Billable Hour Resources
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Books for Lawyers
Anonymous Lawyer: A Novel
Beyond the Bottom Line: The Search for Dignity at Work
Billing Innovations: New Win-Win Ways to End Hourly Billing
Boo to Billable Hours: A Lawyer's Guide to Better Billing
Burying the Billable Hour
The Destruction of Young Lawyers: Beyond One L
Double Billing: A Young Lawyer's Tale of Greed, Sex, Lies, and the Pursuit of a Swivel Chair
Ending the Gauntlet: Removing Barriers to Women's Success in the Law
The Firm of the Future: A Guide for Accountants, Lawyers, and Other Professional Services
Full Disclosure: The New Lawyer's Must Read Career Guide
Fundamentals of Law Office Management (West Legal Studies Series)
Gender on Trial: Sexual Stereotypes and Work/Life Balance in the Legal Workplace
The Handbook of Law Firm Mismanagement for the 21st Century
The Happy Lawyer: How to Gain More Satisfaction, Suffer Less Stress, and Enjoy Higher Earnings in Your Law Practice
How Lawyers Lose Their Way: A Profession Fails Its Creative Minds
In the Interests of Justice: Reforming the Legal Profession
Inside Outside: How Businesses Buy Legal Services
Judging Bertha Wilson: Law As Large As Life (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History)
Knowledge Management and the Smarter Lawyer
The Law Firm and the Public Good
Law School Confidential (Revised Edition): A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience: By Students, for Students
The Lawyer's Guide to Balancing Life and Work: Taking the Stress Out of Success
Lawyer's Lives Out of Control: A Quality of Life Handbook
Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility (Delmar Paralegal Series)
Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practices, Second Edition
Lives of Lawyers: Journeys in the Organizations of Practice (Law, Meaning, and Violence)
Managing People in Today's Law Firm: The Human Resources Approach to Surviving Change
Overcoming the 6-Minute Life
Pricing on Purpose: Creating and Capturing Value
Proceed With Caution: A Diary of the First Year At One Of America's Largest, Most Prestigious Law Firms
Professional's Guide To Value Pricing (Professional's Guide to Value Pricing W/CD)
Reach for the Top: Women and the Changing Facts of Work Life
Stress Management for Lawyers: How to Increase Personal & Professional Satisfaction in the Law
Transforming Practices: Finding Joy and Satisfaction in the Legal Life
Why Lawyers Should Eat Bananas
Why Lawyers Should Surf: Inspiration for Lawyers at Work and Play
Winning Alternatives to the Billable Hour, 2nd Edition: Strategies That Work
Books for Paralegals and Other Support Staff
Introduction To Paralegal Studies
Introduction to Paralegalism: Perspectives, Problems, and Skills, 6E (West Legal Studies Series)
Law Office Skills (West Legal Studies Series)
Paralegal Careers (The West Legal Studies Series)
The Paralegal Handbook (Paralegal Series)
Paralegal Studies : An Introduction (Paralegal Series)
The Successful Paralegal Job Search Guide
Surviving and Thriving in the Law Office (West Legal Studies)
Time IS Money When You're Paid by the Hour Stanford Graduate School of Business , August 2006
Report of the Missouri Bar Alternative Billing Methods Committee
ABA Commission on Billable Hours Report 2001-2002
Value Based Legal Fee Survey Results
An Empirical Study of Associate Satisfaction, Law Firm Culture, and the Effects of Billable Hour Requirements (Part Two*)
The Economics of Practicing Law: A 1998 Snapshot
The Truth about the Billable Hour
Law Firm Honored for Nap Perk, Flex Time ABC News International , September 1, 2006
When a Family Pays For the Home Office StartupJournal.com , July 24, 2006
