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Welcome to Billing Rates 2022
Missouri Lawyers Media’s 2022 Billing Rates section examined fee applications filed with local state and federal courts to give a glimpse, however limited, into the amounts that lawyers in this state charge per hour for their services.
Billing Rates 2022: Void for vagueness: Courts trim fee requests that lack detail
Lawyers may not like keeping track of their time in six-minute increments. But when it comes to getting fees approved by the court, it appears there’s no such thing as too much detail.
Billing Rates 2022: The data
A deeper look at billing rates for Missouri attorneys and those who do significant business in Missouri, through charts and data.
Billing Rates 2022: Court says judge could, but didn’t have to, award fees for father’s successful appeal
Lawyers may not like keeping track of their time in six-minute increments. But when it comes to getting fees approved by the court, it appears there’s no such thing as too much detail.
Billing Rates 2022: Digital Edition
The digital edition for the 2022 Billing Rates section.
Billing Rates 2021: Fee awards few and far between during pandemic
This year’s edition of Billing Rates has been a long time coming. The numbers show that things still aren’t quite back to normal. Even with two years’ worth of data in this year’s edition, we found rates for just 182 Missouri-based attorneys — 15 percent fewer than in 2019, which covered one year.
Billing Rates 2021: The data
A deeper look at billing rates for Missouri attorneys and those who do significant business in Missouri, through charts and data.
Billing Rates 2021: Multipliers make good fee awards even better
Every so often, courts agree to add another layer of multiplication, boosting the final award to recognize a particularly tough case.
Billing Rates 2021: Digital Edition
The digital edition for the 2021 Billing Rates section.
Billing Rates 2019: The data
Click on each image to expand it, unless otherwise noted above the image. For the full list of billing rates for out-of-state attorneys who did work in Missouri in 2018, click here to download the PDF.
Lawyer’s fees prompt fight under Sunshine Law
A media organization in Kansas City is in the midst of a Sunshine Law fight with Clay County after an attempt to see how much an attorney was charging the county resulted in a large legal bill. “If this is not ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ I don’t know what it is,” said Bernie Rhodes of Lathrop […]
Judge: Watch for ‘red flags’ in fee requests
If you’ve ever thought submitting an application for attorneys’ fee is a tedious and time-consuming job, think of the judge on the receiving end of your request. “We want to be lawyers, not accountants,” said Judge Nanette K. Laughrey. Laughrey, a senior U.S. district judge for the Western District of Missouri, gave her candid thoughts […]
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