Hours

American Bar Association / ABA

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 […]

Biglaw

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 […]

Billable Hours

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 […]