The Billable Hour Enters a Whole New Dimension: Lawyer Billed Client For 34 Hours of Work in a Single Day
The Sydney, Australia-based lawyer was sued for overcharging.
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The Sydney, Australia-based lawyer was sued for overcharging.
Wells Fargo report delivers mostly good news for Biglaw, but a negative trend lurks. The post Biglaw Discovers That Charging $2,000/Hour Is Easier Than Actually Collecting It appea...
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The category of work clients are unwilling to pay for is expanding. What billing guidelines started, AI expectations will accelerate. Firms that haven't addressed the coordination...
Presumably the city budget office is run by recently graduated frat boys who looked at bills and said, 'Ha ha... 69!' The post Chicago Paid Lawyers Billing 69 Hours In One Day appe...
The next chapter of law will favour those who can preserve judgment, absorb technology and demonstrate that legal is not merely a brake, but sometimes a steering mechanism. The in-...
Life comes at you fast, especially at $162K a day. The post WilmerHale’s $35M Bill Comes Under Fire appeared first on Above the Law.
The excuses proved... unpersuasive. The post Lawyer Bills 36-Hour Day As Einstein’s Theories Meet Law Firm Management appeared first on Above the Law.
Speakers on a CLOC Global Institute panel agreed that AI will force law firms to adopt value-based pricing.
The Biglaw grind isn’t going anywhere. The post How Many Hours Is Your Soul Worth? Biglaw Has A Number appeared first on Above the Law.
Everyone's been busy billing at the firm. The post There Are No Slackers At This Biglaw Firm appeared first on Above the Law.
For Legal Operations professionals, the question is no longer whether AI will change the billable hour model, but whether your department is ready to manage that change. The post T...
For legal operations professionals, the question is no longer whether AI will change the billable hour model, but whether your department is ready to manage that change. The post T...
London's High Court found the firm had failed to give its client adequate costs information.
In the latest episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill and Ari Kaplan catch up on some of the key topics debated at The Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) […] T...
Agentic AI is now 10x faster and a fraction of the cost of human labor. A billing model built around hours of human time is no longer just inefficient — it is structurally incompat...
Please, someone check on them. The post The Biglaw Attorney Who Billed 3,451 Hours Last Year Deserves A Nap appeared first on Above the Law.
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I charged $300. She was ready to pay $3,000.
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We Ran The Numbers So You Can Feel Worse: The annual taxonomy of which law firms successfully converted billable hours into generational wealth confirms that yes, some firms are ve...
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