Topic
Billable Hours
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Legal Skills Prof Blog
Why the Billable Hour Endures
Over at Belly of the Beast (April 24), veteran lawyer Steven J. Harper defends his criticism of the billable hour. Here are some excerpts:Last month, I wrote a New York Times op-ed…
Legal Profession Blog
Bonus Scheme Draws Suspension
An attorney who falsely claimed he had billed over 1,800 hours in two separate years in order to receive a bonus has been suspended for twelve months by the Wisconsin…
3 Geeks and a Law Blog
Logic and The Value of Time: Another Counterpoint
By Toby Brown
Image [cc] israelavilaMy good friend and blogging colleague Jordan Furlong suggested an intriguing idea while we were attending the ILTA Conference. We had started down a path on the sometimes taboo…
3 Geeks and a Law Blog
The Billable Hour Drives Efficiency. Who Knew?
By Toby Brown
Image [cc] Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com Recently Lexis released its findings from a new survey on Non-Billable Hours. Lexis had previously done a survey on Billable Hours and their curiosity lead them…
The Legal Whiteboard
Great Video on Importance of Intrinsic Motivation
One of the very best books I read in 2011 was Daniel Pink's Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. In a nutshell, Pink (who was trained as a…
Business of Law
BigLaw just can’t shake it’s reliance on hours!
By Patrick Lamb
I got a kick out of a post at Above The Law, Associate Bonus Watch: Dechert’s Bonus Is Contingent On Something That Sure Sounds Like Billable Hours. The unstated but…
Legal Skills Prof Blog
Average law firm billing rates show modest annual growth
From the National Law Journal:The 2011 Law Firm Billing Survey.It appears that modest annual billing rate increases are here to stay. For the third year in a row, law firms…
Business and Commercial
The Billable Hour, The Supreme Court and a Dog’s Tail
By Patrick Lamb
We now know who to blame for the billable hour. Or at least who to blame for its perpetuation. According to former Kirkland partner Steve Harper in The Belly…
Business of Law
Thoughts on “Risk Sharing”
By Patrick Lamb
Someone sent me this slide from a presentation by Hildebrandt, and it got me thinking about risk sharing. The conventional wisdom is that under the billable hour model,…
Cordell Parvin Blog
Bonuses for Hours: I Believe a Comment Makes My Point
On Monday I suggested that giving bonuses based on billable hours is counterproductive and is actually a de-motivator. You get what you reward. When you reward billable hours you get…