Report: Atlanta Lawyers Bill Close to $300 an Hour ... But Not For Many Hours
Statewide, lawyers are billing at $253 an hour on average, a report found, but they are only getting paid for 19 percent of their workday.
October 03, 2017 at 03:55 PM
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Atlanta lawyers charge an average of $293 per hour, ranking the city at No. 7 for pricey hourly rates out of the country's 10-largest metropolitan areas.
New York lawyers average the highest hourly rate, at $344, while Philadelphia lawyers are the lowest, charging $245.
That goes for users of Clio project management software at least. Clio used aggregated and anonymized 2016 data from 60,000 subscribers to its cloud-based practice management software (both lawyers and nonlawyers), plus a survey of 2,915 Clio users and non-users, for its latest Legal Trends Report.
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