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Reduce outside counsel fees ? hire female partners

By Rees Morrison

The 2007 ALM Research Survey Report on Billing Rates & Practices summarizes data from 5,058 law-firm respondents. About a third of those respondents were solo practices, 58 percent were from firms of 2 to 39 attorneys (?small firms?) and 10 percent practice in firms of 40 to 170 attorneys (?mid-size firms?). At page 1 of the Executive Summary the report states that ?female attorneys, on average, tend to bill at lower hourly rates than male attorneys, regardless of firm size, years in practice, read more

Full post as published by Law Department Management on January 30, 2008 (boomark / email).