POSTED: Thursday, June 14th, 2012 at 1:41 pm

BY: ED POLL

An interesting issue can be raised about one type of alternative billing arrangement, namely a fixed or flat fee with the billing rate determined and stipulated in the engagement letter, before the assignment even begins.

POSTED: Thursday, October 7th, 2010 at 11:19 am

BY: ED POLL

One consistent theme to come out of the Great Recession is that the billable hour, if not dead, is dying as a metric of measuring law firm performance.