by Traverse Legal, reviewed by Enrico Schaefer - October 21, 2005 - Alternative Billing, The Billable Hour
Adam Smith blog conducted an informal poll about the future of the billable hour. To my surprise, the results showed a much higher awareness that the billable hour system is susceptible to demise. Perhaps bloggers are simply more informed than most other attorneys. We might suspect that devoted hourly billers failed to vote, being so busy billing hours! Check it out …
Also, here is another post of an email received by an antitrust lawyer at a major law firm, urging law firms to get ahead of the curve and abandon the billable hour before the client demands it.
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