The REAL Reason for license fee increases

[B. Lafferty]

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> "B. Lafferty" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> No. Either the attorney is billing the hours to the client or he isn't.
>> Pro bono means that the attorney's labor is not being billed. It is
>> usually used in the area of charity work, which I suppose, USAC actually
>> is in perhaps more ways than one.
> Brian -
>
> I recall, in the distant past, how one lofty, senior partner regarded
> pro-bono (which is not always free - it can be at reduced rates, also).
> He said to tell him how much the reduced fee was, the rate, and he could
> calculate the hours he had spent - backwards.

I would not consider a discounted rate to a for profit client to be pro bono
publico. To a not for profit the discounted portion would be pro bono.
Either way the lawyer isn't billing for actual hours worked.

I also recall a partner in one firm I worked at refer to the weekly time
sheet as the weekly novella.

 

[Curtis L. Russell]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:56:32 GMT, "B. Lafferty" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> If
>the attorney in question did in fact do the work for USAC pro bono, then
>USAC was not billed as Crit Pro alleges.

Implies. The $ 100,000 could also be seen as a non sequitor, relating
to other work, tossed in to kick start a thread.

I have to say that I read the $ 100,000 as not being related to the
article, once I read the article. Even if the attorney had billed for
the work, $ 100,000 would have required IMO a lot of sandbagging to
rack up 500 or so hours for that one task. 500 hours for 8 hours worth
of work seems excessive, even down here in DC. Well, unless we're
talking the government or something.

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

 

[Stewart Fleming]

Curtis L. Russell wrote:


> Well, New York will probably reach out and bite them in Colorado.
> Their attorney general Spitzer is forging ahead when people are
> looking for guidance. What he forces into place in NY will be the de

He's also doing great work busting eBay scams and phony auctions.

 

[Stewart Fleming]

Curtis L. Russell wrote:


> Well, New York will probably reach out and bite them in Colorado.
> Their attorney general Spitzer is forging ahead when people are
> looking for guidance. What he forces into place in NY will be the de

He's also doing great work busting eBay scams and phony auctions.

 

[Stewart Fleming]

Curtis L. Russell wrote:


> Implies. The $ 100,000 could also be seen as a non sequitor, relating
> to other work, tossed in to kick start a thread.

Dumas, I KNOW how to spell non-sequitur.
(Gratuitous comment about not using them to cut hedges deleted).

 

[Stewart Fleming]

Curtis L. Russell wrote:


> Implies. The $ 100,000 could also be seen as a non sequitor, relating
> to other work, tossed in to kick start a thread.

Dumas, I KNOW how to spell non-sequitur.
(Gratuitous comment about not using them to cut hedges deleted).

 

[Curtis L. Russell]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:34:11 +1300, Stewart Fleming
<[email protected]> wrote:

>He's also doing great work busting eBay scams and phony auctions.

So we're saying that USAC is working eBay? So maybe the USAC-certified
Postal frame ridden by Lance maybe ISN'T really worth $ 20,000? Wonder
if I can get the Center's money back...

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

 

[Curtis L. Russell]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:35:11 +1300, Stewart Fleming
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Dumas, I KNOW how to spell non-sequitur.
>(Gratuitous comment about not using them to cut hedges deleted).

What the hell, Dumas is the best thing I've been called in a long
time. I know what he's written, but I can't remember if he did the
novels or the screenplays.

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

 

[Stewart Fleming]

Curtis L. Russell wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:35:11 +1300, Stewart Fleming
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>>Dumas, I KNOW how to spell non-sequitur.
>>(Gratuitous comment about not using them to cut hedges deleted).
>
>
> What the hell, Dumas is the best thing I've been called in a long
> time. I know what he's written, but I can't remember if he did the
> novels or the screenplays.

I believe that he wrote an adaptation of the Count of Monte Cristo as a
teleplay for ABC.

 

[Howard Kveck]

In article <[email protected]>,
"B. Lafferty" <[email protected]> wrote:

> "Mark & Steven Bornfeld DDS" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> > B. Lafferty wrote:

> >> You do know what pro bono meads, right?
> >
> > Certainly not an amateur bono!
>
> Nor a Sonny Bono.

He's in favor of that guy who sings for U2...


"It's fooking great!"

--
tanx,
Howard

"It looks like the squirrel's been showing everybody
where he keeps his nuts."

remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?

 

[Sam]

"B. Lafferty" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "crit pro" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/7182.0.html
>>
>> USA Cycling paid Dan McCloud over $100,000 in lawyer consulting fees in
>> 2004.
>>
>> Duh!
>>
>> cp
>
> That may or may not be true, but not according to the VeloNews article:
>
> On the advice of an attorney, Bisceglia notified the board, and then the
> board asked attorney Dan McCloud to serve as outside counsel in the
> matter, a service Hellman says the attorney performed pro bono.
>
> You do know what pro bono meads, right?
>

That one is anti-Cher?

 

[Donald Munro]

B. Lafferty wrote:
>> >> You do know what pro bono meads, right?

Mark & Steven Bornfeld wrote:
>> > Certainly not an amateur bono!

B. Lafferty wrote:
>> Nor a Sonny Bono.

Howard Kveck wrote:
> He's in favor of that guy who sings for U2...

And tours Africa with soon-to-retire US Treasury Secretaries.

 

[Curtis L. Russell]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:00:00 GMT, "Sam" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>> You do know what pro bono meads, right?
>>
>
>That one is anti-Cher?

No, free drinks on the house, way back when.

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...