Using Technology to Increase Profitability: Moving into Alternative Billing Via Technology DennisKennedy.com , June 21, 2006
The Billable Hour's Staying Power Small Firm Business , June 20, 2006
Battle of the Bills Austin Business Journal , June 9, 2006
Ron Baker's Value Pricing Mission SmartPros.com , June 2006
Lawyers and the Success Trap Fulton County Daily Report , May 8, 2006
Law-Firm Life Doesn't Suit
Some Young Associates Wall Street Journal Online , May 4, 2006
Extricating Yourself From the Stress Trap Immigration Daily , April 7, 2006
Why Do So Few Women Reach the Top of Big Law Firms? The New York Times , March 19, 2006
Getting the Balance Right: This NYC-Based Firm Has a New Take on Flexible Scheduling ABA Journal e-Report , March 17, 2006
Discontented in the Law: Supervised Lawyers Report Struggle to Balance Work and Family, Survey Shows ABA Journal e-Report , March 17, 2006
Four Realities of Value-Based Pricing Law Practice Today , March 2006
In the Land of the Fee Sunday Star-Times , February 5, 2006
How Much Does Your Hour Cost to Produce? Freedman Consulting , February 2006
The Billable Hour: Are Its Days Numbered? The American Lawyer , November 28, 2005
Beyond the Billable Hour: True Partnering Makes Alternative Fee Arrangements Work GC New York , November 14, 2005
Time is Money: Alternatives to the Billable Hour Small Firm Business , March 7, 2005
Your Right From Your Wrong: Hourly Billing The Docket , February 22, 2005
The Tyranny of the Billable Hour Washington Lawyer , January 2005
The Bane of the Billable Hour, Don't Miss the Next Great Opportunity AllBusiness.com , April 11, 2005
Alternative Billing for the "Main Street Lawyer" Law Practice Today , September 2004
The Billable Hour: If You're Gonna Use it, Use it
The Tyranny of the Billable Hour Lawyers Weekly (Australia), August 19, 2004
Value Billing
Has the Billable Hour Made Fools of Us? King County Bar Association Bar Bulletin , May 2004
The Billable Hour: Putting a Wedge Between Client and Counsel Law Practice Today , December 2003
Create Success: Stop Thinking Like a Lawyer Kellogg School of Management , March 7, 2003
Has Time Run Out for The Billable Hour? Vis-à-Vis Online , February 2003
Why We Don't Bill by the Hour www.vanmell.com , January 9, 2003
The Hours Legal Affairs , September/October 2002
Compensation Hildebrandt International , September 1, 2002
The Curse of the Billable Hour aish.com , July 7, 2002
Beyond Billable Hours Ingram's , July 2002
Looking Beyond the Billable Hour: Delivering Added Value Through Alliances and Ancillary Products/Services The Sugarcrest Report , April 19, 2002
Common Alternative Billing Methods and When to Use Them The Sugarcrest Report , April 19, 2002
The 15 Elements of Alternative Fee Success The Sugarcrest Report , April 19, 2002
10 Ways to Capitalize on Your Alrternative Fee Success The Sugarcrest Report , April 19, 2002
Help Me Hillary: Why are Lawyers so Unhappy? Vault.com , September 1, 2000
To Raise Your Prices, Change Your Theory accounting.smartpros.com , January 24, 2000
Money and Ethics: The Young Lawyer's Conundrum Washington State Bar Association Bar News , January 2000
Alternative Fees for Litigation: Improved Control and Higher Value ACCA Docket , 2000
Time, Billable Hours, Electronic Research and Ethics The True Bill , (newsletter of the North Carolina Bar Association's criminal justice section), November, 1999
Not Snow, Nor Sleet, Nor Gadget Boom Will Kill the Billable Hour National Law Journal , August 31, 1998
Off The Clock:Need an Attorney? New Fee Structures Offer Alternatives to the Billable Hour Entrepreneur Magazine , September 1997
Why Lawyers Can't Manage Law Practice Management , October 1993
Healthy Lawyers are More Fully Engaged The Complete Lawyer
Creative Billing: Is the Reign of the Almighty Billable Hour Over? LawCrossing.com
