Interesting about this last quote: though the user is writing saying that there should NOT be a review site for lawyers, in the 2nd to last paragraph, s/he seems to lay out a set of factors that a Lawyer Rating site could be compiling and creating a wonderful, accurate, reliable rating score for a lawyer.
Lawyer rating agencies are not infallible.
It's rising more slowly than lawyers' rates, he acknowledged, but that's not saying much.
Expected to launch this year, the website will publish lawyers' rates, allowing consumers to compare.
Many judges freely attribute the court crisis to lawmakers in Albany, who have not raised the lawyers' rates since 1986.
In recent years, clients have begun to rebel against the billable hour, and at being charged senior lawyers' rates for work done by juniors.
Lawyers' rates are highly variable — they depend on years of experience, depth of specialization, technical proficiency, where the lawyer works, where the lawyer is geographically based, etc. I'd estimate the most senior, elite, highly specialized tech litigators working for big firms in major urban areas probably cost as much as $800 an hour or more.
In the bestseller Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg cited multiple studies finding that female medical students, political candidates, and lawyers rated themselves as less qualified than male counterparts rated themselves even if they had received higher external evaluations.
On face value, the lawyer visit rate at Homan Square, according to the newly disclosed documents, was 0.9% over nearly 11 years.
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