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I assume lawyers have some mechanism like this already. Law firms can require staff to allocate every 6-8 minutes of their day. Which sounds terrible and likely
by 0cf8612b2e1e 2y ago
I assume lawyers have some mechanism like this already. Law firms can require staff to allocate every 6-8 minutes of their day. Which sounds terrible and likely to be wildly inaccurate as people cannot be bothered to invest that much overhead into their job.
- turblety 2y ago> likely to be wildly inaccurate My gut reaction and prejudiced against all lawyers is it's probably in the law firms interest that these are inaccurate.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y agoFor sure that seems the intention. Create an “audit trail” for billing while simultaneously making it so onerous that the employees have to fudge the numbers.
- hobs 2y agoIn my experience it just means a lawyer marks each hour via charging you 10 increments, and that in some cases some forms of comms are generally charged at a sub-hourly charge. In most cases working with a lawyer is a fixed fee or going to be on a retainer basis where the hours pile up regardless, not so much about tracking every moment for every person.
- joshvm 2y agoThis is how Swiss medical appointments are billed. I forget exactly how granular, but it's pretty small - 5-10 minutes. As a result, you tend to be quite efficient when going to the GP, because it’s a few Francs a minute If I retain a lawyer at $1k an hour, you bet I want 5 minute billing.
- mattkrause 2y agoSadly for you, I think 6 minute increments (i.e., 0.1 of an hour) might be more common.
- SoftTalker 2y agoIf your pay depends on it, you magically become very good at it. I hate time tracking and time sheets and all of that but at any job I had where I would not get paid without it, it got done.