Billing
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Sponsored Content, TechnologyRaising The Bar For Cloud-Based Practice Management Software
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In-House Counsel, MoneyReceivables Don’t Count: Lawyers Don't Need To Be The 'Bank Of Client'
Law firms, regardless of size, should not have to be in the business of involuntarily extending credit to clients or financing accounts receivable. 
SponsoredTackling Deposition Anxiety: How AI Is Changing The Way Lawyers Do Depositions
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Billable Hours, TechnologyCosmoLex Now Integrates With Chrometa for Passive Time Tracking
This will help attorneys ensure that they are capturing and billing as much of their time as possible.
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Attorney Misconduct, Crime, Legal EthicsLawyer Sent Fake Bills To Company For 14 Years. Lesson: Check Yo Bills.
Attention, multinational corporations: when paying legal bills, make sure you know exactly what you're paying for. -
BiglawThe Most Offensive Way To Refer To Biglaw Bills
Overall, this is just a bad look for the firm. -
Biglaw, In-House Counsel2 Problems With Shadow Bills
Want something worse (or at least less reliable) than even regular legal bills? Shadow bills. -
Biglaw, Billable HoursThe Sad Truth One Stat Reveals About The Legal Industry
The only good associate is a billing one. -
Non-SequitursNon-Sequiturs: 03.10.16
* An in-depth look at Netflix’s most lovable lawyer, Foggy Nelson. [Netflix Life]
* Berkeley Law is not alone in dealing with scandals. Where is Olivia Pope when you need her? [Law and More]
* Wasting time, but churning bills, creating PDFs. [Daily Lawyer Tips]
* Environmental law will never be the same now that Justice Scalia’s dead. Mother Nature, for one, is grateful. [Huffington Post]
* Court rules there is no constitutional right to BDSM. [Slate]
* A battle over Texas’s voter ID law is coming back to the Fifth Circuit, just in time for the 2016 election. And if the Supreme Court stays split in its presumed 4-4 breakdown, the Fifth Circuit could get the final word on the law. [The Atlantic]
* A fascinating look inside the shady business of wrangling amicus briefs. [Chicago Tribune]
* Is Camille Paglia flirting with Donald Trump support? [Lawyers, Guns and Money]
* Corporate lawyers agree: leaving a vacancy on the Supreme Court is a terrible idea. [Wall Street Journal]
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Examining data privacy and data security concerns with the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) tools in the legal industry and how to find…-
Non-SequitursNon-Sequiturs: 02.22.2016
* Most lawyers have a relationship to the fictional Atticus Finch. [Guile is Good]
* Is Donald Trump’s popularity based, at least in part, on a critique of capitalism? Sure, he’s in favor of it, but that doesn’t mean he won’t exploit discontent with the system to get elected. [Lawyers, Guns and Money]
* Hey 1Ls! Wanna know why you aren’t getting laid? Blame it on Scalia. [20 Somethings]
* Burning question alert: When your work actually makes you sick, can you bill vomit time? [Daily Lawyer Tips]
* TSwift is putting her money where everyone else’s tweets are — the singer donated $250,000 to Kesha after her devastating court loss, but is it enough. [Huffington Post]
* Is the stalemate over who gets to appoint the next Supreme Court justice really about race? [Talking Points Memo]
* Anti-gay laws may finally hurt supporters in one place they care about — their pocketbooks. Why one business is relocating on the precipice of a new “religious liberty” law in Georgia. [Slate]
* Justice Scalia’s real legacy was pro-big business. [The Atlantic]
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Money, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners, Tax Law
Back In The Race: Should You Let Your Clients Pay You In 2016?
It can offer you tax benefits, but you need to consider your client's present and future circumstances. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 11.20.15
* Stingrays — no, not the kind that killed the Crocodile Hunter, but the kind that are used to determine cell phone locations and intercept messages — have been deemed by a judge as too powerful for law enforcement to use without safeguards. [Ars Technica]
* On the ethics of misrepresentations in negotiations. [Associate’s Mind]
* You shouldn’t have to feel bad about billing 2,000 hours — even if everyone around you is billing 2,500. [Bashful Buffalo Marketing]
* The latest buzz from the world of family law: judge rules a divorced couple’s frozen embryos should be destroyed. [LA Times]
* The controversy surrounding the new documentary The Hunting Ground about sexual assault on campus features an incident at Harvard Law School. [Slate]
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Boutique Law Firms, Partner Issues, Small Law Firms
Address Billing Concerns Immediately To Maintain Good Client Relationships
Whatever the reason for the problem, if you are not getting paid what you should and when you should, address your and your clients’ concerns right away. -
Money, Technology
Show Me Other People's Money, Fast
What are some of the tools available to attorneys for billing clients and getting paid? Technology columnist Sean Doherty investigates.
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Billable Hours, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners
Figuring Out Your Small-Firm Billing Philosophy
In a small firm, you have to use your judgment as to what's billable and what's not. -
Celebrities, Money
Beastie Boys Get The Gold Standard Of Legal Representation
If your law firm has to be compared to a car, a Cadillac Escalade isn't a bad way to go. -
Boutique Law Firms, Partner Issues, Small Law Firms
Always Be Selling -- Even When Billing
Use regularly submitted invoices as a way to impress and reassure clients and create an opportunity to address their concerns, columnist John Balestriere advises. -
Biglaw, Billable Hours, Partner Issues, Small Law Firms
Beyond Biglaw: 5 Tips For Dealing With Billing Guidelines
You want to get paid, and for the client to think you are a great lawyer -- so follow this simple advice, from boutique-firm columnist Gaston Kroub. -
Billable Hours, Technology
A Pictorial Walkthrough On How To Use Excel For Law Firm Billing
May your 2015 be full of many months where you need to add more rows to your time entries on your bills. -
Billable Hours, Holidays and Seasons
Managing Partner Sends Cheerful Holiday Reminder That Associates May Be Fired Tomorrow
This Thanksgiving, perhaps you should've been thankful that you had a job. -
Biglaw, Billable Hours, Boutique Law Firms, Duval & Stachenfeld, Midsize Firms / Regional Firms, Money, Real Estate, Small Law Firms
Reinventing The Law Business: In Defense Of The Billable Hour
Should the billable hour really be vilified as something that rewards inefficiency and incompetence, or is it a benchmark with which to judge performance, or is it both?
