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FEELING THE SQUEEZE
Kansas City attorneys have bargain basement rates compared to lawyers in bigger markets. In 2010, Kansas City partners charged an average $387 per hour, according to sister publication Missouri Lawyers Weekly’s fourth annual Billing Rates report. Their counterparts in New York billed at an average more than double that.
FEELING THE SQUEEZE
This is our fourth year tracking attorneys’ billing rates as found in court filings. The result is an exclusive sampling of rates of 269 attorneys at 27 firms in Missouri and elsewhere.
This year, in addition to the 102 Missouri lawyers’ rates, we include the rates of 37 Missouri law firm staffers, and the fees charged by 167 attorneys and 77 staff members from offices and firms in [...]
Billing Rates 2010
The third annual Billing Rates list includes the rates of 106 Missouri attorneys and 28 staff members.
Billable Hours
Missouri Lawyers Weekly‘s second annual billable rates listing includes the rates of more than 200 attorneys and 61 legal support staffers in Missouri. For comparison purposes, also included are the fees of 109 attorneys and 33 support staffers from offices and nine firms in other states who worked on some of the same cases as […]
Who bills What (433780)
A peek at the billing rates for hundreds of Missouri's top lawyers
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