True Story: Big Law Firm Sued Client for $16K in Unpaid Fees (Docket Scanner)

What’s an appropriate threshold for suing a client that refuses to pay its legal bills?

In October, Foley & Lardner sued a client that allegedly failed to pay $16,000 — an amount that seems low for a firm with reported revenues of $682 million in 2015.

In fairness, it is also seeking an additional $13,000 from the client for related expenses, which raises the total amount sought from its former client to about $29,000. [That’s about .004 percent of gross revenue.]

One remarkable thing about the Big Law Docket Scanner, which checks Bloomberg Law’s dockets around the world to see which law firms ...