On the topic of lawyers, a good friend is a solo practice lawyer. She says the general rule as a solo lawyer is that you generally can’t bill more than 20 hours

On the topic of lawyers, a good friend is a solo practice lawyer. She says the general rule as a solo lawyer is that you generally can’t bill more than 20 hours of a 40hr week. The rest of the work time is marketing and business related. But that also means they need to charge enough to make those billable hours worth it. That said, there’s also currently a big push in her specialty to move to fixed billing to avoid many of the problems of billable hours.