Many lawyers practicing today remember a very different profession that existed when they came to the bar.

Every lawyer had a county bar association fee schedule in his desk drawer, which set forth the “approved” fee to be charged for such common services as a residential real estate closing, simple will, uncontested divorce or misdemeanor court appearance. All lawyers billed in accordance with the schedule, apparently without regard to the anti-competitive implications and unburdened by unseemly price competition.

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