Private practice lawyers were more than five times as likely as their in-house counterparts to choose hourly billing, while in-house counsel were more than twice as likely to choose value-based or outcome-driven pricing.
"We're striking along with all these other shops and together trying to improve the landscape for legal representation in New York City," Ryan Acquaotta, a campaign coordinator and shop steward at Urban Justice Center, said. "When everybody's doing it together, it's a lot harder to break the strike."
Larkin concluded nine years as city attorney, stating, "This has been for sure the most rewarding nine years of my career: being a part of a really fantastic community with co-workers who really care deeply about their work."
Support for the law firms that didn't make deals has been growing among corporate executives, with at least 11 big companies choosing to shift their work accordingly.
"Brooklyn will not tolerate scammers coming to our borough to prey on vulnerable Black and brown homeowners and steal their homes from right under their nose," said Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso.
