You know, well that’s a broad question. It obviously depends on the facts, depends on how much trouble you’re in and it depends on how much work we’re going to do. So the answer to that is I can’t tell you off the bat but what I will tell you is my hourly billing rate is $525 an hour, our junior paralegal bill is at $150 an hour and then the rest of our attorneys and staff are somewhere in between. For most multi-state taxation issues the important part is strategy. So a lot of clients come to us and we’ll do a consultation we do a paid consultation. We’ll sit down for 60 or 90 minutes and we’ll develop a strategy and then in some cases, that client can just go off and execute that strategy and they don’t need us any further. Some clients after that strategy session, after we’ve built the plan, want us to stay and help execute the plan for one reason or another. So in those situations we usually bifurcate the work between our senior attorneys which are anywhere between $350 and $525 an hour and then our paralegals which are anywhere between $150 and $225 an hour. From a cost perspective the most important thing that I like to stress is efficiency. So I certainly don’t want to bill anybody any more than I have to. I don’t want to bill them any less than what it takes to get the job done but I’m a small business owner myself and trust me, I understand cost. One of the benefits of the way that I look at cost is I’m approaching this from a small business perspective. I want to make sure clients are getting value for the services that we’re providing. I want to make sure that
I Have a Multistate Tax Issue. Should I Represent Myself or Have Somebody Else Represent Me?
It depends it depends on what the situation is that depends on the cast of characters on your team.
