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How do you record your billable AI chat time?

Time spent chatting or using other AI tools for legal analys...
ungodly ocher step-uncle's house brethren
  06/04/26
It’s just another tool. Do you ever list Microsoft off...
crystalline address
  06/04/26
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Swashbuckling State
  06/04/26
yes
Mint Generalized Bond
  06/04/26
Nope. But sometimes I see kooky in-house lawyers who go out ...
ungodly ocher step-uncle's house brethren
  06/05/26
It’s usually paralegals or similar types reviewing inv...
crystalline address
  06/06/26
>are very often billable time when is it NOT billable ...
Swashbuckling State
  06/04/26
argue with AI that 12 cases in draft brief are hallucinated ...
Swashbuckling State
  06/04/26
Same way I do with time wasted on xo.
Floppy aqua indian lodge telephone
  06/04/26
wasted???
Mint Generalized Bond
  06/04/26
Well, at least in the context of value provided to clients
Floppy aqua indian lodge telephone
  06/04/26
???????
Mint Generalized Bond
  06/04/26
Yeah it's kind of like the sound of one hand clapping. Hard ...
Floppy aqua indian lodge telephone
  06/05/26
i record it as however long it wouldve taken me to do it. so...
Irate Supple Dilemma
  06/04/26
...
ungodly ocher step-uncle's house brethren
  06/05/26
...
salmon dead hospital
  06/06/26
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salmon dead hospital
  06/06/26


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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:12 PM
Author: ungodly ocher step-uncle's house brethren

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=2:#49915026)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:14 PM
Author: crystalline address

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

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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:18 PM
Author: Swashbuckling State



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:29 PM
Author: Mint Generalized Bond

yes

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Date: June 5th, 2026 12:28 PM
Author: ungodly ocher step-uncle's house brethren

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=2:#49916855)



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Date: June 6th, 2026 1:52 PM
Author: crystalline address

It’s usually paralegals or similar types reviewing invoices

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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:18 PM
Author: Swashbuckling State

>are very often billable time

when is it NOT billable time?

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



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:20 PM
Author: Swashbuckling State

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

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



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:22 PM
Author: Floppy aqua indian lodge telephone

Same way I do with time wasted on xo.

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



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:29 PM
Author: Mint Generalized Bond

wasted???

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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:35 PM
Author: Floppy aqua indian lodge telephone

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

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



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:58 PM
Author: Mint Generalized Bond

???????

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Date: June 5th, 2026 3:13 PM
Author: Floppy aqua indian lodge telephone

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=2:#49916960)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:38 PM
Author: Irate Supple Dilemma

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=2:#49915087)



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Date: June 5th, 2026 12:30 PM
Author: ungodly ocher step-uncle's house brethren



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Date: June 6th, 2026 1:53 PM
Author: salmon dead hospital



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Date: June 6th, 2026 1:53 PM
Author: salmon dead hospital

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