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Billing
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Legal Ease Blog
How can I set ‘flat’ or ‘value based’ fees with a litigation practice?
Litigators are the attorneys who seem to be most set against billing on any arrangement other than hourly billing or contingent fees. But alternative, ‘flat’ or ‘value’ billing can be…
Elder Law Prof Blog
Medicare Part D billing errors persist
Legal Ease Blog
How do you use flat fees?
How do you use flat fees, other than basing them on estimated hours? I find it interesting that lawyers seem to have such a hard time wrapping their minds around…
Legal Ease Blog
Using Flat Fees
Carolyn Elefent posted last Friday about flat fees in a post entitled, Make More With Flat Fees. Carolyn's post grows out of an article about a Portland, Oregon law firm…
LawBiz Blog
To ensure satisfaction to the client and payment to the lawyer, a lawyer must budget an engagement before starting …
By Ed Poll
If a tall skyscraper can be built under a fixed fee contract, clients frequently ask why the cost of their “simple” matter can’t be estimated before beginning work. A lawyer…
Business and Commercial
The Ultimate Client Relationship Nightmare
By Patrick Lamb
On August 30, 2006, the Wall Street Journal reported (pg. B1) that Holland & Knight was involved in a billing dispute with a client. The article was reprinted in the…
Business of Law
“Timesheet Terrors”
By Patrick Lamb
I love finding examples of time sheet errors, be they deliberate or not. Intentional deceit makes the more compelling case against use of the billable hour method, but negligent error…
Med Law Blog
Non-Physician Practitioners(NPP) May Bill Medicare For Care Plan Oversight (CPO) Effective 10-02-06
Physician Care Plan Oversight (CPO) is paid under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS), and due to a provision in the Medicare Claims Processing Manual (Publication 100-04, Chapter 12, Section…
Legal Ease Blog
Why Are You Really Losing Clients?
Michelle Golden of Golden Practices has an excellent post about the real cause of lost clients in professional services firms. As her post notes, the 'reasons' law firms think they…
Legal Ease Blog
More Perspectives on Alternative Billing
Last week, Bruce MacEwen of Adam Smith, Esq. posted on alternative billing with his post, "Let's Assume Everyone Here's An Adult." His post discusses the McKinsey method of billing and…