by Laura Conaway

Rachel writes from KQED land:

As of a year ago, it was extremely rare for a contract attorney/document review job (particularly for large firms) to pay anything below $40/hour. That rate was standard across doc review agencies and felt extremely stable.

Now, the majority of the doc review job announcements for contract attorneys specify that the pay will be only $35/hour. Whether that reflects that firms are not willing to pay the agencies as much, or that firm clients are not willing to pay the firms as much, or that agencies are just trying to keep more of what the firms pay, I don't know. But it really stinks.