Unless the attorney can justify the hour spent on a two line email, the attorney cannot charge the client for it. Next, attorneys cannot charge you for emails when it violates their ethical duties and responsibilities.
Lawyers use email every day and are very familiar with the mechanics of sending and receiving email. However, because of its ubiquity, lawyers often get complacent about best practices for using email effectively and proficiently. Email can be a great communication tool, but it can also be dangerous.
You should discuss this with your seniors & partners and only their response will be the correct one. That said, billing for only reading emails without taking any action is generally seen as bad form and most clients HATE to see this on a bill.
All told, lawyers are busy professionals, and too much work (and other reasons) can prevent lawyers from responding to calls or emails from other lawyers. However, to keep communication open and to avoid inefficiencies, lawyers should return emails and phone calls to other attorneys as much as possible.
Usually a CPM price quote is calculated based on an estimated amount of emails sent per year, but billing might be per month or per campaign....Tiered rates.Number of emails sent:CPM ratePrice per email sent1 – 10,000$12$ 0.01210,000 – 50,000$10$ 0.0150,000 – 250,000$8$ 0.008
Lawyers charge a lot of money because they can and people/businesses will pay. That said, not all lawyers charge a lot of money. Some practice poverty law or are young or for whatever reason keep their fees lower.
Checking citations or other tasks to ensure legal accuracy. Assisting in discovery, e.g. review of documents, collection of relevant materials from the client, transmission to the court and opposing parties, etc. Preparing forms, correspondence, and other legal documents.
If you bill by the hour, it's easy – just include your tracked billable communication in your monthly timesheet. If you charge a fixed project rate, work out how much communication is involved on average for different tasks, looking at past projects to produce an accurate final figure to cover these additional costs.
Clarity charges a flat 15% of your per-minute fee. This means if you set your rate at $200/hour ($3.33/minute), a 40-minute phone call will cost the client about $133. Clarity will take about $20 of that, leaving you with about $113. You can set your hourly consulting rate from $0 to $1,000/hour ($16.67/minute).
Deleting emails is a normal business practice. The fact that an employee or former employee deletes emails is a normal business activity, so it is unlikely that you will be successful in any law suit claiming damages as a result of the deletion.
Scott Aalsberg Esq. A: The lawyer should be responsive to your questions within 24-48 hours after you left a message. If the lawyer is not responsive, perhaps he or she is on vacation and unable to return.
This is how the practice of law is supposed to work. So often when a lawyer does not return your call for a few days it may simply mean your lawyer is busy getting some important work done in your case or in another client's case. There is nothing going on with your case.