my learned commie friend is correct
if i walk out within 45 mins, i can bill £332 plus VAT and disbursements.

if it lasts 5 hours, i can bill £2,075 plus VAT and disbs.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 9:55, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

Ohhh.... Disbursements! Of course!
*is still none the wiser*
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 9:57, Reply)

it's expenses that aren't advice related
photocopying, counsel's fees, travel to court, taxis, food, legal process server's fees, court fees etc etc.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 10:02, Reply)

So do you charge for expenses as well as disbs?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 10:04, Reply)

She charges for fucking everything, you can bet on it.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 20 Oct 2011, 10:08, Reply)

It's amazing
lawyers don't eat normally, apparently. That can be the only justifiable reason for food being an "expense"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 10:09, Reply)

if you have a mediation
so you have a room for your clients, a room for the other side and their lawyers, and a room for the mediator, that is 3 x lunch. now we are a fancy city firm. we're not talking a pikey packet of prawn mayo. we're talking a proper catered buffet.

someone gotta pay for that shit!

obviously i don't charge for lunches if i am not actually in a meeting and spending money on the client...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 10:12, Reply)

I know it's the way the game is played
but I'm fairly sure when my company lays on lunch for a client they don't actually charge them for it.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 20 Oct 2011, 10:13, Reply)

we don't always bill it
every case is different
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 10:23, Reply)

Only when the clients are penniless orphans, innit?

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 20 Oct 2011, 10:40, Reply)

Anyone would think that one or both of us had been through a bitter divorce
or other costly legal proceeding based on the tone of this conversation.

Where as actually my divorce was amicable with not a lawyer in sight and the only time I've been in a court was as an observer.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 20 Oct 2011, 10:12, Reply)