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Congratulations, the mere fact that you have decided to see how you can make technology work for your...
Legal Billing Rule #13: Make Small Improvements Each Quarter
Don’t try to introduce new changes to your office practices all at once. Instead, incorporate a couple every quarter, starting with the most important...
Legal Billing Rule #4: Don’t Poison Relationships and Scare Away Business
Sending late, large, and surprising bills will ruin your relationship with your clients and hurt your chances of earning more business from them.
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Legal Billing: The Five Levels of Success
We’ve taken observations from thousands of law firms, extracted some criteria, and constructed a simple scale of billing effectiveness. Typically, we see law firms...
Legal Billing Rule #7: Avoid Communication Breakdown
A regular, descriptive bill is a nice backstop to ensure that you are keeping the client well-informed and that you are on top of...
Lawyers Should Uphold Integrity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
The legal profession has always been guided by high standards of ethics, transparency, and fairness. Clients rely on lawyers not only for expertise, but...
AI will destroy the billable hour
Jeff Bleich, the top lawyer at Claude-maker Anthropic, told last week’s American Bar Association White Collar Crime Institute in San Diego: “I don’t think...
What are the Going Law Firm Rates by Practice Area? (USA)
What rates can corporate counsel expect to spend for outside counsel by practice area? The chart nearby, while complex at first glance, encompasses an...
The Ethical Lawyer as opposed to the Billable Hour
There are certain topics of conversation that are best avoided, religion, politics and money, are dangerous conversation starters. As is the billable hour and...
Legal Billing Rule #14: Rolling Out Changes and Letting Your Clients Know
Let your clients know in-person when you are making a change to your billing practices.
Part of the billing process is good communication....
DEVALUING THE ASSEMBLY LINE (Why AI Is Cannibalising the Billable Hour?)
There’s a delicious little problem stalking the carpeted corridors of law firms. Legal-tech vendors arrive bearing dashboards and the evangelical promise that their software...
Legal Billing Rule #3: Not Billing in a Timely Fashion Sends a Message
When you don’t send bills in a timely fashion, you send your client a message that receiving prompt payment really isn’t all that important...
