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Read More »Randi Lewis: Top 5 reasons why partners change firms
Hundreds of city’s water system customers get bills over 50K
Hundreds of customers of Baltimore's water system received bills reaching over $50,000.
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Read More »Fewer law firms billing for database research
Law firms nationwide are increasingly absorbing the cost of online database research rather than billing clients for use of resources like Lexis or Westlaw.
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Read More »Medicaid now accepted at Carroll health clinic
In-House Interrogatory
The legal world has been abuzz about the public release of emails between DLA Piper attorneys encouraging each other to jack up clients' bills.
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Read More »Suspect Medicare billings found at 2,600 drugstores
WASHINGTON — It would take a mighty big pill box to hold them. A pharmacy in Kansas billed Medicare for more than 1,000 prescriptions each for two patients in a single year, part of a pattern of questionable billings at ...
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Read More »Clock ticks on billable hours
To bill (per hour) or not to bill (per hour)? That. Is the question. In today’s shaky economy law firms are talking about (and implementing) alternative payment methods to the traditional billable hour as corporations and other clients are less ...
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Read More »E-billing helps corporate counsel track spending on outside law firms
In-house counsel have never had an easier time comparing the hourly and package rates of their outside attorneys — that is, if they’re using electronic billing to track and review costs. Electronic billing, known in the industry as e-billing, has ...
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Read More »Baltimore public works promises billing changes
In the wake of water meter complaints, Baltimore’s Department of Public Works is promising an overhaul. At a City Council hearing Tuesday, Public Works Director Alfred Foxx announced preliminary plans for revamping water meter reading and billing. In the short ...
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Read More »The ‘new normal’ v. the billable hour
A “new normal” continues to take root at law firms, according to a survey showing increases in the use of alternative fee arrangements. Almost three in 10 in-house lawyers said they used more alternative billing arrangements in 2010, and 53 ...
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