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Perspective

Jun. 22, 2009

California Firms Make Strides Toward More Efficient Billing

Some big California firms actually seem to have gotten the message that they must be more efficient in their litigation management practices, writes Ken Moscaret.

By Ken Moscaret

Lately more and more media articles seem to be announcing the supposed demise of the large law firm model. Much attention has been focused on large New York City law firms, whose revenues and profits have been hammered by the current recession. Those East Coast law firms have supposedly not gotten the message yet that their corporate clients will no longer tolerate business-as-usual big-firm business practices.

There does not...

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