International Law

RainToday Report: 76% of Law Firms Discount Fees
Pricing has been a frequent topic at More Partner Income.  Some past topics include the science behind pricing, the ill effects of inflation on pricing, pricing management, and discounting...

Marketing Begins with Your Product - PART FOUR: Pricing Analysis
We’ve discussed identifying problems, providing solutions and packaging legal services in the first three parts of this series. In Part Four, I’ll discuss pricing analysis and how this affects inbound marketing...

Value Pricing: Just Do It
There have been a few posts on this blog about value pricing and its place in an innovative law firm. Value pricing dispenses with billable hours and instead charges clients based on (surprise) the subjective value of the work performed...

Bafflegabble from Rogers on iPhone pricing
Tris posts a disappointingly empty response from Rogers on the growing controversy over iPhone plan pricing. This one’s a gem: “The iPhone bundles were created to provide the best value to our customers...

Google's New Subscription Pricing Approach for Email Archiving
Here is an interesting article about how Google is pricing its Postini email archival and e-discovery solution. With Google, Yahoo and now Dell, all entering the email archiving game through recent acquisitions, it will be interesting to see how the pricing models shake out.

Brauner: The Valuation of Intangibles for Transfer Pricing Purposes
Yariv Brauner (Florida) has posted Value in the Eye of the Beholder: The Valuation of Intangibles for Transfer Pricing Purposes on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article assesses the desirability of our current, arms' length based, transfer pricing regime...

Anzemet Pricing
Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc. agrees to $22.7 million settlement for inflating drug prices.

ValueClick
allegedly violated consumer protection laws by promising ‘free’ goods that where not actually free.