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flat fee billing Is Flat Fee Billing a Viable Alternative? Rather than setting price by a standard unit or result, alternative billing options focus on actions taken to benefit the client, beyond the time of how that value is applied. One of the simplest such options, and one that has increasingly received a great deal of attention in Canada, is billing for legal services at a flat rate. Podcast: Listen/view online (audio with synchronized presentation) Download audio (.mp3)

More Articles & Tips From Across the Web What About Clients?™ The Billable Hour: The Way of the Happy Rich Dinosaur? My Shingle: Make More With Flat Fees  “Firm Kills Billable Hour for First-Year Associates,” the National Law Journal, August 20, 2007 “Beat the clock,” the Boston Globe, October 8, 2007

National Magazine  This page is featured in the December 2007 issue of National. The Strongest Link Flat Fee Nation