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BigLaw: An Imperfect Solution to Bill Padding in Large Law Firms

By Marin Feldman

Originally published on March 8, 2009 in our free BigLaw newsletter. Hailed by law firms and cursed by their clients, the billable hour remains the lifeblood of the legal profession. With primacy comes the risk of abuse. Risk? Actually, fact. Padding hours is a dirty little secret of the large firm world. How does it occur? Can it be stopped? Let's take a look. Falsifying billable time occurs in several ways. On a micro level, attorneys can work slowly on assignments to rack up time or they can pad their time entries with extra hours. And on a macro level, while no law firms pad their attorneys' hours outright (or at least have been caught), most have fee arrangements and attorney compensation and advancement policies that don't exactly discourage their associates from overbilling...continue to full post

Full post as published by TechnoLawyer Blog on March 08, 2010 (boomark / email).