Corporate law firms, by nature, are loath to reduce their published billing rates. Even in the throes of a recession, they tend to hike the promoted price tag or, at worst, hold steady.

But those numbers are becoming more like sticker prices on new vehicles. Firms that have basked in collective annual rate increases of 7 percent to 8 percent, several times the pace of inflation, find themselves forced to turn back the clock on the fees ultimately assessed.

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