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Billing
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Legal Ease Blog
How Much Should Lawyers Charge?
I was privy to an interesting conversation yesterday among a number of lawyers in response to one attorney marketing himself as the 'lowest priced.' Not surprisingly, some reacted to the…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Kansas Estate Planning Lawyer Censured
A Kansas attorney, Mr. Larry L. Myers, admitted that he customarily charged one hour for 45 minutes work by his "rounding up" policy. The Kansas Supreme Court determined that, "Billing…
Amazing Firms, Amazing Practices
Has Kirkland & Ellis ever rendered an account for more than 100 million dollars?
By Gerry Riskin
Not that I know of but they did bill $99,807,894.10 according to the post of my friend and Edge International colleague Robert Millard.
Legal Ease Blog
Is it time to change how we charge for legal sevices?
Are your clients paying for time? Expertise? Solutions? Peace of mind? Is the billable hour the best way to charge for your services? Is the amount of time really the…
Business of Law
The Annual Rite Of Passage: Raising Rates
By Patrick Lamb
Check out this post on Law.com. Brenda Sandburg of The American Lawyer reports that amongst the Amlaw 200: - Billing rates will continue to go up. Fifty-three percent of respondents…
Legal Ease Blog
Scheduling Time for Non-billable Tasks
In a recent conversation with a group of lawyers, the question was raised, “Does anyone schedule a specific time to handle administrative tasks?” A chorus of responses came back, along…
Legal Marketing Blog
Is Billable Hour Here to Stay?
By Tom Kane
The results of a survey by Bruce MacEwen at Adam Smith, Esq. leads him to conclude that based on responses by 63% of respondents (there were only 87) "the billable…
Business of Law
Is It Possible To Work That Hard?
By Patrick Lamb
While preparing to lead several roundtable discussions later this week on the topic of the billable hour and alternative fee arrangements, I came across a piece from the Yale Law…
DennisKennedy.Blog
Multiple Takes on the Billable Hour Issue
I decide to leave the billable hours debate to others.
The Trademark Blog
Set Fees: Faster, Cheaper, Better?
The INTA Listserv has a thread going this morning on set fee billing. While I understand the movement toward set fee billing my stock line is that set fee billing…