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I have need of a software program, but I don't even know the right terminology to describe it for searching. I spend a lot of time out of town running projects on customer's sites. I have to keep track of hours, expenses, samples, etc. I would like a very simple to use program where I enter all this information each evening and it tracks and compiles it automatically. I've looked at some of the PM programs out there and they're about 1000x what I need. I could built something like this myself in Excel, but I would certainly think somebody...

Lawyers might be going off the clock Saturday, July 5, 2008 3:00 AM By Braden Lammers THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH With money tight, we all want to know exactly what we are paying for. That applies to professional services as well as grocery-store staples. As a result, there is a change brewing in the legal arena on the best way to charge clients. One Columbus law firm has abandoned the long-established standard, the billable hour. Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley moved to a fixed rate, or an alternative fee as it is called, in January. "Lawyers call it alternative billing because...