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To: GOP_Lady
And lawyers cannot just make up time to bill — deep, deep trouble. That’s not as easy as you think.

It is a crime how much double billing goes on in the legal profession.

Hillary Clinton herself was the "rainmaker" at the Rose Law Firm, because she could figure out ways to bill as much as 40 hours per day.

Yes, you read that right. 40 hrs per day.

Whatever it is that you "realize" about anything I wrote, you can't be too deep into the legal profession if you aren't aware of how the billing game is so often played.

It is one of many reasons why lawyers have the generally negative reputation that they do.


69 posted on 09/21/2010 7:44:19 PM PDT by Agamemnon (Intelligent Design is to evolution what the Swift Boat Vets were to the Kerry campaign)
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To: Agamemnon

Oh, I just enter their time for their bills and process their bills is all.

You would be surprised how much time is not billed and how much time they write-off for clients.


71 posted on 09/21/2010 7:48:29 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: Agamemnon

A bunch of short phone calls. Bill in large blocks of time.

An hour for a 5 minute phone call? WTF? We bill in blocks of an hour. Just rounding up. I’m sure there are plenty of even more complicated tricks.


82 posted on 09/21/2010 8:36:37 PM PDT by truthfreedom
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