Sentences with phrase «rather than billable hours»

Rather than billable hours, the focus of in - house counsel is to effectively service the corporation's legal needs in a manner that least infringes on the bottom line.

She cared about my situation rather than billable hours, in fact I know that she incurred more hours than she billed me for.

According to the Billable Hour Index, the majority of immigration and criminal lawyers charge based on flat fees rather than billable hours.

Not exact matches

Michael Steele chose to side with pricey Albany political consultants — who succeed only in expending billable hours, not winning elections — rather than the elected leadership of the state party, so I can't imagine Steele was expecting any support from the the state powers that be.

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.»

They may provide simple drafting, proofreading or administrative tasks, but ultimately success is measured in billable hours, rather than in improving and properly training junior lawyers, hence enabling better work to be done at lower rates.

We see this mentality frequently displayed in law firm partners who prefer to record 1,800, 1,900 or more billable hours each year, in order to earn fees now, rather than devote some of that time to business development, client relations, and the professional development of others in the firm — all of which have been demonstrated to produce much greater financial returns long - term.

Fifty years from now, perhaps the billable hour will be the exception rather than the rule.

A startup needing a lawyer to assist it in a specific acquisition or other event might want to retain the unbundled services on a project basis, rather than retaining the traditional firm on the billable hour model for full - representation.

Rather than doing away from the billable hour completely, attorneys should consider using fixed - fees where possible, even during full - representation, and then cutting their minimum - increment to 3 - minutes on their remaining billable hours.

The commenters at WSJ Law Blog identify the usual suspects: pressure to meet billable hour quotas, stress caused by constant dealings with nasty judges and rude adversaries, inability to cut the golden handcuffs that bind lawyers to high - paying positions, worries about an over-saturated job market and burgeoning student loans and pangs of conscience at defending objectionable clients or having entered the legal profession for security rather than having followed one's heart instead.

But the litigation market, rather than being the driver of many different business models, was driven by, was both the creation and captive of a single business model: the «billable hour»

Those providers operate from corporate structures that: (1) offer (residual) equity to key stakeholders; (2) reward output — advancing the business — rather than input — billable hours and origination; and (3) embrace legal delivery by combining the «practice of law» with technology and process - the business of law.

But law firms also realized that they could earn more money by billing more hours — and thus, began increasing billable hour requirements and finding ways to encourage redundancy rather than efficiency.

Also, applying a strictly objective formula compensation system, partners may be inclined to hoard work (so they may increase their number of billable hours and revenue from personal production) rather than delegating work to others who are competent to perform this work and receive the benefits of leveraging work.

Law firms whose economic model is based on maximizing billable hours rather than efficiency, who limit (or shrink) the number of partners in order to maximize profits per partner, and who equate «face time» with commitment and loyalty, scoff at younger lawyers as being naïve and unrealistic.

We want to focus on delivering results rather than chasing billable hour targets.

Rather than encourage efficiency and effectiveness, billable hour quotas encourage inefficiency and conflict.

And too much of the process is focused on billable hours and compensation, rather than on other things employees care about learning, growth and opportunities for advancement.

(a) sounds like automating «old law» of billable hours rather than working towards a Susskindian «new law» model of practice.

On My Shingle, she agrees with David Giacalone that law associates must take responsibility for their quality of life, rather than succumb to the tyranny of the billable hour.

Otherwise, those lawyers with initiative or desire to learn, or understand that effective use of technology helps rather than hinders their ability to hit billable hour targets, seek out additional training.

Consequently, a lower standard of lawyering has been created, where rather than focusing on solving the original problem, lawyers instead create more problems and rack up billable hours doing so.