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The vetters - campaign officials and lawyers who volunteer their billable hours for the networking and prestige - often have about a month to dig up every grain of dirt they can find.

Cunningham argued, since more defendants means a bigger and larger case that creates more billable time.

Defining “reasonable” will assuredly require more billable hours, but Libey made his opinion clear.

For example, the billable hourly-rate structure is going to have to change for some industries.

There are also other factors to consider such as billable hours, which may be lost if an attorney is sued for malpractice.