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Forbes: "Kill the Billable Hour"

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

In the most recent Forbes, just posted online, is Kill the Billable Hour / Lawyers should bill the way Joe the Contractor does by Evan R. Chesler: I'm a trial lawyer. I bill by the hour. So do the associates who work for me. I have lots of clients, so I can pretty much work, and bill, as much as I want. This needs to be fixed. Yes, you read that correctly. Clients have long hated the billable hour, and I understand why. The hours seem to pile up to fill the available space. The clients feel they have no control, that there is no correlation between cost and quality. . . . The billable hour makes no sense, not even for lawyers. If you are successful and win a case early on, you put yourself out of work. If you get bogged down in a land war in Asia, you make more money...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on January 07, 2009 (boomark / email).