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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
It's always bullshit. 2500 presumes a person worked 6.85 hours a day without taking a vacation day for an entire year. Nobody's done that.
Trial is probably the best pure measure of what an actual "billable" hour is. You can't fuck around while you're in there. You have to think for 7 hours straight, every day (assuming lunch hour off). Even the time you;'re standing around waiting is time you have to think about other stuff coming up. The longest case I single chaired was five days. That involves, considering motions, meetings and prep before and after the hours you're in court about 10 pure, truly billable hours per day. If you do that for five days, you are jelly for at least two days afterward.
The human mind doesn't do 6.85 pure billable hours per day 365 days a year.
A 2500 hour year is filled with dead time the biller billed for anyway, or belongs to a lawyer who travels an incredible amount of time. You can't think that much. And if you are, your client doesn't deserve the service he's paying for because at that rate of use, your mind is giving him at best 70% effort, and you're likely to fuck a lot of things up.
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Seb, I love you like a presumably male internet pal I have never met, but you are high. I bill like muthafucker, 24/7. I billed 88 hours on my last 2 week vacation.
It's why I make the big bucks and am so bitter and hateful........
