Do you believe in retainer fees for IP work? If so, read on

Do you believe in retainers
for IP legal work?

Neil Wilkof's post on the IPKat last week, "Retainer Fees and IP Practice: Questions, Questions Everywhere" (here), suffered the fate of many a fine piece of blogwriting that gets posted on a Friday -- it got lost in the lead-up to the weekend and was then submerged under other posts.

Since so many of the money-related issues in Neil's post speak directly to readers of this weblog, it seems a good idea to draw it to the attention of those IP Finance subscribers who either don't see the IPKat at all -- and, yes, there are many of them -- or who may simply have missed it in the rush to get out of the office for the weekend.

Readers' comments are particularly appreciated.  Unbelievably there's just one so far ...