{"id":142765,"date":"2026-01-27T17:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T01:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/27\/meet-the-elite-biglaw-partners-who-bill-4000-per-hour\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T01:00:33","slug":"meet-the-elite-biglaw-partners-who-bill-4000-per-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/27\/meet-the-elite-biglaw-partners-who-bill-4000-per-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Elite Biglaw Partners Who Bill $4,000 Per Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

If there\u2019s someone out there who bills at a higher rate than Bill and me on hourly cases, please let us know so we may raise our rates.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Neal Manne<\/a>, former managing partner at Susman Godfrey, in comments given to Reuters<\/a>, concerning his and partner Bill Carmody\u2019s<\/a> hourly rates. \u201cThe process by which Bill\u2019s and my billing rates are set each year is as mysterious as a papal conclave,\u201d Manne said, noting that while their hourly rates are set by firm management, most of their work is completed on a contingency or fixed-fee basis. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Meet The Elite Biglaw Partners Who Bill $4,000 Per Hour<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

If there\u2019s someone out there who bills at a higher rate than Bill and me on hourly cases, please let us know so we may raise our rates.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Neal Manne<\/a>, former managing partner at Susman Godfrey, in comments given to Reuters<\/a>, concerning his and partner Bill Carmody\u2019s<\/a> hourly rates. \u201cThe process by which Bill\u2019s and my billing rates are set each year is as mysterious as a papal conclave,\u201d Manne said, noting that while their hourly rates are set by firm management, most of their work is completed on a contingency or fixed-fee basis. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Meet The Elite Biglaw Partners Who Bill $4,000 Per Hour<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. If there\u2019s someone out there who bills at a higher rate than Bill and me on hourly cases, please let us know so we may raise our rates. \u2014\u00a0Neal Manne, former managing partner at Susman Godfrey, in comments given to Reuters, concerning his and partner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142766,"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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Staci-Zaretsky-ojqO15.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142765","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=142765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}