While many law firms continue to struggle with integrating alternative fee arrangements into their traditional billable hour structures, one firm has solved the problem by getting rid of the billable hour altogether.

On Nov. 1, Kathryn R. Doyle, former head of Philadelphia-based Drinker Biddle & Reath’s life sciences team, opened the doors to the Riverside Law Firm in Conshohocken, Pa., a new intellectual property boutique that exclusively bills on a flat fee basis.