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What Are Billable Hours? A Guide for Lawyers

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This might include, but definitely isn’t limited to: Researching or performing due diligence for a client’s matter Correspondences or meetings related to a case Drafting briefs Filing paperwork Court appearances On the other hand, a great deal of legal work falls into the non-billable hour camp.

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Legal Staffing Lessons for Today’s Marketplace

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Both resolved their issues by bringing in contract attorneys to do the routine due diligence and discovery, freeing up their partners and associates to do more substantive work. With the volatile market for talent and increase in legal demand, we expect contract staffing to be even more crucial to law firms’ strategy heading into 2022.

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Q&A With Allison Murdock: Stepping Up as Stinson LLP’s Managing Partner

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Looking ahead to 2022, we will continue to enhance and upgrade our technology infrastructure and pursue new projects. Depending on the framework adopted by the governing jurisdictions, the prospect of non-lawyer ownership could help law firms like ours pair non-legal services with the exceptional legal work valued by our clients.

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Reflections on ReInvent Law Silicon Valley @ 10 Years – Part 3

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Watching the 2013 presentations about disruption of legal services might not be very shocking, because the format, the presentation, and the topics have become so widely adopted that they seem like they have always been around. Today we take for granted that legal services must be reformed, or they will be disrupted.

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