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As a lawyer, I'll first say that it is always okay to haggle a little bit about the billing arrangement. I would expect an entrepreneur to want to negotiate.

Two, some of these practices described would raise eyebrows with state ethics committees. Double billing travel time, rounding up your billable hours, it all amounts to padding your bills. Lawyers have been disbarred for such practices, and this typically happens when people start wondering how they can be billed greater than 24 hours per day by the same attorney.

Lastly, if you are a start up, you have no business going to an attorney that is going to charge you $600.00 per hour. A rate that high should be reserved for some specialties, like perhaps patent litigation. If you are paying an attorney $600.00 to incorporate for you, you probably will not be in business for long.