追梦5. Which of the following is an appropriate title for this passage？ [B]
[答案] B. Sleep Experts Had Exciting Findings in a Fat Study
选择题
ALTERNATIVE LEGAL BILLING – WIN STRATEGIES
Hourly billing is the best way to be charged for legal services. About 95 percent of lawyersstill perform their legal work on an hourly basis. If you want something better than the oldbill by the hour deal, try presenting one of these billing structures.
PROJECT BILLING FOR ROUTINE ISSUES
If your legal needs include large but repetitive tasks, consider a flat-fee approach. Onceyou get a project billing estimate, don' t hesitate to shop around to compare prices and serviceswith other law firms. A firm may provide a better deal if it expects future work from yourcompany.
RESULTS-ORIENTED OPTIONS
Pay-according-to-success is one choice. It considers fees based on the outcome of the caseand the performance of your counsel. Contingency fees turn the matter into a shared risk orshared encouragement, making the law firm your business partner, not just representation.
MULTI-LAYERED TASKS
If you' re shopping for a firm for actual legal work involving a number of legal specialties,consider using blended hourly fees. The firm calculates in advance an average rate based onthe anticipated time each lawyer spends on the matter.This arrangement helps the client to avoid paying a senior partner' s hourly rate forresearch that should be conducted by a junior associate.
Legal Insurance
The contract fee allows the client to pick up the phone and talk to the lawyer withoutneeding to eye the clock. This approach works like a legal insurance policy. It encouragescompanies to contact their counsel on non-litigation, non-crisis matters, and to save moneyin the long run by engaging in more preventive legal action.
1. [B]is the best way to be charged for legal services.
[答案] B. Hourly billing
2. A flat-fee approach[A].
[答案] A. is suitable for repetitive tasks
3. [C]make the law firm share your risk and encouragement.
[答案] C. Contingency fees
4. Legal work involving a number of legal specialties should consider using[A].
[答案] A. blended hourly fees
5. You have to eye the clock when you talk to the lawyer when you choose[B].
[答案] B. the old bill by the hour deal
正误判断题
NEW YORK – The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty. Theywould state their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants saidSunday.
Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the menwould not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but would explain what happened and why theydid it.
Ali and four other men are accused of killing nearly 3, 000 people in the nation' s deadliest
terrorist attack. The U. S. Justice Department announced earlier this month that they will facea civilian federal trial just blocks from the World Trade Center site.
Ali is also known as Ammar al-Baluchi. He is a nephew of claimed 9/11 planner, Khalid SheikhMohammed.
Mohammed, Ali and the others will explain their assessment of American foreign policy,Fenstermaker said.
Their assessment is negative, he said.
Fenstermaker met with Ali last week at the U. S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. He hasnot spoken with the others. But he said the men have discussed the trial among themselves.
Fenstermaker was first quoted in The New York Times in Sunday' s editions.
Critics of Attorney General Eric Holder decided to try the men in a New York City civiliancourthouse. It has warned that the trial would provide the defendants with a propagandaplatform.
Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the Department of Justice, said Sunday that while the men mayattempt to use the trial to express their views, we believe the courts and the federal judgemay govern the trial. The course of justice will be led appropriately and with minimal break,as federal courts have done in the past.
1. The five men thought that the U. S. foreign policy should be blamed for the 911 attack. [答案 T]
2. Scott Fenstermaker is the lawyer for Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali and four other men. [答案 F]
3. Nearly 3, 000 people were killed in the 911 attack. [答案 T]
4. The press didn' t care about this civilian federal trial. [答案 F]
5. We can infer from the article that the prisoners also have their freedom to express theirown views in the U. S. A. [答案 T]
