I'm an IT consultant at a small IT company in Oregon. We have three technicians/consultants, one secretary, one office manager, and we lease a small office. We charge around $100 per hour. (And I worked at a similar company charging similar rates before this one, and I know of several other companies in the area that operate the same way).
Lawyers charge obscene amounts of money and they make obscene amounts of money. The United States is addicted to the legal system almost as much as it is to oil. On the playground as kids we used to settle disputes by name-calling, fighting, and telling on each other. Teachers and parents would eventually get fed up and tell us we need to "figure it out on our own." We never learned how -- so the "adult playground" way of solving disputes is to take someone to court. It's the adult version of name-calling and whining.
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I'm an IT consultant at a small IT company in Oregon. We have three technicians/consultants, one secretary, one office manager, and we lease a small office. We charge around $100 per hour. (And I worked at a similar company charging similar rates before this one, and I know of several other companies in the area that operate the same way). Lawyers charge obscene amounts of money and they make obscene amounts of money. The United States is addicted to the legal system almost as much as it is to oil. On the playground as kids we used to settle disputes by name-calling, fighting, and telling on each other. Teachers and parents would eventually get fed up and tell us we need to "figure it out on our own." We never learned how -- so the "adult playground" way of solving disputes is to take someone to court. It's the adult version of name-calling and whining.