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Hourly billing starting to disappear

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

The billable hour bites the dust in another area of the country: Birmingham: The billable hour system, which charges clients by the hour for legal services, has been a standard billing method for decades, but has its share of critics that claim it results in exorbitant legal costs and the dragging out of legal procedures. That has resulted in some firms, such as Columbus, Ohio's Waite Schneider Bayless & Chesley Co. LPA, eliminating the billable hours method altogether. And with several large clients pushing their representative firms toward alternative billing arrangements, even more firms could begin offering new arrangements and eliminating billable hours.

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on May 15, 2008 (boomark / email).