Stupid, stupid, stupid | Murray Gottheil

By Murray Gottheil (August 22, 2023, 10:30 AM EDT) -- I once proposed raising our hourly rates and was met with furious resistance by the head of our litigation department who assured me that no assessment officer would ever permit lawyers to charge the amounts that I had proposed. He was a brilliant litigator and he was completely correct. However, he was not much of a businessperson and had not considered how rarely our accounts were assessed. I was more than willing to lose all of the assessments and rake in the extra dollars on more than 99 per cent of our files....