May 11, 2011 – “What Paige is really attacking is an entire business model, the big-firm practice of hiring armies of associates and paying them $50 an hour while charging the clients $250 or more. The latest Baker & Hostetler bill lists some 300 associates billing at rates as high as $557 an hour and more than 60 paralegals and clerks billing at an average of $250 an hour.”