The hourly billing structure benefits only lawyers and people with deep pockets.

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The agencies' weaknesses are partly a result of their structure and billing.

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Beneath even the institutional structure (which is set up badly for clients) and the billing approach (which is even worse) is another level of perversion in the prevailing mindset of Big Law.

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