Truth Behind Horror Stories in Big Law?

Demosthenes49
Sun, 14 Jul 2013 05:15:19 +0000

From what I’ve seen and what most of my friends have told me, efficient work is about 5 hours worked to 4 hours billed. So you’ll work 10 hours to bill your daily 8. Efficiency can go down due to unpredictability. For example, you may come into the office at 9 and just not have work to do until noon. That’s 3 hours tacked on to the ten or so you’ll need to get 8 billed. On the other hand, if you’re swamped you can easily bill much more efficiently. On a trial you could be billing just about every minute of your time.

What work you’re doing per hour depends an awful lot on what you’re working on. If you’re doing research you could easily do 8 hours of research in a day. Or you could do none because you’re writing motions and you already did the research you need.