Sentences with phrase «on billable work»

A typical success strategy that frequently expires sometime after your first few years of call is the «head down and focus on billable work» strategy.

Lawyers need to find new clients more efficiently so that they can spend less time on business development and more time on billable work.

Of those 2.2 hours spent on billable work, only 1.8 is actually billed to a client — nearly 20 % is written off before the bills are assembled.

A key finding of that was that the average lawyer was spending only two hours of an eight - hour day on billable work.

Associates are expensive, plus you have to worry about keeping them busy on billable work.

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.

This certainly holds true for the legal profession — as mentioned above, the Legal Trends Report found that lawyers only spend 28 percent of an estimated eight - hour workday on billable work.

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.

They didn't waste time socializing and kept out of the way, focusing on their billable work.

With InvoicePrep on your team, billing partners spend less time on pre-billing and more time on billable work — up to 75 % more!

Associates are expensive, you can't always keep them busy on billable work, and they usually lack subject matter expertise, thereby putting you at a marketing disadvantage.

If you're finding that you're spending more time on administrative tasks than on billable work (as, according to the 2017 Legal Trends Report, many lawyers are), it may be time to hire a paralegal or legal assistant, or to use technology to make some of your administrative tasks more efficient.

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.

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.

The recently released Legal Trends Report analyzed work habits of over 40,000 lawyers and found that they spend only 2.2 hours of their time on billable work — that's a paltry 28 percent of a modest eight - hour workday, and even less if you're working more.

In the mornings I focus on billable work.