Fair deal for all clients
Subtitle: how to rekindle pride in the legal profession
By: Gerald F. Phillips
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781611631265
Subjects: Practice of law; Moral and ethical aspects; Lawyers; Corrupt practices; Attorney and client; Fees; Popular works; Legal ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The crisis in the legal profession; title: Why is the legal profession in crisis?; title: Law firms stimulate their attorneys to add hours; title: How attorneys abuse hourly billing by block billing; title: How attorneys abuse hourly billing by excessive incremental billing; title: How attorneys abuse hourly billing by charging excessive billing rates; title: How attorneys abuse hourly billing by over staffing and billing unnecessary hours; title: How attorneys abuse hourly billing by other means; title: How courts and arbitrators determine reasonable fees; title: How to prevent billing fraud; title: How clients should protect themselves; title: How law firms can prevent abuse of hourly billing; title: How the aba can stop billing abuses; title: How law schools can help to stop billing abuses; title: The legal profession is headed for destruction.