As noted throughout this blog, overbilling in the legal profession is common. This is partially because overworked lawyers are common. What happens when these two phenomenon collide? More hours billed in a day than are possible.
It appears some lawyers fool themselves into thinking that they actually work more than they exist. One ohio attorney billed over 24 hours on three separate occasions .
Yet another criminal defense lawyer from Florida played a similar gambit, billing over 24 hours on 41 separate days, although this one escaped punishment from his state bar for lack of probable cause .
These cases highlight two things: that lawyer overbilling can reach mathematically impossible levels and that overbilling is very difficult to prove.