The Alternative Fee Lawyer
A blawg dedicated to a discussion of alternative methods of billing clients instead of the traditional billable hour.
Author: D. Michael Grodhaus is a partner at Waite Schneider Bayless & Chesley in Columbus, Ohio.
Blawg Related Categories: Trials & Litigation • Attorney Fees • Partner
Recent Posts from The Alternative Fee Lawyer
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Waite Schneider Bayless & Chesley In The News!
I'm happy to note that our law firm's switch to alternative fee arrangments has been noticed in Columbus.Last Friday's edition of Columbus Business First contained a feature article about our firm and how we "trashed"…
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Chicken Or Egg? Will The Switch To Alternative Fee Deals Come From Clients Or From Law Firms?
If you have at all followed the issue of billable hours v. alternative fees, there has been this assumption that unless and until clients – particularly the “Fortune 500” types of clients upon which big…
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Using The Purchasing Department To Select Outside Counsel?
There is an interesting article today on Law.com about a new trend -- corporations using their procurement departments to help hire outside counsel. I don't see that as necessarily a bad thing unless, as the…
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Bad Idea Of The Week -- Law School To Teach 3Ls How To Bill Hours
I saw this post today by Dan Slater of the Wall Street Journal Law Blog. Slater writes about the Washington and Lee School of Law's announcement that it is scrapping all of its academic classes…
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Ohio Bar President Predicts Demise of Billable Hour
In the March/April 2008 issue of the Ohio Lawyer, current Ohio State Bar Association President Robert F. Ware looks into his crystal ball and makes eight predictions on how the practice of law will change…
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The In-House Counsel Perspective
I just came across this fascinating blog called The Legal Thing: notes from a General Counsel by Mike Dillon, the General Counsel of Sun Microsystems.Mike's blog is interesting because it's not about a niche area…
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Canadians Not Wild About Billable Hours, Either
Another great post from Jay Shepherd about an article by John Intini in the Canadian magazine Maclean's, which Jay describes as the Time or Newsweek of the "Great White North"(where have you gone, Rick Moranis?).…
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U.K. Legal Survey Shows Same Client Concerns Over The Billable Hour
I found this post yesterday about a new report on the legal market in Great Britain entitled "The Law Firm of the 21st Century." The article notes several interesting responses to the survey conducted of…
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Timesheets & Alternative Fees
A fascinating debate is revealed in this post yesterday by Jay Shepherd in his great Gruntled Employees blog. The debate involves whether lawyers or law firms who have abandoned billable hours for alternative fee mechanisms…
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Angry In-House Counsel & The Perfect Storm of 2008
I just found this post from a month ago by Patrick J. Lamb from his blog In Search of Perfect Client Service. I mentioned Patrick's new Chicago law firm venture (though not by name) in…