "let's go after these fuckers for their RPA violation." That case settled for a lot, and then he referred me to other similar businesses. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5601435&forum_id=2Reputation#48138482) |
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Date: September 27th, 2024 6:50 PM Author: misunderstood dull property 180
are you planning to do this with your firm for like the next 20 years? want to work with a 180 associate who is former midtier biglaw and quit after 6 years? |
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Date: September 27th, 2024 7:55 PM Author: Exhilarant poppy plaza french chef I might fully retire before 20 years, but I suppose we'll keep doing them until SCOTUS holds that corporations have a right to do whatever they want.
We've talked off and on about adding people, but have been able to handle what we need so far. |
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Date: September 27th, 2024 8:38 PM Author: misunderstood dull property great I’ll send you my resume we can do the interview in Honolulu (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5601435&forum_id=2Reputation#48139076) |
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Date: September 27th, 2024 8:46 PM Author: Exhilarant poppy plaza french chef That's exactly the kind of go-getter we need around here. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5601435&forum_id=2Reputation#48139090) |
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Date: September 27th, 2024 7:16 PM Author: startling garrison Are these cases common / relatively easy to find ? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5601435&forum_id=2Reputation#48138847) |
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Date: September 27th, 2024 7:56 PM Author: Exhilarant poppy plaza french chef Extremely easy for me. You look at the sell price at Costco, and subtract 13% to learn its acquisition cost. Then you ask your clients what their acquisition cost is. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5601435&forum_id=2Reputation#48138990) |
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Date: September 27th, 2024 8:56 PM Author: up-to-no-good tattoo the fuck, two questions
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so costco price - .13(costco price) = their wholesale acquisition cost for whatever acme widget they're selling
then, you just sashay into other retailers like they're a dick pill bodega and ask them what their wholesale cost is?
then, if they say it's higher you educate them on their legal options?
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is this why costco has their 'made for costco' models that have slightly different sku #'s and tweaked features (e.g. removing an hdmi port off a tv) to provide defensibility?
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Date: September 27th, 2024 10:01 PM Author: Exhilarant poppy plaza french chef 1. Yeah they have a very standard 13-14% markup (whatever rounds to $x.99. But we take it to our harem of existing clients rather than to some randos. The plaintiff has to do a lot of volume to make the damage$ worth it. 2. That's a big reason why. I'd actually like to challenge this in the right case, b/c just switching the branding of a product doesn't remove it from the RPA's scope. The question is only whether the product is of "like grade and quality." So I'd kinda like to sue a supplier that just makes a Kirkland brand that's identical to the name brand, but sells it to Costco for 2/3 the price. |
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Date: September 27th, 2024 10:18 PM Author: Lavender marketing idea dopamine How can you tell that it is the same product with different branding?
beter ban's bentut putter vs. Kirkland & Ellis Crunchy beanut putter seems hard to prove at our federal Twiqbal pleading standards |
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Date: September 27th, 2024 10:24 PM Author: Exhilarant poppy plaza french chef DNA testing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5601435&forum_id=2Reputation#48139324) |
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Date: September 27th, 2024 10:34 PM Author: up-to-no-good tattoo i respect this kind of work
costco must be doing some math that it makes sense to to assume the risk and the anticipated litigation costs vs abide by the law on this one |
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Date: September 27th, 2024 10:37 PM Author: Exhilarant poppy plaza french chef The risk is extremely low, and it's the manufacturer who gets sued anyway. Costco doesn't gaf, except for that they have to sit for a deposition. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5601435&forum_id=2Reputation#48139343) |
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Date: September 27th, 2024 7:22 PM Author: Judgmental beady-eyed forum that's a great origin story (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5601435&forum_id=2Reputation#48138862) |
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Date: September 27th, 2024 7:02 PM Author: fragrant kitchen mad cow disease that's more than a reasonable rate for anti-trust litigation work (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5601435&forum_id=2Reputation#48138811) |
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Date: September 27th, 2024 7:05 PM Author: misunderstood dull property yea and the reason the judge gave his hilarious.
biglaw would be asking for $2000+ for partners who got great results. |
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Date: September 27th, 2024 7:21 PM Author: Judgmental beady-eyed forum that's horseshit rationale, hope you BTFO out of that ruling on appeal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5601435&forum_id=2Reputation#48138859) |