Increasing Your Fees

Billing Innovation Toolbox

Help for Moving Beyond the Billable Hour

On the Web

You’ll find articles and other information on fees and rate setting at these URLs:

• www.texasbar.com/members/buildpractice/lomp/billrate.htm

• www.abanet.org/litigation/litnews/practice/utmsbackground.html

• www.acca.com/infopaks/taskbasedbill.html

• www.adr-mediate.com/articles-rules_fee_agreements.htm

• www.altmanweil.com/about/articles/archive/article.cfm?articleID=141

• www.cba.org/EPIIgram/sept2001

• www.cobb-consulting.com/docaddedvalue.htm

• www.conferenceboard.ca/csle/utbms/default.htm

• www.connix.com/~garrison/guide.htm

• www.ddisoft.com/taskbase.htm

• www.independentcounsel.com/billrts.html

• www.lawsocnsw.asn.au/profreg/costguide

• www.manhattan-institute.org/MICS_3.pdf

• www.polisci.wisc.edu/~kritzer/research/Law_misc/legalbilling.htm

• www.tloma.on.ca/publications/9802-2.html

• www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/csilver/class/vita.htm#attorney’s%20fees

Books from the ABA Law Practice Management Section

These volumes provide valuable, practical information on fee setting:

• Billing Innovations: New Win-Win Ways to End Hourly Billing by Richard C. Reed. 1996.

• The Essential Formbook: Comprehensive Management Tools for Lawyers—Vol. II: Fees, Billing and Collection by Gary A. Munneke and Anthony E. Davis. 2001.

• Flying Solo: A Survival Guide for the Solo Lawyer, 3rd edition, edited by Jeffrey R. Simmons. 2001.

• How to Draft Bills Clients Rush to Pay by J. Harris Morgan with Julie M. Tamminen. 1995.

• How to Get and Keep Good Clients, 2nd edition, by Jay G Foonberg. 1990.

• How to Start and Build a Law Practice, 4th edition, by Jay G Foonberg. 1999.

• Strengthening Your Firm: Strategies for Success, edited by Arthur G. Greene. 1997.

• Win-Win Billing Strategies: Alternatives that Satisfy Your Client and You, edited by Richard C. Reed. 1992.

Course Materials

• "Task-Based Billing and Other Fee Arrangements for the New Millennium." Course materials from the ABA Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law’s 2001 Annual Meeting program. Available on CD-ROM, these in-depth papers focus on measuring law firm performance, managing outside counsel relationships, and the history and background of task-based billing, plus fee-arrangement proposal documents.