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Billing
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Labor Law Prof Blog
Discriminatory Billing Rates
The Law Marketing Blog (via Legal Skills Prof Blog and ABA Journal) reports:... [T]here is a glass ceiling in the legal profession. It’s invisible, but it highlights the disparity between…
LawBiz Blog
No, It’s Not the Same: Pricing vs. Billing, Part 1
By Ed Poll
Ed advises: keep track of your work, bill timely, and collect effectively.
Business of Law
Do lawyers need to earn a profit on every matter?
By Patrick Lamb
One of the things I learned as a college debater at Northwestern was that if you searched hard enough, you could always find somebody who had said or written something…
3 Geeks and a Law Blog
The Fall of the Legal Cartels?
By Toby Brown
In chatting with my boss / colleague / mentor about the economic state of the legal industry, we stumbled on an interesting analogy. We were discussing the recent CT TyMetrix…
Legal Profession Blog
Two Matters
The South Carolina Supreme Court has imposed a definite suspension of nine months two matters , one involving an instance of personal misconduct and another that involved billing violations.The court described the…
Litigation & Trial
Guard Your Time Like It’s Your Money, Because It Is.
What's the most important tool on a lawyer's desk? There are a variety of alternative fee arrangements — like the contingency fee model our firm uses and the flat-fee model…
Health Industry Washington Watch
Questionable Billing for Medicare Therapy Services
A new OIG report, “Questionable Billing for Medicare Outpatient Therapy Services,” reviews 20 counties with the highest Medicare outpatient therapy payments per beneficiary and overall high outpatient utilization levels in…
Legal Profession Blog
Overbilling Results In 90 Day Suspension
Last Friday, the Illinois Supreme Court adopted a proposed 90 day suspensdion of a former Holland & Knight attorney based on a complaint of false billing practices. In March 2010,…
The Rainmaker Blog
Law Firm Marketing: All the Alternative Billing News That’s Fit to Print
While it’s not unusual to find foreclosure news on the front page of the Sunday New York Times, it is a bit unusual to find a feature there on how…
Med Law Blog
Legal and Practical Issues of Billing and Collection Practices
Contributed by Michael Cassidy & Donna Kell mcassidy@tuckerlaw.com, djk@kellgroup.com An overlooked byproduct of health care reform and the general economic recession is the “multiplier” effect of larger deductibles and co-pays…