Billable Hours
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Biglaw, Billable Hours
The Sad Truth One Stat Reveals About The Legal Industry
The only good associate is a billing one. -
Billable Hours, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners
Figuring Out Your Small-Firm Billing Philosophy
In a small firm, you have to use your judgment as to what's billable and what's not. - Sponsored
How To Build And Manage Your Law Firm Rate Sheet
If you’re struggling with price setting — or, resetting prices — we’ve got the strategies to get you off the schneid. -
Biglaw, Billable Hours
Lawyers Work Too Damn Much
That all-nighter you pulled is, in the grand scheme of things, truly meaningless.work-
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Biglaw, Billable Hours, Secretaries / Administrative Assistants
Secretaries At This Firm Are About To Get Annoying (Or: A New Gimmick For Timely Time Entry)
Would you want this policy to be implemented at your law firm? -
Biglaw, Billable Hours
Stats Of The Week: FIFA Lawyers Up
Steep legal bills loom for FIFA, of course. -
Billable Hours, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners
Clients Do Not Pay You For Your Time
An incredibly important skill to possess as a lawyer is to remain grounded enough that you can look at issues from the perspective of the client. -
Biglaw, Billable Hours, In-House Counsel
When Partners Ask Associates Not To Record Time . . .
What's a poor associate to do? Thoughts from Biglaw partner turned in-house counsel Mark Herrmann. -
Biglaw, Billable Hours, Money, Rankings, Venable
Stat Of The Week: The Biglaw Billables Champion
Which Biglaw firm boasts a lawyer who billed 71 hours a week last year? - Sponsored
Law Firms Now Have A Choice In Their Document Comparison Software
Six months on since its launch, over 200 firms worldwide are now using Draftable Legal for accurate and reliable document comparison, including UK Top 50… -
Biglaw, Billable Hours, In-House Counsel
Beyond The Billable Hour: 6 Key Insights
What does the rise of alternative fee arrangements mean for both law firms and their clients? -
Biglaw, Billable Hours, Partner Issues, Small Law Firms
Beyond Biglaw: 5 Tips For Dealing With Billing Guidelines
You want to get paid, and for the client to think you are a great lawyer -- so follow this simple advice, from boutique-firm columnist Gaston Kroub. -
Billable Hours, Small Law Firms
What’s An Hour Worth?
Exactly how much money is one hour of your mind-time worth? You have to figure that out when you go from Biglaw to SmallLaw. -
Billable Hours, Technology
A Pictorial Walkthrough On How To Use Excel For Law Firm Billing
May your 2015 be full of many months where you need to add more rows to your time entries on your bills. -
Billable Hours, Holidays and Seasons
Managing Partner Sends Cheerful Holiday Reminder That Associates May Be Fired Tomorrow
This Thanksgiving, perhaps you should've been thankful that you had a job.
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Biglaw, Billable Hours, Boutique Law Firms, Duval & Stachenfeld, Midsize Firms / Regional Firms, Money, Real Estate, Small Law Firms
Reinventing The Law Business: In Defense Of The Billable Hour
Should the billable hour really be vilified as something that rewards inefficiency and incompetence, or is it a benchmark with which to judge performance, or is it both? -
Associate Advice, Biglaw, Billable Hours, Bonuses, Money
Which Biglaw Firm Just Got Rid Of Billable Hours?
What will replace the billable-hour requirement at this large law firm? -
Billable Hours, Food, Gambling / Gaming, Health Care / Medicine, Law Reviews, Law Schools, Legal Ethics, Non-Sequiturs, Supreme Court
Non-Sequiturs: 11.11.14
* Law students (and prospective law students)! Figure out your expected class rank with this handy calculator. [Witnesseth]
* Elie wonders if law students are getting dumber. [Redline]
* Great law review article, or greatest law review article? Judge M. Margaret McKeown’s “Culinary Ambiguity: A Canonical Approach To Deciphering Menus.” [Harvard Law Review]
* Remember the lawyer caught billing 29-hour days? The guy pleaded his case to the Ohio Supreme Court and they won’t give him the time of day. [Ohio Supreme Court]
* Veterans Day seems like the right time to remember the Feres Doctrine, which bars armed forces personnel from suing the government for negligence. How ridiculous is the Feres Doctrine? Justice Scalia thinks we need to allow more negligence suits! [Legal Funding Central]
* A sad story of a married partner romancing a married young associate that ends in her death. [Missouri Lawyers Weekly]
* If you support Obamacare, is there any reason for optimism in King v. Burwell? [Lawyers, Guns & Money]
* In case you were ever interested in eminent domain in a galaxy far, far away. [The Legal Geeks]
* Casino sends promotions to “compulsive gamblers” on a voluntary opt-out list. The casino calls it a “software issue.” What are the odds on that? [Ars Technica]
* A former Texas judge earned a reprimand for violating the state constitution and seven ethical canons in three years. Gauntlet thrown, judges aspiring to enter our pages. [Houston Chronicle]
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Advertising, Biglaw, Billable Hours, Job Searches, Lateral Moves, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Shameless Plugs, This Is an Ad
Biglaw's Pulse Beats Steadily, Gloom And Doom Notwithstanding
As the economy settles, so will Biglaw. -
Back to the Future, Biglaw, Billable Hours
Flashback Friday: Billable Hours In The 1990s
How hard did Biglaw associates work back in the day? -
Billable Hours, Cheapness, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners
Do You Build Invoices Or Relationships?
An egregious episode offers a lesson in client service. -
Billable Hours, Crime, Non-Sequiturs, Police, Racism, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners, Television, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Non-Sequiturs: 08.28.14
* Here’s the international sign for “don’t urinate in public.” Glad to know we needed a sign for this. [National Review] * An illegal hostile work environment is created when coworkers wear confederate flag T-shirts. Because… obviously it is. Professor Volokh thinks this is unconstitutional. Apparently a document drafted by white slaveholders is set up […]