billing

When To Return a Client’s Fee

August 31, 2010

A lawyer recently faced a situation in which she had agreed to represent a client at a hearing, had collected the fee in advance and made arrangements to meet the client at another location before the hearing. The lawyer prepared for the hearing and went to the agreed-upon meeting place, but the client did not [...]

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Do You Trim Your Own Time?

July 30, 2010

Regardless of how you track your time, make sure it is accurate. Around these parts, we use Freshbooks for tracking our time in cases, and it works great for the most part. But even when your time is accurate, are you cutting your own time?

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Flat-Fee Billing Can Set You Free

July 30, 2010

Hourly billing is a trap. The only way hourly-based attorneys can improve their situation is to either bill more hours or raise fees. Two options. How limiting is that? But, that is the “practice” model inherent in the industry and we have to stick to it, right? Wrong.

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Credit Card Processing Tips for Lawyers—Don’t Get Ripped Off

July 28, 2010

Guest post by Stella Fayman. Lawyers who own their own practices must be aware of all aspects of their business. One often overlooked aspect is credit card processing, or merchant account processing. If your law office plans to accept credit cards as a form of payment, you will need to choose a merchant account provider [...]

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Webinar: Alt. Billing, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Lawyering

July 22, 2010

At 12:00 pm CDT tomorrow, that is, Friday, July 23rd, 2010, we will be re-playing our epically-titled webinar on alternative billing and fee arrangements: My law firm has evolved from a mostly-hourly-billing practice five years ago to a no-hourly-billing practice today. We use flat fees and a subscription model, as well as unbundled services and [...]

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Freshbooks: My Gold Standard for Timekeeping and Billing

July 6, 2010

I have been using Freshbooks for timekeeping and billing for over two years, since March 2008. I discovered Freshbooks in December 2007, started testing it with the free account, and quickly decided that Freshbooks is a better solution than anything I had used before (Time Matters, Timeslips, ProLaw, and Amicus). I’ve used it ever since, [...]

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