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Billing
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Legal Skills Prof Blog
Average law firm billing rates show modest annual growth
From the National Law Journal:The 2011 Law Firm Billing Survey.It appears that modest annual billing rate increases are here to stay. For the third year in a row, law firms…
Family Law Prof Blog
Padding Divorce Bills
By Family Law
From the Telegraph:Baroness Shackleton, Britain's highest-profile divorce lawyer, has increased the bills of celebrity clients beyond the time she recorded having spent on their cases...Madonna and Sir Paul McCartney appear…
Business and Commercial
Increasing rates, decreasing realization? Are you getting the point?
By Patrick Lamb
Thomsom Reuters' report on the latest Hildebrandt Peer Monitor Index contains several interesting findings. Here is the one I thought was the most interesting: Billing rates were also up --…
3 Geeks and a Law Blog
When Raising Rates
By Toby Brown
Having been in the legal business for 25+ years, I have long marveled at the machinations of lawyers over their billing rates. I recall being a bit shocked back in…
Legal Profession Blog
Try Try Again
The District of Columbia Bar Counsel and an attorney (represented by counsel) have submitted a proposed consent disposition in a case involving allegations of billing fraud. The proposed sanction is…
Health Industry Washington Watch
OIG Reviews Questionable Billing for Lower Limb Prostheses
A recent OIG report, "Questionable Billing by Suppliers of Lower Limb Prostheses," asserts that Medicare inappropriately paid $43 million in 2009 for lower limb prostheses that did not meet local…
Business of Law
Cravath and predictable fees
By Patrick Lamb
It was only back in 2009 when Cravath Managing Partner Evan Chesler stunned the legal world with his Forbes article, Kill the Billable Hour. Chesler spoke about the importance to…
Larry Bodine Law Marketing Blog
CRM System used for Law Firm Marketing Creates Pop-Up of Amount Clients Owe
By Larry Bodine
According to a great story in Law Technology News, Ulmer & Berne used their CRM (client relationship management) system to spur their lawyers to collect $2 million more than they…
Business of Law
Is estimating hourly fees an appropriate way of setting a fixed fee?
By Patrick Lamb
Rees Morrison, who blogs at Law Department Management, just wrote a really interesting post, Sorry, it’s perfectly fine if a firm sets a fee based on estimated hours of work. …
Legal Profession Blog
Double Billing Draws Probation
April appears to be a month for billing misconduct discipline in Colorado. The web page of the Presiding Disciplinary Judge reports a stayed suspension with probation for two years as…