From left, Basha Rubin of Priori Legal, Mike Haven of Meta and Ilona Logvinova of Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer. Photo: Greg Andrews/ALM Meta legal ops chief Mike Haven was unequivocal this week when the moderator of his CLOC Global Institute panel on law firm pricing posed the million-dollar question: In five years, will hourly billing be the exception? “I agree,” he told a packed room at the McCormick Place conference center in Chicago.