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Billing
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Legal Profession Blog
Document Review Overbilling Draws Proposed Suspension
A two-year suspension with the second year stayed on conditions has been proposed by the Ohio Board on Professional Responsibility for billing misconduct.The attorney worked as an independent contractor for…
The Right Coast
Billable hour pricing is effectively dead because of budget caps, report says
One of the most potentially significant, though rarely acknowledged, changes of the past decade has been the effective death of the traditional billable hour pricing model in most law firms,…
Beneficially Yours
A Liar And A Cheat? 3 Ways To Pay…
By Kathleen Cahill Slaught and Shireen Yvette Wetmore Seyfarth Synopsis: Insurer gets to pick its remedy when hospital engages in dishonest billing and illegal kickbacks…to the tune of $41 million.…
3 Geeks and a Law Blog
Comp on the Client Side: Living in a Glass House
By Toby Brown
The billable hour has been trashed repeatedly over how it motivates bad behavior in law firms. The reasoning goes that rewarding hours billed motivates lawyers (associates and partners) to spend…
Legal Profession Blog
Investigative Reporting Leads To Bar Charges
A State Bar investigation that was triggered by a July 2012 article in the Phoenix New Times by Paul Rubin led to ethics charges against two attorneys who represent death…
CommLaw Monitor
Comcast Reaches Record $2.3 Million Settlement with FCC Over “Negative Option Billing”
By Kelley Drye
Yesterday, the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau reached a $2.3 million settlement with Comcast Corporation (Comcast) to resolve an investigation into whether Comcast wrongfully charged cable TV customers for services and equipment…
Legal Profession Blog
Contract Attorney Charged With Overbilling
The web page of the Ohio Supreme Court lists four disciplinary cases that are scheduled for hearing in the near future.One of the cases involves an allegation that an independent…
The Rainmaker Blog
Law Firm Business Strategies: 4 Keys to Breaking the 7-Figure Barrier (Part 4 of 4)
Here is the 4th key to breaking the 7-figure barrier for your law firm: Key #4: Pay attention to your firm’s finances. A 2014 LexisNexis survey of 309 U.S.- based…
Legal Profession Blog
Limited Louisiana License Granted To Disbarred Lawyer
With its trademark terseness, the Louisiana Supreme Court has granted an in-house license to an unnamed applicant.Justice Knoll gave the as much of the story as we are likely to…
New York Attorney Malpractice Blog
A Different Approach to Legal Malpractice and Overbilling
It's the first time we have seen this approach. Plaintiff sues for a declaratory judgment that Defendant attorneys overbilled their client, as well as on claims of legal malpractice. In Berardi…