Sentences with phrase «for billable»

If we (real estate agents) were as smart as accountants or doctors or lawyers we wouldn't be working on a commission based model, we would be charging fees for every billable hour.

Developed training material using PowerPoint and UPK simulations for Billable Orders and TRIAD custom enhancements.

the sharp rise in annual quotas for billable hours from 1,800 hours / year when Turow entered private practice to targets as high as 2,200 billable hours per year (Turow wonders how a young lawyer working 2,200 hours a year can possibly find the time to pursue professional experiences that nourish a lawyer's soul);

In 2009, the average total number of hours worked stood at 2,032, compared with 2,066 in 2007; the respective figures for billable hours were 2,032 and 2,066.

It is much more competitive in the legal profession now and some even say the end has come for the billable hour!

Lawyers can even set custom rates for billable hours being logged by co-counsel.

Once the task is complete, stop the timer and generate an invoice for that billable time.

What I do look for from a website is whether I get the feeling that a particular attorney is willing to roll up his or her shirt sleeves and work on my file without vying for the billable hours of the year award.

Like a swift, strong current at sea, various time pressures can sweep our minds far out into the future — a future filled with anxiety about how we can meet our quota for billable hours, get a favorable result for our client in court, or finally close a deal after months of negotiation.

At the same time, many law firms recognize that the decline in demand for billable work is probably permanent, and that they can no longer sustain large rosters of full - time lawyers to be leveraged.

Examples include: discounting fees, giving time away, not capturing or accounting for billable hours, and procrastination.

I left the magical Island proud of a job well done Until we meet again for another billable hour, Nantucket, I say farewell!

How you track and account for billable hours directly impacts your firm's profitability.

2009 November «The Bell is Tolling for the Billable Hour: «Change is Here to Stay»» by Amy Miller (Corporate Counsel) >> READ ARTICLE (subscription required)

Our firm runs on systems that reward leadership, working together, and growing long - term client relationships — not battling for billable hours or the corner office.

Martyn Prowel has paved the way for many other legal firms facing the same challenges, and believes using the speech recognition software in this way will continue to improve productivity and create more time for billable work across the company.

Understand that for each billable hour, the amount actually collected is determined by how much actually got put on the bill and how much actually got collected.

The ethical justification for the billable hour seems to be intrinsically tied to the rules or standards in the legal profession (originally set by the profession itself).

For those lawyers willing to embrace current technology and take advantage of lowered costs by saving their valuable time for billable duties and less administrative tasks, there is a thriving industry of legal assistants and paralegals right here in Canada.

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We can propose improvements to free partner non-billable time for billable work, enable junior lawyers to take on more senior work (greater leverage), improve lawyer efficiency to reduce soft write - offs and hard write - downs and improve efficiency of fixed - fee matters.

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.

And surprisingly, Italian lawyers don't top the chart for billable hours.

Toby, likewise, will tell you that corporate clients are forever asking for alternative pricing and then opt for the billable hour with a discount.

We now know who to blame for the billable hour.

Others include the five - year downturn in the legal market, which has led associates starved for billable hours to take on assignments that they previously would have pushed down to paralegals.

The first - years, starved for billable work, competed against each other in a case staffing system that required a «game show fast - buzzer style» response.

In an interview with The Windsor Star, James Cooke, the local lawyer who represented Diemer, said the appeal court's decision could spell the beginning of the end for the billable hour.

For every billable event there is a corresponding ICD10 code.

Those against raised the specter of abuse (there are several questionable agents in Writer Beware's files who soak their clients for billable hours while doing little or nothing to place manuscripts with reputable publishers), the loss of agents» entrepreneurial edge if they got paid no matter what (the fact that the agent profits only when the writer does is at the heart of the traditional author - agent relationship); and, of course, the possibility that only wealthy writers could afford to have agents.

Keep that in mind when they're pushing you for the billable hours sheet.

You get to pay for those billable hours.

Not exact matches

This was the total of her billable hours for an entire year when she worked as a lawyer.

But, as businesses grow, and the stakes get higher, businesses typically drop software for actual counsel (and curse incessantly over the concomitant billable hours).

Now, you may not have a situation that lends itself to clear - cut billable hours as I do, so how can this strategy work for you?

On the plus side, he generated billable hours for his fellow lawyers, who crafted CYA tweets for Trump this morning.

It's very new ground, so if I build an app and a wearable device that if I use, I'll monitor my diet better and, therefore, I'll reduce my carbohydrate intake and diabetes will improve, getting our insurance carriers to accept paying for that app or service as a billable thing is non-trivial.

Tell me how someone who is claiming per diems for being in Albany is also at their law firm working billable hours to justify a salary of $ 75,000 to $ 250,000 annually?

Not only will they see less income due to the low cap on rent increases, but the billable assessed value for Class 2 buildings, which includes rental buildings, is up 6.84 percent, according to Capital New York.

He was an Afro - wearing, radical, Harvard - trained lawyer for whom causes and people were more important than billable hours and prestige.

In the world of Microsoft, software has traditionally turned personal computers into an extension of an office environment, where they are used for such utilitarian tasks as crunching numbers, tracking billable hours, and sending memos.

As the editors write in this month's Scientific American, the ruling failed to define what «unreasonable» discrimination of Internet content is, leaving too much up for debate — «the only certainty it gives is of the tens of thousands of billable hours to be spent arguing over the meaning of «unreasonable» in federal court.»

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But since 1) that's a sum total of two people, 2) the last few years have just been weird for bonuses and billable requirements anyway, and 3) it seems like it's a touchy / taboo subject.

For large eLearning projects where quality must be built in at every stage, it is a folly to «squeeze» freelance income to just a product of billable hours and the rate per hour.

Add in the control required for loss prevention and the easiest solution is to separate out authors whose books are not billable through the main book vendor.

After four years of practicing law full time, she stepped out and wrote the best - selling novel, The Last Billable Hour, which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel.

The big appeal for him, apart from «getting away from the daily work pressure» was the chance to think, learn, and have deeper conversations, rather than «worry about booking billable hours.»

Re «what they get paid for», wouldn't going through the lawyers just rack up more billable hours?

We won't even approach how much in divorce attorneys each spouse will save because they are not spending countless billable hours fighting over who is responsible for each debt.