Is the Billable Hour Obsolete?
Clients are getting fed up with being charged high rates for six-minute increments of time, and some law firms are finally changing their ways.
Leigh McMullan Abramson
Leigh McMullan Abramson is a lawyer and writer. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Tablet Magazine, and Town & Country.
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Most still keep hard copies of old case files and have their lawyers manually track their hours in six-minute increments. Changes are arriving—slowly.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Parents in Law: Is It Possible to Be Both an Attorney and a Committed Mom or Dad?
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