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Boo to billable hours: a lawyer's guide to better billing (Online)
Author:
Derrick, John ;
Year:
2008
Format:
Online
Call No:
Online
Subject:
Billing ; Practice & Procedure ;
Keywords:
Billable hour basics
How we got to where we are today

PART TWO: WHAT?S WRONG?
Built-in obfuscation
The anomaly of the six-minute minimum
The highly questionable 12-minute rule
The problem of accuracy
The price-value disconnect
The incentive to overlawyer
Billing for thinking
Double billing
The quandary of travel time
The chilling effect
Billing that puts a law license in peril
How common is bill padding?
The problems of excessive billing targets

PART THREE: REBELLION & INERTIA
The backlash
Why good lawyers don?t change a bad system
The rules about fees
A dozen better ways to bill by the hour
Alternative billing overview
Result-oriented fees
Flat fees
Budget-based billing
Reinventing value-based billing
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