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Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:45 PM Author: aromatic roommate i turned off my timer if I was just chatting with coworkers, browsing the internet for personal stuff, using the restroom.
also, if I accidentally left my timer running when I wasn't working, I subtracted the excess time based on my rough estimate.
under this system, the most i ever billed in a month was 230, and that was absolutely hellish. |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 8:41 AM Author: Milky wonderful jewess cumskin Look at this fucking nerd using a timer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48955796) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 11:17 AM Author: nudist vibrant depressive ratface 230 with no fluff is fucking insane. I routinely billed 200 a month but actually workd like a hundred or so (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48956128) |
Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:48 PM Author: Bipolar legal warrant lol @ any "man" even using a timer, let alone turning it off. are u a fempoaster? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48953677) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:10 PM Author: marvelous navy church building son of senegal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48953775) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:49 PM Author: Transparent balding space (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48953683) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:51 PM Author: Pea-brained razzle personal credit line locus When I was above 200 my bills were most honest. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48953693) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:52 PM Author: cobalt adventurous organic girlfriend home (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48953696) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:53 PM Author: learning disabled opaque market I bill only for time where I'm 100% engaged, doing my best and adding value (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48953697) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:57 PM Author: Pea-brained razzle personal credit line locus Partner: Please see me (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48953711) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:58 PM Author: cobalt adventurous organic girlfriend home (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48953719) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:01 PM Author: learning disabled opaque market I am the partner. That's what's so insane about this. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48953730) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:10 PM Author: marvelous navy church building son of senegal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48953776) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 11:32 AM Author: arousing sooty site halford (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48956167) |
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Date: June 23rd, 2025 1:24 AM Author: Chest-beating trip macaca (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#49041751) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:55 PM Author: red pontificating gas station the internal moral stress of retaining honesty is a large reason why I left biglaw (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48953704) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 11:18 AM Author: nudist vibrant depressive ratface why bother retaining honesty? the whole thing is fraud (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48956129) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:00 PM Author: clear lascivious kitty On average probably padded 15 %. Consider it your “tip” for your services. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48953725) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:11 PM Author: marvelous navy church building son of senegal 18% is now normal and many biglaw firms are suggesting 20% or even 22% (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48953779) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:18 PM Author: clear lascivious kitty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48953815) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:19 PM Author: Vigorous snowy blood rage french chef (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48953820) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 6:26 AM Author: Pea-brained razzle personal credit line locus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48955678) |
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Date: June 23rd, 2025 1:24 AM Author: Chest-beating trip macaca (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#49041752) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:12 PM Author: Pea-brained razzle personal credit line locus My favorite story is still that Sidley associate who wrote an essay admitting to billing fraud and Sidley was like, “we checked and everything looked good to us. Here’s a ten percent rebate.” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48953784) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:13 PM Author: Bipolar legal warrant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48953787) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:23 PM Author: Alcoholic Pearl Ticket Booth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48953844) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:17 PM Author: Alcoholic Pearl Ticket Booth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48953813) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:19 PM Author: Razzmatazz new version striped hyena (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48953819) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:21 PM Author: marvelous navy church building son of senegal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48953828) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 2:51 PM Author: aromatic roommate what happens when the truth comes out later? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48954139) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 2:54 PM Author: Alcoholic Pearl Ticket Booth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48954150) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 9:29 AM Author: dull fighting gay wizard people who make it see the truth immediately, xo autistd and women struggle (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48955867) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 4:50 PM Author: Curious Carnelian Public Bath I’m more of a look at my sent inbox and estimate type of bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48954460) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 11:33 AM Author: arousing sooty site halford (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48956169) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 4:55 PM Author: Flatulent fuchsia kitchen While I would bill more than my actual time frequently, I never billed for more than the "value" of my work product. So yes I was honest. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48954471) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 5:22 PM Author: slippery rigor lay (superstar biglawyer) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48954578) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 9:29 AM Author: dull fighting gay wizard (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48955868) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 11:28 AM Author: Hyperactive immigrant self preservation through mental gymnastics we're all good people, right? especially me. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 5:14 PM Author: aromatic roommate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48954529) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 9:45 PM Author: titillating rebellious liquid oxygen mood If someone makes $15 an hour at McDonalds, you don't get to dock their pay because when the orders got slow, they chatted with their cowrker rather than mopped the floor.
The same thing applies to law. You take the time you were at work, working, and you divide proportionally.
It's not natural for a person to read 500 pages of bonds without a break - in fact most research says you need to take periodic breaks for your mind to regenerate.
YOu shouldn't "pause your timer" after draftig some document because you're taking a lap to the water cooler or checking Facebook for a bit because you can't rewrite Section 13.6 e.
Similarly, when you get an email on your blackberry at 11 pm, and it takes you 3 minutes to respond - that's not billed as a 0.05 hour. You had to be on call to check for that email, then you lost the momentum from your evening, you're going to think about that email for 10 minutes after, and the deal will be in your head for whatever else you were planning on doing that night.
