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Betsy McCoy knew something was wrong. The general counsel received 130 "nicely packaged" bills from one of her regular outside law firms. As she pored…

Lawyers always find creative ways to bill, says Marci Waterman, a managing director at Sterling Analytics Group LLC, in Woodbury, New York, part of a…

July 11, 2011 - "In our experience, if such costs aren’t managed properly, they can inflate to anywhere between 20 and 40 percent over what…

May 11, 2011 - "What Paige is really attacking is an entire business model, the big-firm practice of hiring armies of associates and paying them…

April 19, 2011 - "The chief executive and founder of Sterling Analytics, which analyzes legal fees, said there are 'too many attorneys on the case,…