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.
"There are sites like rate my doctor, rate my lawyer, rate my teacher, so why not have rate my cop?" he said.
Lawyer rating agencies are not infallible.
We are all paying for their lawyers via rate increases and the dumping of corporate expenses, which have been added to those calculations to justify the increases.
Mr. Pataki had previously turned aside calls to raise the lawyers' current rates of $25 an hour for out-of-court work and $40 an hour in court.
On face value, the lawyer visit rate at Homan Square, according to the newly disclosed documents, was 0.9% over nearly 11 years.
There's something wrong with this picture.' Second, it is evident that there are some claimants who could afford to pay their lawyers standard rates but they are entering into CFAs instead, enabling their lawyers to earn up to double the costs if they win the case.
Among the top 25percentt of lawyers, hourly rates climbed 4.9percentt in 2011 from the year before, according to the WSJ, which cites a report from the companies TyMetrix and the Corporate Executive Board.
Note: very few criminal defense lawyers are rated by Martindale-Hubbell and many of the best criminal defense attorneys do not participate in Martindale-Hubbell's directory and rating system.
A Web site that rates lawyers the way Zagat rates restaurants, by number, is protected by the First Amendment, a federal judge in Seattle ruled Tuesday.
