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Mike Trotter of Kilpatrick Stockton predicts Atlanta’s senior partners could bill $2,000 an hour by 2037 if inflation remains constant. Since rates outpace inflation, they’ll likely hit it sooner. (Zachary D. Porter/Daily Report)
The hour’s future
By Carl Jones, Special to the Daily Report
Increasingly, partners at top-tier firms in larger cities sprint toward four-digit hourly rates, begging the question: When will Atlanta lawyers command $1,000 an hour? Where does it end?
Editor's Note:
Numbers galore! Yeah, we’re nerds
By Mary Smith Judd, Special Sections Editor
Call us geeks. Every year, we hope to make our annual Going Rate issue bigger and better than the year before. So imagine our thrill to discover we had amassed nearly 2,000 law firm billing rates for this issue. (By comparison, last year featured roughly 800 listings, and the year before, about 400.)
A note about the hourly rate index: The billing rates at the end of each row are the individual timekeeper's 2006 rates listed in fee requests of cases filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court and other federal courts. If the attorney charged different rates during the same year, only the highest rate is listed. See more about our methodology
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| BROWSE RATES | 1961 billing rates in the database |
| Atlanta rates: |
Alston & Bird
| Arnall Golden Gregory
| Greenberg Traurig
| Jones Day
| Kilpatrick Stockton
| King & Spalding
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McKenna Long & Aldridge
| Morris, Manning & Martin
| Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs
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Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker
| Powell Goldstein
| Troutman Sanders
| All Atlanta rates >>
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| Around Georgia: |
By City:
Albany
| Alpharetta
| Athens
| Augusta
| Macon
| Marietta
| Norcross
| Savannah
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| Across the United States: |
By City:
Boston
| Chicago
| Cleveland
| Dallas
| Detroit
| Jacksonville, FL
| Los Angeles
| Miami
| New Orleans
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New York
| Philadelphia
| Pittsburgh
| Richmond, VA
| San Francisco
| Washington
| Wilmington, DE
By Firm:
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
| Davis Polk & Wardwell
| Debevoise & Plimpton
| DLA Piper
| Dechert
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Hunton & Williams
| Jones Day
| Kirkland & Ellis
| Milban, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
| Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
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| International: |
Amsterdam
| Frankfurt
| London
| Shanghai
| Toronto
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About our methodology: The rates listed in this special section were garnered exclusively from federal court filings submitted to the courts between Jan 1 and Dec. 31, 2006 by firms seeking compensation for legal work. The majority of filings were made in federal bankruptcy court, although some were pulled from federal district court filings.
The spellings of names, use of initials, attorney titles, and home office locations were entered in accordance with biographical information available on firm websites, state bar websites, Martindale-Hubbard’s list of attorneys, or directly from the firms themselves.
Because firms adjust their rates at different times throughout the year, the listed hourly rate may not be current with the rates being charged by the date of publication. Likewise, some of the lawyers listed here may no longer be employed by the firm.
Some of the rates indicated may be a blended rate.
If court papers indicated a range of hourly rates for an attorney, the highest rate available was used.
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