Maybe — maybe — if the implied
arrangement included a 5 - day turn - around, I could buy into it; but I've heard too many horror stories of eight - week responses and year - long silences to see anything but a woefully
stacked deck.
Lest you think that Cravath is
stacking the
decks against itself with this kind of advice, Chesler reveals that his firm is «trying more and more to come to alternative fee
arrangements that make the billable hour irrelevant.»