{"id":142699,"date":"2026-01-26T14:16:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/26\/raising-billing-rates-to-drive-profitability-is-a-dead-end-for-law-firms\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T14:16:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:16:38","slug":"raising-billing-rates-to-drive-profitability-is-a-dead-end-for-law-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/26\/raising-billing-rates-to-drive-profitability-is-a-dead-end-for-law-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising Billing Rates to Drive Profitability Is a Dead End for Law Firms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Law firms have enjoyed elevated financial success in recent times, but experts say fundamental changes to the legal industry will likely force firms’ hands when it comes to adopting newer, more innovative billing models.<\/p>\n

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Law firms have enjoyed elevated financial success in recent times, but experts say fundamental changes to the legal industry will likely force firms’ hands when it comes to adopting newer, more innovative billing models.<\/p>\n

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Law firms have enjoyed elevated financial success in recent times, but experts say fundamental changes to the legal industry will likely force firms’ hands when it comes to adopting newer, more innovative billing models. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Law firms have enjoyed elevated financial success in recent times, but experts say fundamental changes to the legal industry will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/legal-news-B51AaC.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}