How exactly do lawyers calculate their hours of service?

Some lawyers will charge for every time they stop and work on your task, no matter how brief that time period is. It really varies. By explanation. If a client sends 10 emails in a day when I am not already working on his matter, I will have to stop working on another matter 10 times to respond to his emails. read more

Sometimes lawyers just lie. They work two hours and bill for four. On the other end of the over-billing spectrum are inefficiencies resulting in overcharging. Some of this is intentional, some isn't. For example, a lawyer has a paralegal spend 2 hours performing a routine task, then bills another 2 hours for her own review. read more

About This Calculator. If you want to know how we arrived at that hourly rate, here’s the equation: ( ( Income / .7 ) + ( Expenses * 12 ) ) / ( ( Hours / 5 / 3 ) * 241 ) In other words, first we are putting your taxes back in, using 30% as a rough estimate of your tax rate. Then we add expenses. read more