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If you decide to hire the attorney we connect you with, we can also get you at least a 40 %
discount on their hourly rates.
In an interview Thursday morning, Ruyak declined to discuss specific numbers but said the twin decisions to offer clients
discounts on hourly rates while extending payment deadlines had combined to create a a larger - than - expected drop in Howrey's realization rate.
So I'll grant you this — it's more effort than simply negotiating percentage
discounts on an hourly rate.
That, rather than
discounts on hourly rates, will bring prices down.
Not exact matches
In mid-July, the Cuomo administration released the just - signed contract with Guidepost, which stated that the company will be paid no more than $ 450,000 for the investigative work and includes a 10 - percent
discount on the company's normal
hourly rates, which still run as high as $ 652 for its highest - level personnel.
Topics covered include percentages, passage of time, tax and
discount in shopping context, inequalities, pay (
hourly rate and payroll deductions), ratio, and simple interest
on investment or loans.
-- authored by Circuit Judge Hurwitz [majority decision] and concurring opinion by Circuit Judge Reinhardt; discussed in our Oct. 10, 2015 post: District court in Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act case which substantially reduced fee request was reversed based upon its reliance
on inapt practice area
hourly rates, upon its
discounts for plaintiff's attorneys not delegating tasks to associates given that only small firms prosecuted these type of cases, and upon its use of stale prior fee awards involving fee claimant's attorneys.
Percentage
discounts are
discounts on standard
hourly rates based upon the volume of all or selected types of work performed.
As one expert states in the article, firms are under pressure to offer
discounts to their
hourly rate, so successful plaintiffs contingency work can counterbalance downward pressure
on rates.
Percentage
discounts ~
discounts on standard
hourly rates based upon the volume of all or selected types of work performed ~ are the most frequently applied alternative.
If necessary, other projects can be handled
on an
hourly basis but with
discounted rates and capped fees based
on estimates before legal work begins.
Overall billing
rates rose 4 %, but firm leaders reported that,
on average, their firms provided
discounts on 21 - 30 % of all
hourly rates.
Moreover, most clients do not consider
discounts or blended
hourly rates as alternative fees because they still rely
on the billable hour as a metric.
«
Discounts» alone, either as a
discount to
hourly rates or
on the final bill, especially without budgets and staff controls.
Because it depends so heavily
on knowing only four variables number of staff,
hourly rates, percentage commitment, and months to completion this budgeting method demonstrates the significance of controlling staffing and moving matters along, not just
discounting hourly rates, to keep fees down.
on types of AFAs tried provides a picture consistent with the provider perspective:
discounted hourly rates far outstripped any other AFA type at 83 %, trailed by fixed fee per matter and flat fee to handle «all matters in a given area,» at 69 % and 53 % respectively.
Even a flat fee based
on a
discounted price over an
hourly rate can result in sticker shock for a client.
Crane discussed a number of alternative fee arrangements including
discounted and volume
discounts (e.g. 15 per cent
on the standard
hourly rate, for example, when fees billed exceed $ 100,000 a year), and blended
hourly rates (such as $ 400 / hr blended
rate for all lawyers
on a file or $ 300 / hr for associates and $ 500 / hr for partners), as well as fixed and capped fees.
on discounting hourly rates.