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Why E-Billing Programs Often Fail For Smaller Customers

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The Legal Bill Reviewer blog is written and maintained by John Conlon. It is written for all those who are interested in the art and science of reviewing legal bills, legal ethics issues impacting legal billing, and in litigation management issues that affect legal costs.

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Opinions that matter

"Hours spent reading background cases or familiarizing oneself with the general area of law should be absorbed in the firms' overhead and not be billed to the client." Gudenkauf v. Stauffer Commc'ns, Inc., 953 F.Supp. 1237, 1243 (D.Kan.1997) (citing Ramos v. Lamm, 713 F.2d 546, 554 (10th Cir.1983).

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What the ethics of the legal profession say about legal fees

“To the extent the lawyer must spend excessive amounts of time preparing for tasks that with experience become routine, the lawyer should not expect the client to pay for the lawyer’s education” citing In re Estate of Larson, 694 P.2d (Wash. 1985). ABA Annotated Model Rules of Prof. Conduct (7th ed. 2011), Comments to RPC 1.5 at p. 27.

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Did You Know

The Laffey Matrix is used as a guideline for attorney fees in courts in the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore area. This fee schedule is also used by some other courts as well. The fee schedule is prepared by the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of Columbia. The matrix is intended to be used in cases which a fee-shifting statute permits the prevailing party to recover reasonable attorney fees.

The Last Word

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