Canadians are rebelling against the billeable hour with a number of law firms and compaanies using alternative fees. According to an article in the Financial Post, a recent Ontario Court of Appeal has added to the mix by issuing a ruling questioning the practice of hourly billing. 'There is something inherently troubling about a billing system that pits a lawyer’s financial interest against that of its client and that has built-in incentives for inefficiency,'  Madam Justice Sarah Pepall said in a ruling reviewing the size of a legal bill in the receivership of a Canadian cattle farm. The court confirmed the cutting of a bill to $157,500 from $328,000 a bill from Borden Ladner Gervais which the law firm had sent to PricewaterhouseCoopers for work done on a relatively simple matter that took two months to complete. The article cites law firms such as Conduit Law and Cognition Law as well as companies such food company George Weston Ltd, which has a policy in place that makes it mandatory to discuss alternative fee arrangements for any legal matter worth more than $5,000 in billings. Source: Financial Post