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Posted on 4/1/24 at 4:03 pm to
Posted by SlowFlowPro
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Posted on 4/1/24 at 4:03 pm to
This is not my area of expertise but I think a lot of firms actually bid less than that rate for insurance defense in exchange for guaranteed volume. I had to do some research for conflict council hourly rates a few months ago. It would not shock me if there are some insurance defense firms who are billing around $125 an hour in exchange for guaranteed volume.

That's 250k for 2k billable hours for an associate being paid 75-90k and a shared paralegal making probably 11/hour (billed around 25-30).

50-70k pure profit per associate. 2 associates per partner and that 100k-140k each just in associate profit. You should have more of a 1.5-4 associate per partner ratio.

*ETA: that's for the hourly-based, volume cases that won't get a ton of oversight (aka cutting). Insurance firms aren't paying huge hourly rates if they can help it. They'll just start one of those fake law firms that's really employees of the insurance company directly.

*ETA2: LA doesn't have real industry/business b/c our economy is shite, so "big law" is primarily insurance defense. That firm charging the insurance company $150/hour on a volume contract in Nola will charge a local business $450-500/hour, if they can get it.
This post was edited on 4/1/24 at 4:09 pm
Posted by vistajay
Member since Oct 2012
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Posted on 4/1/24 at 4:57 pm to
NOLA ins defense rates currently are more like $175-$225.
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