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Hourly billing 'incentivises inefficiency', says Neuberger

Don't you just love it when the judiciary (mostly ex barristers) criticize hourly rates when their careers at the bar earned them huge fees based on grotesquely high, guess what, hourly rates! As a mere litigation solicitor, I'm supposed to be able to either guess how much a case is going to cost at the outset and offer a fixed fee (the risk being all mine) or have to work under some contingency arrangement again at my risk. Yet the silence on the withdrawal of legal aid that pays solicitors, often at less than 50% of their expense of time, and after a lengthy delay, by the same judiciary is silent. I think I'll look for a different job. "Was that a Big Mac and regular fries, sir?"

17-May-2012

8:19 am