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Tax

Feb. 26, 2016

Ever-increasing legal fees are deductible, right?

How you feel about rising legal costs and lawyer hourly rates may depend on where you fit on the continuum, and whether you are a provider or consumer of legal services. By Robert W. Wood

Robert W. Wood

Managing Partner
Wood LLP

333 Sacramento St
San Francisco , California 94111-3601

Phone: (415) 834-0113

Fax: (415) 789-4540

Email: wood@WoodLLP.com

Univ of Chicago Law School

Wood is a tax lawyer at Wood LLP, and often advises lawyers and litigants about tax issues.

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By Robert W. Wood

Legal costs keep rising, and top lawyer hourly rates are soaring. How you feel about this may depend on where you fit on the continuum, and whether you are a provider or consumer of legal services. You might feel really conflicted if you are both!

It is unlikely that most of us will occupy the rarified atmosphere of the most expensive lawyers. Not long ago $1,000 seemed astoundingly high. Today, some legal fees have crosse...

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