I’ve been having a lot of conversations lately about alternative fee arrangements (AFAs).

In a earlier column, I wrote that the death of the billable hour has been one of the most consistently overhyped nonevents in the history of Big Law. Indeed, despite the move to AFAs having been heralded for decades, the majority of high-value mandates are still handled on-the-clock.

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