My point being that whenever your brain is required to be in "work mode" - someone should be paying for that. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 10:27 PM Author: Bipolar legal warrant >Similarly, when you get an email on your blackberry at 11 pm, and it takes you 3 minutes to respond - that's not billed as a 0.05 hour. You had to be on call to check for that email, then you lost the momentum from your evening, you're going to think about that email for 10 minutes after, and the deal will be in your head for whatever else you were planning on doing that night.
so what do you bill for that? 1.25 to me makes sense |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 10:31 PM Author: titillating rebellious liquid oxygen mood For a single email id do like a 0.3 or 0.4 but if you're answering multiple hours then i feel like the entire time is fair game (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48955262) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 10:35 PM Author: Exhilarant Aggressive Theater wait why cant they mop the floor when orders get slow (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48955265) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 10:40 PM Author: titillating rebellious liquid oxygen mood When its super slow, they should.
When its just a short break, people would quit if they were expected to be fully working 100% of the time. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 10:42 PM Author: Exhilarant Aggressive Theater im all for workers rights but i dont think mickey d's employees can actually quit. thats mickey d's whole business model. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48955287) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 6:28 AM Author: Pea-brained razzle personal credit line locus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48955680) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 11:21 AM Author: nudist vibrant depressive ratface this guy gets it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48956141) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 10:51 PM Author: Crusty Heaven Indirect Expression I bill mainly based upon the value of my work product to the client. If I work hard on something but don't end up with a product that helps the client very much then I will actually underbill for my hours spent. Usually the product is good, though, and then I'm pretty fucking loose in my billing. Me and everyone else I know. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48955307) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 6:28 AM Author: Pea-brained razzle personal credit line locus (Wachtel) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48955681) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 7:31 AM Author: spruce theater stage turdskin Why would anyone be honest when you can inflate your hours by 50% without drawing suspicion? 1500 gets you fired, 2250 gets you a bonus. The only people who ever get caught do colossally stupid shit like bill more than 24 hours in a day, bill for work that was never done, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48955722) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 8:43 AM Author: Bipolar legal warrant The thing most non-Jewish juniors don’t understand is that the firm WANTS you to inflate your bill by 50%. Incentives are entirely aligned. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48955798) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 9:06 AM Author: electric useless brakes Real talk: the people who get "caught" are overbilling by 200-500%, not flame. It's like the young woman who spends too long with one foot out the door, or the dude with developing mental illness who's unable to do more than an hour or two of work a couple times a week. And they're ID'd for qualitative reasons, not the billing itself, which is often a straight-up pretext to expedite getting rid of the person.
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 11:24 AM Author: Ruby Old Irish Cottage Yarmulke I once had to bill more than 24 hours in a day, because our faggy billing system automatically populated 8 hours on holidays. I think this was for the benefit of the hourly employees, but it carried over for salaried lawyers too. Anyway, I ended up working an 18 hour day on Thanksgiving, which the system wouldn't accept. Getting that sorted with the billing system retard was a nightmare. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48956150) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 8:41 AM Author: Seedy Galvanic Twinkling Uncleanness I massively underbill by a few hundred hours a year, often to the benefit of nobody (lots of contingency matters). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48955792) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 8:41 AM Author: Milky wonderful jewess cumskin lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48955794) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 8:44 AM Author: Milky wonderful jewess cumskin At my V5 prestigious elite M&A MFH shop at which I was considered a top associate we had a universal understanding on asshole taxes for work that came in Friday afternoon with a “don’t kill your self on this, Monday AM is fine for a markup” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48955799) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 11:31 AM Author: Ruby Old Irish Cottage Yarmulke (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48956165) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 9:08 AM Author: Silver feces preventive strike The first thing my biglaw partner told me on day 1 is that you never log anything less than a 0.4 even if you spend 30 seconds on it because whatever you’re doing is taking you away from something else you could be doing and billing for (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48955837) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 9:15 AM Author: electric useless brakes I'm not even joking when I say that it's rare and heartwarming to hear about a partner looking out for a young person like that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48955848) |
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Date: June 23rd, 2025 1:55 AM Author: azure 180 people who are hurt plaza CR I have talked with enough friends and people inhouse to be certain that nearly everyone who made it 5+ years at one firm had a partner or senior associate that both coached them up and did a bunch of internal marketing for them. In that sense biglaw is not really that different from other workplaces except it has this preposterous meritocracy mythology that completely overlooks this obviously central factor. It’s very weird to me that still to this day it’s not CW to go to a worse firm if eg you’re coming from a higher ranked lol school than they typically get and will treat you like you’re supposed to be a superstar when you’re a first year.v (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#49041779) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 11:35 AM Author: Vigorous snowy blood rage french chef Wasn't this the premise for Jim Carrey's Liar Liar? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2:#48956178) |