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How do you record your billable AI chat time?

Time spent chatting or using other AI tools for legal analys...
spectacular boistinker
  06/04/26
It’s just another tool. Do you ever list Microsoft off...
Pea-brained brilliant house ape
  06/04/26
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lascivious den useless brakes
  06/04/26
yes
Brass Metal Knife
  06/04/26
Nope. But sometimes I see kooky in-house lawyers who go out ...
spectacular boistinker
  06/05/26
It’s usually paralegals or similar types reviewing inv...
Pea-brained brilliant house ape
  06/06/26
>are very often billable time when is it NOT billable ...
lascivious den useless brakes
  06/04/26
argue with AI that 12 cases in draft brief are hallucinated ...
lascivious den useless brakes
  06/04/26
Same way I do with time wasted on xo.
lake theater stage
  06/04/26
wasted???
Brass Metal Knife
  06/04/26
Well, at least in the context of value provided to clients
lake theater stage
  06/04/26
???????
Brass Metal Knife
  06/04/26
Yeah it's kind of like the sound of one hand clapping. Hard ...
lake theater stage
  06/05/26
i record it as however long it wouldve taken me to do it. so...
Stimulating Indecent Resort
  06/04/26
...
spectacular boistinker
  06/05/26
...
aphrodisiac psychic corn cake
  06/06/26
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aphrodisiac psychic corn cake
  06/06/26


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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:12 PM
Author: spectacular boistinker

Time spent chatting or using other AI tools for legal analysis, document drafting, and the like are very often billable time. Does anyone specifically mention that it's AI time?

I don't. I record it as analysis, drafting, research strategy, whatever.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2Reputation#49915026)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:14 PM
Author: Pea-brained brilliant house ape

It’s just another tool. Do you ever list Microsoft office or westlaw specifically?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2Reputation#49915028)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:18 PM
Author: lascivious den useless brakes



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:29 PM
Author: Brass Metal Knife

yes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2Reputation#49915061)



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Date: June 5th, 2026 12:28 PM
Author: spectacular boistinker

Nope. But sometimes I see kooky in-house lawyers who go out of their way to say things like, "I wouldn't even consider outside counsel who don't use AI to be more efficient." It made me wonder whether lawyers were using time records to address things like that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2Reputation#49916855)



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Date: June 6th, 2026 1:52 PM
Author: Pea-brained brilliant house ape

It’s usually paralegals or similar types reviewing invoices

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2Reputation#49918634)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:18 PM
Author: lascivious den useless brakes

>are very often billable time

when is it NOT billable time?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2Reputation#49915040)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:20 PM
Author: lascivious den useless brakes

argue with AI that 12 cases in draft brief are hallucinated (7.2)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2Reputation#49915049)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:22 PM
Author: lake theater stage

Same way I do with time wasted on xo.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2Reputation#49915057)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:29 PM
Author: Brass Metal Knife

wasted???

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2Reputation#49915062)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:35 PM
Author: lake theater stage

Well, at least in the context of value provided to clients

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2Reputation#49915080)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:58 PM
Author: Brass Metal Knife

???????

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2Reputation#49915178)



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Date: June 5th, 2026 3:13 PM
Author: lake theater stage

Yeah it's kind of like the sound of one hand clapping. Hard yl wrap your head around two equally worthless activates for my client but one they pay me a lot for. Although they unwittingly pay for both.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2Reputation#49916960)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:38 PM
Author: Stimulating Indecent Resort

i record it as however long it wouldve taken me to do it. so, usually = time using AI x 10.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2Reputation#49915087)



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Date: June 5th, 2026 12:30 PM
Author: spectacular boistinker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2Reputation#49916857)



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Date: June 6th, 2026 1:53 PM
Author: aphrodisiac psychic corn cake



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2Reputation#49918637)



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Date: June 6th, 2026 1:53 PM
Author: aphrodisiac psychic corn cake

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2Reputation#49918638)