At Zola Creative, we take all of the guesswork out of the site development process and make it easy for you to
focus on the billable work while we make sure there is plenty of it to fuel your practice.
And if you post answers to commonly asked questions (legal or otherwise) on your website, it will cut down the number of querying phone calls and emails you receive, freeing you up to
focus on your billable work.
Not only does it take the burden off of the attorney to be bogged down in time timely administrative work, but it also allows lawyers to
focus on billable work.
Not exact matches
And yet, the emphasis
on performance, both in terms of
billable hour targets and in the volume of
work required, obscures the learning
focus.
Capture Every
Billable Hour — Before you begin working on managing your time more efficiently and increasing your billable hours, you should first focus on collecting, documenting and invoicing the hours you're already ex
Billable Hour — Before you begin
working on managing your time more efficiently and increasing your
billable hours, you should first focus on collecting, documenting and invoicing the hours you're already ex
billable hours, you should first
focus on collecting, documenting and invoicing the hours you're already expending.
Diligen enables junior associates to
focus on higher
billable tasks without compromising the speed or quality of critical contract review
work.
Non-partners will often
focus their energies
on their client
work and
billable targets without volunteering much, if any, of their time to the development of the business.
Its strategic plan will
focus on how the firm can constantly grow its market share, how it can encourage more
billable work from associates and non-equity partners, and how it can attract lateral equity partners with attractive books of business, all in order to increase overall partner profit levels.
Meet my
billable hour requirements so that I can actually
focus on the
work I wanted to do.
I find that this makes me a better lawyer — it makes me less worried about generating as much
work as possible in the form of
billable hours, and more
focused on getting the
work done efficiently and effectively.
Our clients have definitely seen the benefit — instead junior lawyers that used to do this role can now
focus on more exciting,
billable work allowing their revenue to increase and our clients have actually seen a boost in morale.
The
billable hour still reigns supreme in the legal industry, but other options, such as charging flat fees for legal
work, can cut down
on the administrative
work needed to track
billables, so that you can
focus on practicing law.
[13] Chief Justice James Allsop of the Federal Court of Australia summarised the ethical issues which arise as a result of the conflict the
billable hours system creates between the economic pressure
on a firm to maximise its profit and the ethical pressure
on lawyers to
work in their client's best interest: «Only a very slight change of
focus needs to be made by a lawyer to change from (a) expecting a profitable return from running as well and efficiently as possible a large case in court, to (b) planning how to make as much money as possible from running the same large case in court.»
Unhappy with more traditional document management solutions
on the market, Kevin and I realized that such products would never truly be effective in a law firm because lawyers will always
focus on providing clients with quality counsel and securing and generating
billable work.
This group
focuses on in - firm self promotion and addresses how to get and keep the best
work, be the best lawyer you can be, meet skills benchmarks despite
billable hour pressures, build satisfying and politically advantageous in - firm relationships and earn client access by learning to treat the partner like a client and speaking the language of business.
They take individuals with great talent, energy and a desire to succeed, and crush their ambition by
focusing on billable hours, ignoring the quality of their
work experience, and failing to address the various factors that engender loyalty and peak performance.
Any solution that turns the
work processes of users — especially professionals like attorneys, who are inherently risk adverse, steeped in precedent and
focused on the
billable hour — upside down, is destined for failure.
It's very difficult to do in the legal world unless you
work for yourself — with the
focus on billable hours, not too many law firms are willing to let someone go part time and bill half the hours!
• Demonstrated ability to prepare and revise legal correspondence and memos •
Focused on handling highly confidential information with discretion and integrity • Committed to organizing and prioritizing cases according to their nature of urgency • Adept at handling research
work using legal references and Internet resources • Particularly effective in maintaining attorneys» schedules and handling appointments • Familiar with court rules and filing procedures and making service
on opposing parties • Proficient in using online services such as Westlaw and Lexis for legal research information • Documented success in generating revenue by documenting and inputting attorney's
billable time and reimbursable expenses • Strong organizational skills aimed at ensuring that clerical and administrative support is constantly available to attorneys • Qualified to dig out precedence information and assist in building up cases • Expert user of Power Point, Word and Excel to assist in creating presentations, handling correspondence needs and developing spreadsheets • Exceptional knowledge of using email applications to correspond with clients and ability to type 90 words per minute