Law firm billing question

[Anonymous]

I just started a new job at a small boutique law firm. I'm being paid hourly, working 10-15 hours a week. It's my first job where we bill clients hourly. With such a set up, would you expect that I would be paid for all hours that I work, or only hours that are billable?

[Anonymous]

Billable

[Anonymous]

I would expect your contract to tell you that.

[Anonymous]

Are you an attorney? I would expect that you would be paid a fixed hourly amount (much less than your billable rate), for all of the hours you work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you an attorney? I would expect that you would be paid a fixed hourly amount (much less than your billable rate), for all of the hours you work.

Yes, I'm an attorney. This was my expectation too. I'm working for someone who has never hired anyone before, so we're still feeling out bumps along the way, and I wanted to make sure my expectations were reasonable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you an attorney? I would expect that you would be paid a fixed hourly amount (much less than your billable rate), for all of the hours you work.

Yes, I'm an attorney. This was my expectation too. I'm working for someone who has never hired anyone before, so we're still feeling out bumps along the way, and I wanted to make sure my expectations were reasonable.

So, if you are asked to do non-billable work, like prepare a "memo to all clients" as marketing material, I would expect you'd be paid for that. That said, for your first job back I would focus more on what you are putting out than on what you are taking in.

[Anonymous]

I have some contract consultants and we pay them for billable time and specific non billable projects we ask them to do. We don't pay for doing time sheets or admin time.