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Julie Bays

Jun 8, 2026

1:37
Have a lot of thoughts, observations on using billing as a client communication tool.
1:42
Yes.
1:42
I just finished an article that will come out in our journal this next month, and I fully believe that billing should be a way that you communicate your value to your clients, because that is one way where they get to see exactly what work you did.
1:57
And since hourly billing, y- if it's hourly or whether it's flat rate, they need to a- actually see that it- the value is there.
2:04
But now with AI, I think things are changing, especially for practitioners out there in the real world, like Wendy.
2:42
And then when I am talking to someone in other ways, I still bill the traditional model.
2:47
And what's funny about this is we were just talking the other day, because I just finished this article for the Oklahoma Bar Journal, and in it I actually put invoices where it has an invoice where it's got some hourly and it's got some flat fees.
2:59
And for the documents, it was flat fee.

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