Billable Hour
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TechnologyChatGPT Exec Says AI Will Replace $2000/Hr Paralegals... Who Wants To Tell Her?
Tell me you don't understand this industry without telling me you don't understand this industry. -
BiglawLaw Firm Partners Made BANK Last Year And There's Nothing Clients Can Do About It
Partners saw big increases in their rates last year. And got paid for them. 
SponsoredLuxury, Lies, And A $10 Million Embezzlement
In a scandal that rocked the business community, a former high-profile executive was sentenced to prison, plus five years of supervised release and restitution.-
Boutique Law FirmsOGC's Managing Partner On Why An Alternative Approach To The 'Broken' Billable Hour Is Needed
This firm's managing partner has the scoop on how law firms can offer a better billing model for corporate clients.
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TechnologyDoes AI Signal The End Of The Billable Hour?
One thing is for sure: as AI helps automate and make work more predictable, both law firms and clients will benefit. -
BiglawBilling Rates Go Up... And Inflation May No Longer Be To Blame
Lawyerly rate hikes could continue. -
BiglawPartner Has F'n Had It With You Entering All Your Time On The Last Day!
Fixing billing habits is a two-way street. -
BiglawThe Best Way To Improve Mental Health For Lawyers? Kill The Billable Hour!
The billable hour is hurting lawyers. It's time to find a new way. -
In-House CounselFor Clients, It's Important To Pay Bills On Time Too
Long pay cycles aren't just a problem for outside counsel. 
SponsoredThomson Reuters' Claims Explorer: A Powerful Tool For Legal Claim Identification
Claims Explorer equips attorneys with powerful functionality to mitigate the risk of missed claims and enhance their strategic decision-making processes.-
BiglawIn-House Counsel Make Increasingly Arcane Billing Demands And It's Costing Firms Money
The proliferation of outside counsel guidelines are hurting bottom lines. -
GovernmentWashington Post SHOCKED To Learn Lawyer Billed Clients For Lawyering
Framing Elizabeth Warren as a high-priced mercenary attorney is just plain dumb. -
Morning DocketMorning Docket: 12.03.18
* Young lawyers in Australia are fighting back against Biglaw hours expectations because these snowflakes don’t realize that chronic sleeplessness and callously sacrificing relationships with friends and loved ones builds character! [The Guardian]
* Comey has reached a deal with the lame duck House committee. He’ll still testify in a private hearing, but he’ll be given a transcript after the fact. Good plan, it’s not like he’s been screwed over by this committee before. [National Law Journal]
* Trial begins tomorrow to decide the limits to good faith Nazis dealings. [The Recorder]
* Authorities recommend indicting Benjamin Netanyahu. It’s like there’s a country out there where political leaders are held “accountable” when they break “the law” which just seems weird. [Associated Press via Huffington Post]
* The winners of the annual Data-Driven Lawyers Award. [Law360]
* People can’t give money to litigation financiers fast enough. [American Lawyer]
* Apparently Alan Dershowitz is still working for Jeffrey Epstein. [The Week]
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Morning DocketMorning Docket: 11.30.18
* Senator Tim Scott has effectively killed the district court nomination of Thomas Farr. At this point, the administration could just grab another name out of the hat of tons of nominally qualified North Carolina Republicans. But instead they’ll just wait until the next session and redo this whole thing with their newly expanded majority to own the libs. [Courthouse News Service]
* It looks like Trump may actually be zeroing in on a new AG. [CNN]
* The tech industry expects federal data privacy legislation next year. I don’t know if these people have noticed, but it’s unclear this upcoming legislature could pass a National Ice Cream Day resolution. [Corporate Counsel]
* Former FBI chief James Comey is moving to quash a lame duck House subpoena. Comey’s publicly declared that he’s happy to testify before the committee in a public hearing. But, as you might imagine, the House Republicans don’t want a public hearing where they won’t be able to spin what happens. [Reuters]
* While everyone’s predicted the death of the billable hour, it turns out that the antiquated billing mechanism has an unlikely defender: the clients. [Law360]
* The new tax law will completely screw up divorces. Add that to the overseas manufacturing incentives as something Trump probably didn’t realize when he dropped this dud of a law on the country. [Fox17]
* Firms could get slapped with malpractice over substance abuse or poor mental health. [New York Law Journal]
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Technologyalt.legal: Say 'Thanks Robots' As Ping Works To Automate The Billable Hour
Ping looks to take the hassle out of timekeeping.
Sponsored
Luxury, Lies, And A $10 Million Embezzlement
Curbing Client And Talent Loss With Productivity Tech
Law Firm Business Development Is More Than Relationship Building
Sponsored
Thomson Reuters' Claims Explorer: A Powerful Tool For Legal Claim Identification
Tackling Deposition Anxiety: How AI Is Changing The Way Lawyers Do Depositions
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Litigation Finance, Sponsored ContentHow Litigation Finance Can End The Partisan Practice Of Law
It's an important tool that firms can use to get opportunities to work on the other side of the 'v.' -
In-House CounselIn-House Counsel Sound Off: The Billable Hour Is 'Adversarial'
Not a good way to start a relationship. -
In-House CounselHow Consultants Recommend Cutting Legal Bills
In-house columnist Mark Herrmann identifies what looks like the wave of the future. -
TechnologyAppetite For Destruction?
Of everything happening in the legal industry today, what will have enduring and sustained influence decades from now? -
Non-SequitursNon-Sequiturs: 06.22.17
* Senate Republicans take another step forward on repealing the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare. [MedCity News]
* Shocker: President Donald Trump has no “tapes” of his conversations with James Comey. [Talking Points Memo]
* Our own Elie Mystal breaks down this morning’s Supreme Court decisions, in conversation with Brian Lehrer of WNYC. [WNYC]
* And if you want to read the SCOTUS rulings for yourself, Howard Bashman has links to all of them. [How Appealing]
* Professor Ilya Somin explains how zoning and other land use controls exacerbate the affordable housing crisis. [Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post]
* Professor Richard Re argues that Bivens isn’t dead — at least not yet. [PrawfsBlawg]
* A great profile of a great rainmaker: Bill Carmody of Susman Godfrey. [Lawdragon]
* A Thomson Reuters tool that takes torture out of timekeeping. [LawSites]
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Biglaw, General Counsel, In-House Counsel, Technology5 Ways In Which The Business Of Law Is NOT Changing Anytime Soon
Are we experiencing, or about to experience, a revolution in the world of legal services? Slow your roll.... -
Biglaw, In-House CounselKnowing As In-House Counsel When To Call In The Biglaw Guns
Dropping Biglaw into an in-house negotiation can be an invaluable card, but think carefully before you play it.
