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Monday, November 28, 2005
Law - "The Billable Hour: Are Its Days Numbered?"
"The Billable Hour: Are Its Days Numbered? Almost everyone agrees that the billable hour is the scourge of the legal profession. So why is it still around?" That is the headline to this article from The American Lawyer, posted via law.com this morning. It begins:
For about 50 years now the billable hour has been the dominant feature of the legal profession. And for just as long lawyers have been trying to kill it. A group of litigators who usually couldn't agree that the sky was blue without several footnotes qualifying the shade will gladly sing in harmony about the evils of the billable hour and its partner in crime, the daily time sheet. Yet generations of lawyers have accounted for their work lives in six-minute increments. Both reviled and ubiquitous, the billable hour is the cockroach of the legal world.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on November 28, 2005 06:39 AM
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