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Lawyer clocks 81-hour day

UPPER DARBY, Pennsylvania (AP) --A lawyer who made $421,327 representing a suburban school district in one year submitted a bill for an 81-hour day and three for 25-hour days, a newspaper review found.

Attorney Barry Van Rensler blamed innocent mistakes for the billing errors in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2002, and returned $19,361 to the Upper Darby School District last week.

"I love the school district, and I would never intentionally overcharge them," Van Rensler told The Philadelphia Inquirer, which reviewed his bills.

Upper Darby, just outside Philadelphia, spent $5,220 per student on instruction last year. It has more than 12,000 students.

Van Rensler, who charges $140 an hour, said the questionable billings were innocent mistakes involving misplaced decimals. In one case, he said he billed the district for 75 hours of work instead of 0.75 of an hour, for a 45-minute conference on a property-tax appeal. His bill was $10,500 instead of $105, according to the newspaper's review.

School officials said they hadn't noticed anything unusual about Van Rensler's invoices before the Inquirer's review. They said they do not believe the errors were intentional.

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