[E]veryone can provide a budget. Everyone can live with a budget. The real questions are whether lawyers will agree to do so and whether clients will walk with their wallets when lawyers don’t.
See Pat Lamb‘s short but fine piece on budgeting litigation costs with a client, a subject Hull McGuire is always re-thinking but infrequently getting right. “The Lie of Litigation Budgeting” is at his enduring and respected In Search of Perfect Client Service–the site which inspired the launch of WAC? three years ago. Pat, one the few litigators I’ve known with a natural gift for law firm economics, started the Valorem firm in Chicago earlier this year.