Comments on: Bill padding, and lots of it

By: Dick

Dick — Wed, 02 May 2007 09:45:40 +0000

The funniest part of publishing the survey results is it assumes those who said they didn’t double bill … were telling the truth!!

Also, what percentage of them were corp/gov lawyers that are paid a salary, instead of by the hour?

By: Ted

Ted — Wed, 02 May 2007 07:43:57 +0000

I’m guessing that Mr. Schultz didn’t read the linked Point of Law article that demonstrates his kneejerk personal attack was utterly baseless.

(And a good thirty to forty percent or so of the hours I billed in my legal career were on behalf of plaintiffs or counterplaintiffs, and that doesn’t include another ten percent or so on behalf of intervenors or petitioners who weren’t defendants.)

By: jhs

jhs — Wed, 02 May 2007 01:42:38 +0000

I’m guessing Overlawyered.com won’t catch that the lawyers who bill by the hour are defense lawyers, not those dread “trial lawyers” who work on a contingent fee while spending every waking minute figuring ways to destroy Free Enterprise.