Yesterday, the WSJ’s Marketplace covered a new trend of top lawyers charging an hourly rate in the four figure range.

I thought it would be interesting to see if the Avvo Rating was correlated to the billable rate of more than $16.50 a minute these high priced attorneys charge:
Kevin Arquit Avvo Rating: 9.0-Superb
Barry Ostrager Avvo Rating: 8.6-Excellent
Richard Beattie Avvo Rating: 9.1-Superb
Stephen Susman Avvo Rating: 10.0-Superb
Benjamin Civiletti Avvo Rating: 9.2-Superb
Brad Scheler Avvo Rating: 8.8 Excellent

Peter Lattman, at the WSJ Law Blog also covers it, which includes a very interesting comment from a Lawyer from Denver: “client’s are wooed too much by the marketing and allure of these high priced lawyers - there are plenty of other lower priced lawyers who can do just as good of job. It just takes some time and digging to find them.” Here at Avvo, we’re trying to make that digging easier.

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 at 9:31 am by Conrad Saam, Sr. Marketing Manager and is filed under How to Choose a Lawyer, Lawyers in the News, Marketing for Lawyers. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.