Qwest Communications general counsel Richard Baer explains to Amy Miller why he isn’t switching to alternative fee deals
Richard Baer, general counsel of Qwest Communications International, didn’t get the memo. Practically everyone in the in-house legal community seems to think that alternative fee arrangements are the future of the legal marketplace. Baer, however, doesn’t. At a recent conference in New York, he said that trashing the billable hour had not worked out for Qwest. In fact, he said, “alternative fee arrangements have been a colossal train wreck for us”.
