William (Bill) Ross, Professor of Law Cumberland School of Law

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Legal Fees

Books:

Legal Fees: Practice and Management (with John Toothman) (Carolina Academic Press, 2003).

The Honest Hour: The Ethics of Time-Based Billing By Attorneys (Carolina Academic Press, 1996);

Selected Articles:

An Ironic and Unnecessary Dilemma: Restrictions on Billing Guidelines and Submission of Legal Bills to Outside Auditors, 14 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy 527-88 (2000);

Kicking the Unethical Billing Habit, 50 Rutgers Law Review, 2199-2210 (1998);

The Ethics of Time-Based Billing By Attorneys, 58 Alabama Lawyer 40-43 (1997);

Measuring the Ethics of Hourly Billing Practices, 9 No. 2 Accounting for Lawyers 1 (1996);

Formulating Standards for Ethical Billing, 35 Law Office Economics and Management 301-07 (1994);

The Ethics of Hourly Billing By Attorneys, 44 Rutgers Law Review 1-100 (1991).

Professor Ross's works on billing ethics have been cited in more than 150 law review articles and in various judicial decisions, including the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Gisbrecht v. Barnhart, 535 U.S. 789 (2002).




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