Meet the Professor Big Law Hires to Collect Nine-Figure Fees

Welcome back to the Big Law Business column on the changing legal marketplace written by me, Roy Strom. Today, we profile a law professor who’s been hired by Boies Schiller Flexner and other big firms to vouch for their most important fee requests. Sign up to receive this column in your Inbox on Thursday mornings.

Starting out as a law professor more than a decade ago, Brian Fitzpatrick turned his empirical research efforts to the federal class action system, where he found surprisingly sparse data had been collected.

He’s still working to answer what might seem like simple questions: ...