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<p><a href="http://www.businesshalacha.com/en/article/double-billing">http://www.businesshalacha.com/en/article/double-billing</a></p>
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<p>For most regular people, charging clients a few hundred dollars an hour makes for a very comfortable livelihood. Yet, human nature is such that regardless of the amount a person earns, he is always looking to increase his income. For a business owner, there
are numerous approaches he can take, from raising his prices to increasing sales volume to branching out into different product lines. For a professional whose income is solely based on billable hours however, there are only two ways to increase his income.
He can either raise his hourly rate, or increase his billable hours. Raising rates is often difficult, as there are pretty standard rates for a professional of a given level of experience and competence. That leaves increasing billable hours. When a professional
is first building his practice, that is very doable. However, a successful attorney will soon reach a plateau- he is physically capable of working only so many hours per day. At that point, it would appear that the attorney’s income should stagnate.</p>
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<p>There are however, a number of creative methods to increase billable hours without actually working more. However, these approaches raise ethical, legal, and halachic questions, which are the focus of this article.</p>
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<p>See the above URL for much more. YL<br>
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