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only 2000 hours?? |
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still a bit confused |
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12/29/2001 |
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you will get to find out when you get to your first billable hour.
you will find that 2/3 of your time will be billable, your time will also be cut for client bills. you may or may not be punished for this depending on the firm. litigation may be able to bill all time. transactional 2/3, i generally get 2/3 in.
i would argue that the average american worker would "bill" about 22-25 hours a week if faced with an equivalent law billing hours situation. remember clients are paying for your time.
my non-billable time has nothing to do with minesweeper, its usually client development or research, which seems like billable. |
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okay... I think a whole lot of people are uncertain about this whole billable hours thing. From your post perturbation it seems that you say research is not billable; that doesn't make sense to me. If you are researching relevant case law to a particular case you are working on, shouldn't that be billable. Also, my guess would be that ~80-90% of a lawyer's time is spent on more or less client related matters. Why does that translate to so few billable hours? So in general what's billable and what is not?
Thanks
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