Topic
Billing
411 published works
Employment & Labor
Are BigLaw’s Increased Rates Good for Specialized Solos?
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Legal Profession Blog
Honesty In Billing
An attorney in South Carolina was indicted on 30 counts of mail fraud. He had charged fees "at the direction of an officer of an insurance company for which [he]…
Business and Commercial
Influential Business Leader Speaks. Please Listen.
By Patrick Lamb
"Put most bluntly, the most fundamental misalignment of interests is between clients who are driven to manage expenses, and law firms which are compensated by the hour."So says Cisco General…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Not Out of the Woods
By Ellen Podgor
Newsday provides an update on what's happening at UMDNJ in an article titled "Federal Monitor's Report Finds Billing Problems at UMDNJ." This was a case where the company had signed…
Legal Ease Blog
Value Billing – what is it, and how is it done?
I'm honored to have been asked to do a series of guest posts on Grant Griffiths' Home Office Lawyer blog on value billing. The first post, which can be found…
Legal Marketing Blog
More Bad News on Padding Bills
By Tom Kane
Last week I had a post entitled “More Bad News for the Billable Hour,” where I cited a survey by Inside Counsel that reported the percentages of in-house counsel and…
Legal Profession Blog
More Illinois Bar Discipline Cases
My recent review of new hearing board reports from Illinois led to a number of interesting matters that shed some light on problems in both practice and private affairs that…
Legal Profession Blog
More Illinois Bar Discipline Cases
My recent review of new hearing panel reports from Illinois led to a number of interesting matters that shed some light on problems in both practice and private affairs that…
Business of Law
Hourly Billing Abuses On The Rise?
By Patrick Lamb
The Wall Street Journal Law Blog contains a story that "Study Suggests Significant Billing Abuse." In this post, Nathan Koppel refers to a study by Cumberland School of Law Professor…
Legal Ease Blog
How to Get Clients Beyond “Sticker Shock?”
Christopher Marston at Inside the Firm of the Future has two recent thought-provoking posts on the practicalities of using value based billing in a law practice: Sticker Shock: Dealing with…