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How do you record your billable AI chat time?

Time spent chatting or using other AI tools for legal analys...
Purple Excitant Lodge
  06/04/26
It’s just another tool. Do you ever list Microsoft off...
yapping headpube
  06/04/26
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Soul-stirring Nowag Sound Barrier
  06/04/26
yes
Crimson Piazza
  06/04/26
Nope. But sometimes I see kooky in-house lawyers who go out ...
Purple Excitant Lodge
  06/05/26
It’s usually paralegals or similar types reviewing inv...
yapping headpube
  06/06/26
>are very often billable time when is it NOT billable ...
Soul-stirring Nowag Sound Barrier
  06/04/26
argue with AI that 12 cases in draft brief are hallucinated ...
Soul-stirring Nowag Sound Barrier
  06/04/26
Same way I do with time wasted on xo.
fragrant startled orchestra pit
  06/04/26
wasted???
Crimson Piazza
  06/04/26
Well, at least in the context of value provided to clients
fragrant startled orchestra pit
  06/04/26
???????
Crimson Piazza
  06/04/26
Yeah it's kind of like the sound of one hand clapping. Hard ...
fragrant startled orchestra pit
  06/05/26
i record it as however long it wouldve taken me to do it. so...
Provocative address main people
  06/04/26
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Purple Excitant Lodge
  06/05/26
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contagious goal in life clown
  06/06/26
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  06/06/26


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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:12 PM
Author: Purple Excitant Lodge

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…id#49915026)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:14 PM
Author: yapping headpube

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: Soul-stirring Nowag Sound Barrier



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:29 PM
Author: Crimson Piazza

yes

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Date: June 5th, 2026 12:28 PM
Author: Purple Excitant Lodge

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…id#49916855)



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Date: June 6th, 2026 1:52 PM
Author: yapping headpube

It’s usually paralegals or similar types reviewing invoices

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



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:18 PM
Author: Soul-stirring Nowag Sound Barrier

>are very often billable time

when is it NOT billable time?

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



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:20 PM
Author: Soul-stirring Nowag Sound Barrier

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…id#49915049)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:22 PM
Author: fragrant startled orchestra pit

Same way I do with time wasted on xo.

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



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:29 PM
Author: Crimson Piazza

wasted???

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



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:35 PM
Author: fragrant startled orchestra pit

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

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



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:58 PM
Author: Crimson Piazza

???????

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



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Date: June 5th, 2026 3:13 PM
Author: fragrant startled orchestra pit

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…id#49916960)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:38 PM
Author: Provocative address main people

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…id#49915087)



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Date: June 5th, 2026 12:30 PM
Author: Purple Excitant Lodge



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



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Date: June 6th, 2026 1:53 PM
Author: contagious goal in life clown



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Date: June 6th, 2026 1:53 PM
Author: contagious goal in life clown

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