Older attorneys remember the days when a legal bill was just a dollar amount for "services rendered," but today's bills are as thick as case files, and at least as detailed. Concerned over what lawyers are doing with their time and who's working on a matter -- whether to track diversity or to keep expensive but inexperienced first-year associates off the case -- clients demand exhaustive accounting from their outside counsel. One result: Lawyers end up billing for time spent on billing.
August 28, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Older attorneys remember the days when clients would get a bill with just a dollar amount and two simple words: “services rendered.”
“They don’t put up with anything close to that anymore,” said Christopher Hockett, a veteran litigator at Bingham McCutchen in San Francisco.
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