Quotes About Billing

You have various institutions like law firms and accounting firms which bill by the hour. I'm really against that. You have an incentive to go slowly, be there as long as possible, to over-research things and over-staff.

If true, this meant Billing was guilty, if not of treason, then certainly insurrection. In a world worried by revolution and the rise of the radical right, he was a dangerous man.

Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.

When you give your time to someone, and they don't appreciate it, send them a bill.

Billing was the lifeblood of the firm. Everything revolved around it.

La mayoría de los buenos abogados pueden trabajar de ocho a nueve horas diarias y facturar doce. Lo llaman rellenar. No es demasiado honrado de cara al cliente, pero todo el mundo lo hace. Las grandes empresas han crecido gracias a las cuentas de relleno. Son las reglas del juego.

worked four thousand hours but billed only three thousand.

It was simply unheard of for a member of the firm to ignore his billing.

I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.

they were unable to hire a law firm with a top-notch white-collar government practice. By the time Bannon and Priebus were back in Washington, three blue-chip firms had said no. All of them were afraid they would face a rebellion among the younger staff if they represented Trump, afraid Trump would publicly humiliate them if the going got tough, and afraid Trump would stiff them for the bill. In the end, nine top firms turned them down.

How come everything in here looks black and white?" "Forgot to pay the color bill," I said. Actually,

chasing. A retainer means "pay me now for work I may or may not do later." Hourly bills are exercises in creative writing. Our "research time" gets us paid to learn what we should have known or to re-learn what we have forgotten.

La facturación es vanidad, los beneficios son sentido común».