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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, others are overcharging ... all those "Billable Hours" aren't happening, not as reported. Either act as others do and make peace with it, or get out.[/quote]

I always wondered how prevalent this was when I was at the law firm.  I never did it but I was working all the time and would barely hit 2000 hours per year.[/quote]

Out of curiosity, why is this? Were you doing a ton of non-billable stuff? Or were there stretches where you'd be at the office but just didn't have billable projects to work on?[/quote]

I was a securities lawyer and for the most part December and January were dead months and they would stick us on business development projects that didn't count.  These projects required a fair amount of hours but it was all non-billable.  I had another required large project where I had to compile all of the deals in our sector for the past year and list out certain information in a spreadsheet.  Not hard or anything but time consuming.

Otherwise, there were times where I would be waiting around during the day for work to become available and sometimes a company would decide on Friday that they wanted to launch a deal on Monday so I was working all night on the weekend.  So, dead months in January and February combined with ups and downs for deal flow made it seem like I was working a lot.[/quote]

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