Whether you are a solo or small firm lawyer, it is unrealistic to hide in your office and expect to toil
away on billable work.
Not exact matches
Just a few of their efforts and costs are: having attorneys and legal staff spend
billable time
on the non-
billable hiring process; your salary and benefits; payment to a legal recruiter (if you're using a headhunter); and the costs of training you (again, this takes considerable time
away from your bosses»
billable work).
In fact, some partners may actively discourage associates from spending time
on business development activities, if that takes any time
away from doing
billable legal
work.
Friction also develops if the management and administrative duties are not shared evenly, because time spent
on such duties takes
away from time available for
billable work or business generation.
It's easy to fall into a trap thinking the firm will save money by taking
on do - it - yourself projects (e.g. building your own website or doing all the accounting billing
work yourself, etc.) To the contrary, there are numerous studies that show these tasks take attorneys
away from their actual
billable work and end up costing the firm more money in the end.