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From the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog today: New research suggests lawyers who work by billable hours (i.e., most defense lawyers) routinely pad their bills and unethically double-bill clients. I will be waiting with baited breath for Cardozo law prof and Manhattan Institute ethics "expert" Lester Brickman, who never misses a chance to bash plaintiff lawyers for alleged contingency fee abuses, to express outrage over this..
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» Ross Billing Ethics Survey from PointOfLaw Forum
WSJ Law Blog reports on Professor William Ross's recent survey of 251 attorneys, which indicates that most attorneys are aware of other attorneys who pad hours. I don't disagree with this conclusion, but I think the problems of bill-padding and... [Read More]
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