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In the Business of Billing?
Lawyers Say a Rush for Money
Is Shaking Profession's Standards
The Washington Post
Sunday, March 22, 1998; Page H01
By David Segal
Washington Post Staff Writer
© Copyright 1998 The Washington Post Company
| Executives at Sporicidin Co. figured they needed a few good lawyers back in 1991.
Instead, they wound up with a few dozen. Altogether, 53 attorneys and paralegals from the D.C. law offices of Baker & Hostetler logged time trying to convince federal regulators that the Rockville company's sterilizing solution should be allowed on the market. After spending about $830,000 in legal fees in less than a year and a half, Sporicidin's executives hired an auditor to examine its bills. ... "They were just throwing lawyers at the problem and billed heavily from the word go," said John Toothman, an attorney for Sporicidin. ... |