How Many Hours Do You Bill For Valentine’s Day?
Lawyers are not known as a romantic profession, but we know they put in the work.
The Best Of Hours, The Worst Of Hours: ATL Survey Ratings
According to the ATL Insider Survey, which practice areas and law firms offer the best (and the worst) hours?
What Biglaw Can Learn From Personal Injury Firms
How a former insurance agent built a Houston injury practice around systems, empathy, and disciplined advocacy.
ATL Law Firm Ratings: D.C. Edition
A comparative look at the Biglaw firms of Washington, D.C., based on the ATL Insider Survey
ATL Law Firm Ratings: Magic Circle in NYC Edition
How do the Magic Circle firms stand up in the ATL Insider Survey?
When I Get That Feeling, I Want Sexual Billing
I didn't know you could bill for that.
Morning Docket: 12.21.11
* Most Americans can look forward to a tax increase in 2012 because our elected officials would rather bicker with each other than do their jobs. Happy freakin’ New Year! [Los Angeles Times] * Duncan Law’s dean sheds some light on why the ABA might have denied the school provisional accreditation. Come on, what’s not […]
How Checkbox’s ‘Legal Front Door’ Can Transform Your Workflow
Leveraging agentic AI to triage, prioritize, and automate the law department inbox.
The Hours: Results
Earlier this week, we ran an open thread how people are doing on their hours. We also had a survey asking people to tell us how many hours they are on track for. We received strong reader participation in the poll, but there was a flaw in the survey. According to commenters: elie. you need […]
In-House Counsel Don’t Intend to Give You Hours
It’s June 1st. Summer is upon us! Yay. So how are you doing for hours? As much as we talk about merit-based compensation and alternative fee arrangements — surprise — billable hours are still here and still very, very important. But if in-house attorneys have anything to say about it, your hours will be low […]