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All-Time Worst Lawyer Billing Practices

By The Greatest American Lawyer

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How Much? As you all know, I?m not much of a fan of hourly billing.  Sometimes, we do it in litigation as part of a blended arrangement where we share risk with the client.  This can either be a flat fee cap or a contingency fee component to hourly work.  But a story I heard from a client the other day got me thinking.   What are the worst billing practices used by lawyers?  Here?s my list:
  • Calling a client who doesn?t have a live project to find out how they or their company are doing and then sending a bill to the client for the time spent on the phone.
  • Offering to pay for a lunch with the client and then sticking that as a ?cost? item on the bill.
  • Billing time that doesn?t add any value to the matter.
  • Billing for cover letters which contain no substance or analysis.
  • Billing the client time when they question the bill.
Come on.  You can do it.  Give me some additions to the list.  I know you have them!

Full post as published by The Greatest American Lawyer on May 19, 2010 (boomark / email).

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