Comments on: You can’t charge for that anymore

By: Law Firm Tells Associates - Only Use Expensive Research Tool When Clients Paying | Wolfe Law Group

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:35:27 +0000

[...] law firms and lawyers have abandoned the practice of nickel and diming their clients, just flat out rejecting that firms should charge for these expenses. Patrick Lamb publishes an entire blog on the subject (alternative [...]

By: Law Firm Tells Associates - Only Use Expensive Research Tool When Clients Paying | Wolfe Law Rocks

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:04:21 +0000

By: John Ryan

John Ryan — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:20:48 +0000

It always all about efficiency. That’s why the call from clients for flat rate billing, they don’t want to pay for inefficiencies. How many firms still use a disbursement tracking system that requires you to enter codes to track a $0.25 laser print or fax. The money spent in staff time was more then the disbursement recovery. The biggest inefficiencies are around paper handling, if your not paperless the staff count required will kill you.