Four Alternatives to Hourly Billing for Small Firms Lawyers Weekly USA
Hookers, Cotton Gin Workers and Other Professionals The Ukranian Observer
Value Billing: Its Time Has Come tn-elderlaw.com
120 Hours a Month Billing Policy Korean and International Lawyers
Time is Money Legal Search Consultants
Why do Lawyers Leave the Law? Legal Ease Blog , March 9, 2007
How Much Do We Sacrifice For More Income? Build a Solo Practice, LLC , March 6, 2007
Hourly Billing Reduces Firm Profits The Greatest American Lawyer , March 4, 2007
Lawyer Unhappiness: Chicken Little at Law idealawg , March 3, 2007
Value Billing and Random Acts of Humanity Build a Solo Practice, LLC , January 26, 2007
The Billable Hour Turns People into Workaholics Work Matters , January 13, 2007
Pressure to Bill Leads to Questionable Billing Practices Legal Ease Blog , January 12, 2007
Hot Worms Revisited: Extreme Lawyers Often Love their Work idealawg , December 3, 2006
Happiness Equals Reality Divided by Expectations Spare Room Tycoon , November 30, 2006
Monica Parker: A Fun Exercise to Improve Work Life Balance JDBliss Blog , November 30, 2007
When You Value Bill, Be Sure To Tell The Client MyShingle , November 12, 2006
Independent Practitioners Balance Work With Play The Greatest American Lawyer , October 10, 2006
Report Finds Married Parents' Combined Work Hours on the Rise JDBliss Blog , September 6, 2006
One Step Closer to Value Billing LawBiz Blog , August 23, 2006
The Flexible Law Firm: Reality or Pipe Dream? Legal Sanity , July 19, 2006
Lawyers Taking Time to Smell the Roses? Legal Sanity , June 23, 2006
Lawyers & Love Anonymous Law Student , June 21, 2006
Value Billing: Too Nebulous to be Effective? Legal Ease Blog , June 15, 2006
How Can Lawyers See the Value in Value Billing If No One Will Tell Us What It Is? Law.com Legal Blog Watch , June 13, 2006
The Dilemma Over Legal Fees Legal Ease Blog , June 13, 2006
Is This Model Sustainable in the Long Term? Adam Smith, Esq. June 8, 2006
Setting Boundaries to Avoid Lawyer Unhappiness and Depletion Legal Sanity , June 8, 2006
If You Don't Discuss Value, Expect to Discuss Hours VeraSage Institute , June 6, 2006
Why Doesn’t Alternative Billing Take Hold? It Will Eventually Legal Marketing Blog , May 14, 2006
Do You Enjoy Practicing Law? South Carolina Trial Law Blog , May 9, 2006
Let's Assume Everyone Here's an Adult Adam Smith, Esq. April 26, 2006
Value Pricing Isn't Easy, But Neither is Writing off a Bill Golden Practices , April 13, 2006
Balance of Life LawBiz Blog , April 8, 2006
Work/life Balance in the Law Firm morepartnerincome , April 6, 2006
Is It The Hourly Bill Or The Lack Of Budget Which Is Most Harmful To The Client Relationship? Greatest American Lawyer , April 4, 2006
Market This: Only 17% of Partners are Women Larry Bodine's Legal Marketing Blog , March 19, 2006
Minimum Billing Increments and Rounding of Hours Law Practice Management , March 14, 2006
Charging a Client for Telling Him What He Owes You LawBiz Blog , March 17, 2006
Be a Master the [non]billable hour , February 16, 2006
The Firm of the Future - Ron Baker the [non]billable hour , February 7, 2006
The Firm of the Past - Ron Baker the [non]billable hour , February 6, 2006
As Our Clients See Us the [non]billable hour , January 5, 2006
Set Your Billing Rate at $10,000 Per Hour the [non]billable hour , November 30, 2005
Yea or Nay on the Billable Hour Adam Smith, Esq. , October 19, 2005
Is Billable Hour Here to Stay? The Legal Marketing Blog , October 21, 2005
A New Billing Model robhyndman.com , October 19, 2005
Have You Considered Alternatives to Hourly Billing Yet? Legal Marketing Blog , August 26, 2005
Trust Me Capitalism Greatest American Lawyer , August 10, 2005
