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> The legal profession seems to have no problem charging by the hour This is not true. The "billable hour" in the legal profession is a huge source of headache
by speedplane 8y ago
> The legal profession seems to have no problem charging by the hour
This is not true. The "billable hour" in the legal profession is a huge source of headaches for individual lawyers and the legal profession at large. The incentive is to work more, rather than work smarter, which is often in the client's interest.
- hardwaresofton 8y agoI was certainly wrong in asserting that there were "no problems", but it is still the case that they predominantly charge by the hour. I agree that the incentive is to work smarter, not harder, as with most white-collar professions... Surely the fact that the legal profession uses (begrudgingly or not) hours as a proxy for work (whether or not they actually work X hours, or who at the firm works those X hours) means something. The legal profession seems similar enough to ours (as far as this issue is concerned at least) and has been around long enough that they should have adopted a better way of doing things by now.