Topic
Billable Hours
183 published works
Business and Commercial
More On The Death Of The Hourly Rate
By Patrick Lamb
Ten days ago, I posted a pithy note repeating a speaker's declaration that the billable hour was dead. Never in my wildest dreams did I expect that post to generate…
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Flash Announcement: The Billable Hour Is Dead
By Patrick Lamb
Just thought you would want to know. At the Law Firm Leaders Conference in San Francisco, Dan DiPietro of Citibank declared "the billable hour is dead." He went on to…
Legal Ease Blog
Why Do Lawyers Leave the Law?
Yesterday's New York Lawyer contained an interesting article entitled, "Why Women Leave the Law." The article profiles six women who decided to leave the practice of law and pursue other…
Legal Ease Blog
More on Associates’ Salaries
Earlier this month, I wrote about the increase in associates' salaries and discussed whether associates would prefer higher salaries or lower billable hours in my post, Associates Would Give Up…
Legal Ease Blog
Associates Would Give Up High Salaries for Lower Billable Hour Requirements
By Allison Johs
84.2 percent of attorneys that participated in an informal study conducted by the ABA Journal in November 2006 would be willing to earn less money in exchange for lower billable…
Legal Ease Blog
Associates Would Give Up High Salaries for Lower Billable Hour Requirements
84.2 percent of attorneys that participated in an informal study conducted by the ABA Journal in November 2006 would be willing to earn less money in exchange for lower billable…
Legal Ease Blog
Pressure to Bill Leads to Questionable Billing Practices
By Allison Johs
Actually, this isn't really news to me. But a recent Chicago Tribune article about bill padding quotes Texas Tech University law professor, Susan Saab Fortney, as saying, "I think there…
The Trademark Blog
3200 Billables A Year?
Yeah, I got out the calculator when I read that too. Note what the in-house folk have to say.
Legal Marketing Blog
Does Your Compensation System Reward Hoarding Work?
By Tom Kane
When compensation is primarily (or solely) based on a lawyer’s billable hours, there is the natural tendency to hoard work by partners to the detriment of associates’ hours – and…
Business of Law
Associates Required To Bill 8,760 Hours Per Year
By Patrick Lamb
And 8,784 in leap years. (If my math isn't clear, its 24 hours per day, 365 days per year, plus another day every four years.) After reading Gerry Riskin's post…