Topic
Billable Hours
184 published works
Amazing Firms, Amazing Practices
Is the billable hour turning off talented young lawyers?
By Gerry Riskin
In an article published in the Globe and Mail earlier this month, Allison Speigel, a commercial litigator with Speigel Nichols Fox LLP, argues convincingly that the billable hour may be at the…
The Contingency
By the Hour
Still dominant The billable hour bestrides the world of high-stakes litigation like a Colossus. Whatever its prospects,¹ today it continues to set the baseline for expectations about attorneys' fees. Big firms charge by…
The Rainmaker Blog
One BigLaw Firm Abandons the Billable Hour
BigLaw labor and employment firm Jackson Lewis says that it is eliminating the billable hour in 2015 for its associates, who will now be measured on client service, responsiveness, and…
The Legal Watercooler
You had me at “the billable hour is directly opposed to the best interest of the client …”
Mark this day down on your calendars, kids. We will one day look back on November 18, 2014, as the first day in the long anticipated end to the dreaded…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Theorizing Billable Hours
By Tracy Thomas
Theresa Beiner (Arkansas-Little Rock) has published Theorizing Billable Hours, 75 Mont. L. Rev. 67 (2014).This article looks at the ethical and diversity implications of high billable hour requirements. While corporate counsel…
Business of Law
Why Law Firms Must Look at Changing up Their Current Pricing Model
The death of the billable hour is near. Or, if most buys of legal services had their way, that's how it'd be. As such, law firms must look at switching…
In Search of Great Customer Experiences
Kaye Scholer’s clients need to check their bills
By Patrick Lamb
Another law firm has motivated its associates to spend more time rather than less getting their work done. Kaye Scholer is paying upwards of $20,000 in additional bonuses to those who exceed…
The Legal Watercooler
The Billable Hour: Being Paid to be Inefficient?
Seriously. Can the one person who likes the billable hour please raise your hand?? I'd like to know what about it you like? Is it the math? Junior partner Susan…
3 Geeks and a Law Blog
Dan and Jane: Ep: 3 – The Billable Hour
By Ryan McClead
Image [cc] - TomozaurusJane: The billable hour is dead, Dan. It is the sad and lonely remnant of an era when clients were to stupid to realize they were being…
Amazing Firms, Amazing Practices
Managing Client Perceptions of the Billable Hour
By Gerry Riskin
A recent op-ed piece in The New York Times by Northwestern University Adjunct Professor Steven J. Harper explores the challenges and drawbacks – both to law firms and their clients…