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.