Well, people are doing it, even here in resistant-to-change Richmond, Virginia, although the big firms say it can't be done. A few gentlemen from Hirschler Fleisher have broken off to start a fixed-fee law firm. Check out this article from today's Richmond BizSense.
I wrote about this issue fairly recently. An article about a $995/hour bankruptcy lawyer from NYC, involved in the LandAmerica bankruptcy, got me thinking about what a silly/stupid/insidious/you-fill-in-the-blank-here model the billable hour really is.
Good luck Ramey/Michael Business Law Group P.C. Associates across the Greater Richmond Metro area are secretly cheering you on and hoping this may be the beginning of the end of the hated, dreaded, evil billable hour.
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