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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This might be a stupid question, but does the hour count include all hours you work on a case or only the hours for which a client ends up paying? If the former, 2000 a year (assuming five days off during the year) comes out to less than 8 hours a workday, even before accounting for the presumably inevitable weekend work. If you went into work early (say, 7:45) and focused on billable work (except for a 30-min lunch break and maybe 15 minutes' worth of bathroom breaks, etc.), you could (theoretically) stop doing billable stuff for the rest of the day by 4:30. Is that untenable for a reason I'm overlooking? (It may be, so apologies if this is off-base/somehow insensitive.) Just seems to me that having your mornings freed up for work, perhaps through your husband's assistance, might make things more manageable.

I get that there's non-billable stuff to do, but it sounds like you're spending 700 hours per year on that. Assuming 51 working weeks during the year, that's almost 14 hours a week. Is that amount really necessary? I obviously don't know, but that sounds like a lot to me, for an industry famously driven by the billable hour, which makes me half-suspect your firm could be comfortable with you doing a bit less there. [/quote]

Hours at law firms = billable hours. You often have to work 12 hour days to bill 8 hours a day. [/quote]

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