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[quote=Anonymous]I have never heard of a billable hour defined as anything other than an amount of time recorded on a matter that the firm can choose either to bill or to write off. Bill-ABLE is the key concept here, as distinguished from Bill-ED. A simple and clear way to avoid confusion on this is for pay to be based on collections, not just raw hours with no attention to realization rate.  The problem with having hours written off so they are never billed and hence can never be collected remains, but at least things are clear.

Absent something in the agreement defining “billable” as “billed,” there would seem to be a good argument that the firm is wrong. Unfortunately, nobody who wants to stay employed is likely to succeed at that by siccing an employment attorney on the firm.

Having hours written off by somebody else is the bane of the “grinder” lawyer. It happens everywhere.  If a person can’t accept a given firm’s practices they probably should look elsewhere. Asking for clarity on why something was written off might help, but it might also just alienate the person providing the work. [/quote]

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