Two New Tools Allow You to Compare Major Firms’ Billing Rates
May 11, 2014

Call it keeping up with the Joneses (or at least the Jones Days): Two new products provide peeks into the billing rates being...

To Cut Costs, Cut Associates’ Billable Hours Through Technology
September 21, 2013

D. Casey Flaherty deals mostly with Kia Motors America's outside law firms, and he often delivers this jolt: "I genuinely believe that partners' billing rates are too low." But the corporate counsel follows with this: " ... at least compared to billing rates for associates." Flaherty's concern is overspending on work assigned to associates, paralegals and others who bill time, not the high-priced partners whose experience and judgment he values. His unique approach is showing law firms they...

Comparing Firm Billing Rates by Practice, City, Size
September 8, 2013

For in-house counsel who want to do some comparison shopping on law firm billing rates, a new analysis from TyMetrix Legal...