Question for the readers: do Vegas firms cut your billable hours?Yes, all/most firms cut the hours billed before the bill goes to the client, but at the end of the day/week does your firm cut hours billed off of your timesheet (making you work extra billable hours to meet your requirement)? Let us know through the comment section or by emailing nevadalegal@gmail.com.
In response to my magic number post, one reader wrote:
I think your "magic number" is a bit deceiving, albeit the only way you can boil these firms down to a number. The reason being that many firms strike hours, and count the strike against the associate. This affects the accuracy of the "billable hours" number.
Sounds like a true sweatshop practice. I wonder which firms cut billables from timesheets?
Let us know and we'll award them the official Vegas legal sweatshop award.
M&A does not cut any of your hours billed off of your total.
ReplyDeleteI think someone is trying hard to sell the legal community on M&A, based on this and other recent comments.
ReplyDeleteI have heard otherwise about the bills getting hammered (cut a lot) at M&A, from an associate who works there.
Learn how to bill and you wouldn't have to use this blog to air any perceived grievances you have...
ReplyDelete*cough* Alverson *cough*
ReplyDeleteJust trying to tell what Marquis & Aurbach does and trying to get all the information out there about law firms. Great blog. While one person has "heard" otherwise that M&A cuts hours, I know that they don't.
ReplyDeleteWhoa. Whoa. Easy on picking on the blog.
ReplyDeleteI'm not writing comments, just hosting comments from attorneys and paralegals out there reading.
As a general note to everyone out there: don't exercise your grudges out on the blog. It's here to provide info for people interested in Nevada law, judges, and the Vegas legal market. Don't poison the well.
That said, if someone has experienced billable cutting at M&A or Alverson, who am I to call them liars?
It's a tabloid blog. It runs on word of mouth and I try my best to check all information, or at the very least, retract information when I learn it's wrong.
I only post information on the main page when I have heard it from multiple identified sources or have it confirmed. The comment section is for the public.
Any other M&A people out there wanna chime in and clear this up?
I wonder how you (the blogger) bills when he/she spends all his/her time posting and checking/rechecking comments.
ReplyDeleteInquiring minds want to know...
SHE does just fine thank you.
ReplyDeleteOther interesting questions about billables: (1) do firms with lower billables require certain amount of pro bono hours not counted in the billables listed? (2) I would be shocked if Holland & Hart associates would ever make partner billing 1800. Thus, if you want to make partner anywhere, you got to bill a ton.
ReplyDelete"Learn how to bill and you wouldn't have to use this blog to air any perceived grievances you have..."
ReplyDeleteSo, how do you bill exactly? If you take 8 hours to write a motion, and your firm thinks it should have taken you 5, do you make up the other 3 by opening mail at .6 a letter? Just curious, because I think "learn how to bill" sounds an awful lot like "learn how to screw your clients."