Indexed knows how it is

15Feb07

Jessica Hagy always makes me laugh, but this one made me sigh because it’s the basis and failing of all legal billing:
http://indexed.blogspot.com/2007/02/efficiency-cheap-apartment.html

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Paralysis

22Jan07

So it’s Monday and life doesn’t suck yet, but I have two things on my to-do list that I know is going to MAKE life suck, so I’m sitting here dawdling (and blogging) and not billing hours because I just can’t bear to dig into this and trigger a depressive episode.
On the plus side, my [...]

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Billing by the Hour

18Jan07

I HATE the billable hour.
The problems with the billable hour are manifold:
1) It rewards slow work and penalizes the efficient. If I can write a contract in two hours, and the guy across the hall takes four hours, HE gets a bonus at the end of the year. I get reprimanded for not billing enough [...]

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Pro Bono

15Jan07

I think the local pro bono coordinator is out to get me. We have a central clearinghouse for cases that LSC can’t take that get farmed out to lawyers willing to do pro-bono. The coordinator is a really nice woman, but I swear to God, I keep getting the most obnoxious cases. The ones that [...]

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