Large Firms
Nov. 1, 2008
Billable Hour Likely to Face More Scrutiny in a Lean Economy
As an engineer for General Electric more than 20 years ago, Pam Scholefield knew her way around construction sites, and knew what it took to get large commercial and public works projects done.
Daily Journal Staff Writer SAN DIEGO - As an engineer for General Electric more than 20 years ago, Pam Scholefield knew her way around construction sites, and knew what it took to get large commercial and public works projects done. But as an attorney with her own firm this past decade mired in the world of billable hours, it was a different story. Then one day this spring, a contractor, who was not a client, asked her a question....
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