Throwing the Book at Wayward Lawyers; Legal auditing firm Stuart Maue installed new databases and tools to help its clients red-flag counsel who might claim to work 36 hours a day - at Pebble Beach.

Stuart Maue has developed a reputation for being a thorn in the side of the legal profession. And for good reason.

Over the years, the St. Louis firm has helped corporations uncover some of the more, let's say, creative accounting methods used by their outside legal teams. Take, for example, the lawyers who bill clients for more than 24 hours' worth of work in a single day, or the firms that send four $150-an-hour lawyers to take a deposition when one would suffice.

Then there was the legal team defending a Texas golf course developer who thought the best way to truly understand the case was to fit in a few rounds of golf, on the client. It might not have been that bad …