Ethics of Alternatives to Billable Hours

Posted by Alan Childress

Lots of law blogs have bemoaned billable hours and the ethical implications of this payment system.  On our blog, and her own, Nancy Rapoport has nicely raised such issues for a while now.  Jeff and Mike have chimed in from time to time.  Now David Giacalone at his f/k/a blog here is asking to move the debate beyond billables and into the ethics and practicalities of the alternatives.  And he has a good round-up of and links to various blogs currently replying to Scott Turow’s recent polemic on the subject in August’s ABA Journal.