{"id":95,"date":"2017-10-05T15:23:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T22:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2020-02-08T13:28:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T21:28:42","slug":"something-is-missing-from-our-invoices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/something-is-missing-from-our-invoices\/","title":{"rendered":"Something is missing from our invoices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ember6030\" class=\"ember-view\">Eleven years ago when I first went into independent practice, I adopted a policy of not charging clients for routine postage or domestic long-distance tolls.\u00a0 I reserved the the right to charge for postage if I had to do a mass mailing or send dozens of letters by certified mail. I intended to draw a contrast between Alterman Law Office (as the firm was then named) and the myriad of law firms that charge for client parking (we don&#8217;t), that pass through parking charges for their lawyers (we don&#8217;t), that make clients pay for dinner for lawyers who worked late (we don&#8217;t), and that bill for copying (we don&#8217;t, except for really large copying jobs), postage (we don&#8217;t, except for mass mailings), and the other nickels and dimes that take up the last page of the typical invoice from a law firm. You won&#8217;t find those sorts of charges on our invoices.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ember6030\" class=\"ember-view\">We light-heartedly describe our policy as &#8220;The post office doesn&#8217;t charge you for lawyers. Why does your lawyer charge you for postage?&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven years ago when I first went into independent practice, I adopted a policy of not charging clients for routine postage or domestic long-distance tolls.\u00a0 I reserved the the right to charge for postage if I had to do a mass mailing or send dozens of letters by certified mail. I intended to draw a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alterman-law-group","category-the-business-of-law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}