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[quote=Anonymous]You can't just focus on billable work for the entire day. And no one takes just 15 minutes worth of bathroom/coffee breaks during the day AND spends every other minute doing productive work. There are mandatory practice group meetings, mandatory associate training meetings, work required to help a partner write an article, or a speech, etc. All non-billable. Only in the law firm business model does every second NOT billing evaporate in terms of being viewed as "work". That is what makes law firm life so soul-sucking---your entire life is judged in 6 minute increments. When I was a young associate, an older partner explained his personal theory of time-keeping to me---he said that if you spent 10 hours at work and were reasonably efficient, then you could expect to bill 8. Take the 8 hours and reasonably apportion it among the matters you are working on. [/quote]
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