| sebastian_dangerfield |
02-08-2015 04:57 PM |
Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
(Post 494092)
Honestly, this is one thing I never understood. I do understand that "billing" or logging time when you are in-house would be incredibly annoying. ("Talk to colleague at the next urinal -- .2"). But at a law firm, meh. It's just no big deal, to me.
There are many, many things about this job that stress me out. Writing stuff down on a green sheet, which results pretty directly in me getting money, isn't one of them.
Sidd ("Dick around on the interwebs -- .2") Finch
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Of the myriad grievances I had with the nature of the legal business model, keeping time was a top three annoyance. It's all about being constantly disciplined and conscientious, which is seriously fucking boring. The work itself is detailed enough. Who the fuck wants to try to rewind several hours of phone calls and emails from several people, and paper creation, to submit a pre-bill? Particularly when most of the work is done in furious bursts so one can get back to reading stuff like... this board. Hmmm... How much time would such a motion cost if like a good, slow, methodical worker bee drafted it?
Alternatively, like one guy I knew who did his all of bills three days before the end of the month - recreating his time from docs created and phone logs - it's "Brian Williams" billing.
Life's mundane enough. No one needs the added insult of keeping a log of all the mostly pointless and inconsequential things on which he's dicked away half his waking hours. |
