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Originally Posted by manwiches
and then tack on per email, phone call, text...
i've been on the other end of this hosing when i was fighting my old employer. My lawyer told me that while annoying, take solace in knowing that my old employer's lawyer was pretty useless and was likely billing them insanely high. lol
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Lawyers don't tack on extra charges "per email/phone call/text" when billing by hourly rate. That's inclded in the time billing. When you see those notes on the bill it's a description of what the lawyer did during that time.
And an email may take me 5 minutes or an hour, depending on what it's about, what I had to do to get the info to put in it, etc. A phone call might be 5 minutes or two hours. When I get a text from another lawyer or a client on business, it will be my first.