The Business of Lawyering-the Billable Hour Model is Unfair to the Client A View From the Property Line , June 24, 2005
Another Argument Against Hourly Billing the [non]billable hour , June 17, 2005
Another Example of What's Wrong With the Billable Hour Managing the Business of Law with Richard A. Hall , May 19, 2005
Billable Hour Isn't Good for Clients or Lawyers Legal Marketing Blog , May 24, 2005
Alternative Billing for Small Firms Legal Marketing Blog , May 14, 2005
The Stankowski Report #2: The Billable Hour Requirement Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground , May 12, 2005
"No" on Hourly Billing Resecarchxtra.com , May 7, 2005
And That Inspiration You Had Jogging in Central Park Is What Fraction of a Billable Hour? Adam Smith, Esq. , April 27, 2005
Marketing Your Firm With Alternative Billing Greatest American Lawyer , April 26, 2005
Ron Baker & Price Sensitivity f/k/a , April 21, 2005
Ron Baker: Sensitive Guy? f/k/a , April 21, 2005
Chronomentrophobia f/k/a , April 19, 2005
Billable Hour Obsession Born of Firm Manager Laziness? Greatest American Lawyer , April 15, 2005
Alternatives to the Billable Hour Anything Under the Sun Made by Man , April 11, 2005
The Bane of the Billable Hour, Don't Miss the Next Great Opportunity SFGate.com , April 11, 2005
Is Your IP Attorney Stuck in the Sand? rethink(ip) , April 10, 2005
Can Patent Legal Work be a Commodity? Patent Barristas , April 7, 2005
Billable Hour Cliff Notes Greatest American Lawyer , April 6, 2005
LexThink About Higher Fees (er, Value Billing) f/k/a , April 6, 2005
Savvy Blawgers' Query #2: The Future of the Billable Hour Adam Smith, Esq. , April 1, 2005
All Apologies, Part Two Phila Lawyer , February 15, 2005
Alternative Fees vs. Billable Hour The Legal Marketing Blog , January 23, 2005
Time to Overthrow the Billable Hour? Legal Sanity , January 5, 2005
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The Billable Hour is Dead: Long Live the Billable Hour Adam Smith, Esq. , January 5, 2005
Comments on Five-by-Five by Managing Partner Phosita: an Intellectual Property Blog , November 9, 2004
Hourly Rates-Confusing Effort with Results Guerilla Consulting , October 23, 2004
Billable Hours Stay of Execution , April 21, 2004
Value Billing or Venal Bilking? f/k/a , February 17, 2004
Billable Hours Redux Stay of Execution , May 20, 2004
Value Billing Unethical? the [non]billable hour , January 30, 2004
Charging by the Hour Inchoate , February 15, 2004
Value Billing and Lawyer Ethics f/k/a , January 28, 2004
One Good Reason for Value Billing the [non]billable hour , January 27, 2004
The Problem With the Billable Hour, Part 1 the [non]billable hour , January 26, 2004
Ed Poll of LawBiz Management Associates interviews attorney Hugh Q. Gottschalk about alternative fee billing LawBiz Blog , September 5, 2006
Ed Poll of LawBiz Management Associates interviews Jeff Carr about alternative fee billing LawBiz Blog , August 28, 2006
Ed Poll of LawBiz Management Associates interviews Jeff Carr about alternative fee billing and shared risk LawBiz Blog , July 24, 2006
Ed Poll of LawBiz Management Associates interviews attorney Rick Simses about alternative fee billing LawBiz Blog , June 29, 2006
Get Another 22 Days Each Year! Ed Poll of LawBiz Management Associates interviews Gayle Carson, president of Carson Research Center, about time management LawBiz Blog , June 19, 2006
Ed Poll of LawBiz Management Associates interviews Ron Baker, author of Burying the Billable Hour , about value billing LawBiz Blog , May 15, 2006
Ed Poll of LawBiz Management Associates interviews Patrick J. Lamb, a partner in Chicago litigation firm Butler Rubin Saltarelli & Boyd LLP, about value added billing LawBiz Blog , November 2005
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