Will the Billable Hour Ever Go Away?

The billable hour has taken a good beating over the years. But it’s far from dead.

No matter: General Electric’s top lawyer will take another swing.

Alex Dimitrief, who became GE’s general counsel in November 2015, has some pointed words on the matter, according to Jennifer Williams-Alvarez of Corporate Counsel :

“Law firms, in all honesty, are terrible at this,” says Dimitrief... “A law firm should describe what they did and why they are charging what they did. Instead, what you get is an administrative task that law firms delegate to administrative employees who haven’t been involved in the ...