What are customary items for an hourly lawyer to bill?
<p>This question presumes the hourly billing method and the lawyer's perspective. To avoid broadness, I restrict this question to the UK (but please advise whether I should remove this).</p>

<p>I already know of the following:</p>

<ul>
<li>expenses incurred for a client's case (e.g.: fees for court, experts, and other lawyers; travelling)</li>
<li>meetings</li>
<li>reading, preparing, negotiating and working on notes and documents (e.g.: of meetings, of telephone calls and of proceedings)       </li>
<li>research;</li>
<li>composing and receiving correspondence (e.g.: letters, faxes, email, telephone calls)</li>
<li>attending court or other formal proceedings, including waiting time;</li>
</ul>

<p>Lawyers generally will bill clients for two broad categories:</p>

<ul>
<li>Professional fees (time spent working on a client's matter); and</li>
<li>Cost recovery (lodging forms, printing, faxing, photocopying, etc)</li>
</ul>

<p>Anything that falls within these two groups is fair game, including everything you've mentioned in your question.</p>

<p>I suspect it's not possible to devise a comprehensive list of items that may be billed, as it will depend largely on the matter being worked on.</p>

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