The attorney with the most billable hours should have to wear a dunce cap and be paraded around the village square
The attorney with the most billable hours should have to wear a dunce cap and be paraded around the village square
Consistency billing 380 hours in a month should raise alarms with management, not prompt a high five and a fucking article
@ItsMattsLaw If you’re not billing the absolute minimum you can get away with then you’re not doing big law right.
@ItsMattsLaw I could maybe believe this circa 1999 for a capital markets associate billing for sleeping and drinking Caymus at the printer in between turns of an S-1, but today? There's no way
@ItsMattsLaw Lol. If I billed that many hours, and collected 90% of revenue (a big firm standard) I would have made 2 million last year. I'm guessing he didn't make 2 million. But, he or she made somebody an extra 1.7 million.
@ItsMattsLaw Let us take this opportunity to remind ourselves that when billable hours were being adopted en masse in the 1950s, the ABA said the most a lawyer could ethically bill was 1300 per year.
@ItsMattsLaw 10.2 hours every single day of the year. I call BS.
@ItsMattsLaw I actually found a pic of the very good boy who billed all those hours: