Lawyer suspended over poor billing practices

Published: March 18, 2013

Tags: attorney discipline, billable hours, ethics, legal ethics

A lawyer who charged a client for six hours of time to prepare his bill – with an additional hour spent searching for the file – was recently suspended by the North Dakota Supreme Court.

This is not your parents’ legal marketplace

By: Matthew J. Prinn and Katie Reagan
Published: January 30, 2013

Tags: billable hours, fees, project management, technology

“This is not your father’s Oldsmobile.”

You may recall that famous advertising slogan from the 1980s. One could use a similar phrase when describing today’s legal marketplace. Changes in billing methods, improvements in technology, a turbulent economy and the globalization of the legal practice have left us with a landscape far different from the one we worked in even a decade ago.

Lawyer suspended for charging billable rate for non legal work

Published: December 27, 2012

Tags: attorney discipline, billable hours, billing, legal fees

A lawyer has been suspended for two years for charging a client hourly legal fees for both legal and non-legal services, including driving the ailing client and helping him move to a new home.