Stat(s) Of The Week: Meeting In The Middle - Above the Law

Stat(s) Of The Week: Meeting In The Middle - Above the Law

Law firms and in-house counsel are light years apart on the role of the billable hour, but the two groups still find some encouraging common ground on pricing models.  A new survey by iManage and Above the Law asked law firms and corporate law departments which arrangements would better drive alignment between the two groups. Private practice lawyers were more than five times as likely as their in-house counterparts to choose hourly billing, whi…