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Beyond the billable hour : an anthology of alternative billing methods / edited by Richard C. Reed.

Title
  1. Beyond the billable hour : an anthology of alternative billing methods / edited by Richard C. Reed.
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  1. Chicago, Ill. : ABA Section of Economics of Law Practice, c1989.
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Additional authors
  1. Reed, Richard C., 1921-2008
  2. American Bar Association. Section of Economics of Law Practice
Description
  1. vi, 227 p. : ill.; 28 cm.
Subject
  1. Lawyers -- Fees -- United States.
  2. Costs (Law) -- United States.
  3. Law offices -- United States.
Contents
  1. How did we get to where we are : and what are we going to do about it? / Richard C. Reed -- A perspective : from value billing to time billing and back to value billing / Mary Ann Altman -- The value curve and the folly of billing-rate pricing / William C. Cobb -- The short, happy life of hourly fee billings / Jay G. Foonberg -- Hourly billing : a thing of the past? / Alberta I. Cook ; The hourly fee system is a devilish creature” / Kenneth Roberts ; Helping clients understand the billing process / Mark A. Dombroff -- A letter from the corporate counsel / Richard P. Delaney -- Hourly charges in divorce cases are archaic / Leonard L. Loeb -- Automating lawyers : does it help the bottom line? / John G. Iezzi -- He who pays the piper / Roger Fisher -- Learning from how others bill / Jeffrey L. Tolman -- Billing by the hour should be banned / Jeffrey L. Tolman -- Responsibility, expertise, productivity : the true measure of value if a lawyer’s services / Richard C. Reed --^
  2. Pros and cons of alternative fee structures : beyond hourly fees / Jesse D. Miller -- Time for business-lawyers to stop billing time? / Geoffrey Furlonger -- Billing for technological overhead / Robert S. Hochdorf -- The argument for separate billing of some overhead costs / Robert J. Arndt -- Setting billing rates : a new(?) view / Robert J. Arndt -- Legal pricing strategies require a great deal of skill and knowledge / Milton W. Zwicker -- Value-added pricing of legal service / Milton W. Zwicker -- A look at the ethical rules; fee shifting in the federal courts / Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr. & W. William Hodes -- The role of lodestar in the setting of attorney fees / Sidney C. Volinn -- Cost containment : or a route to greater client satisfaction through increased efficiency / Charles Hansen ; Avoiding line item review : Emerson Electric’s approach to litigation budgeting / Larry Smith -- What is a case plan : and how do you go about making one? / Harold A. Feder --^
  3. A proposal for improving litigation team management : task-based billing / Edward P. Liebensperger -- Value billing : five approaches from small-firm practitioners : first approach / Edina R.S. Alvarez ; Value billing : second approach / Demetrios Dimitriou ; Value billing : third approach / Ronald W. Del Sesto ; Value billing : fourth approach / Lowell E. Rothchild ; Value billing : fifth approach / J. Harris Morgan -- Legal fees : what’s fair? / Samuel L. Reed -- Getting out of the hourly rate quagmire : other billing alternative / Ezra Tom Clark, Jr. -- Client acceptance of alternative pricing / Donald S. Akins -- What’s happening in California and how to cope / Luther J. Avery.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Language
  1. English
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 227).
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