Bill More Efficiently and Ethically
Meet Your Ethical Duty to Keep Contemporaneous Time Records
Focuses on an attorney’s ethical obligations to the client to maintain accurate, contemporaneous time records which describe billable tasks in sufficient detail to support the reasonableness and necessity of the attorney’s billable work
Capture All Time and Effectively Describe Tasks
Teaches law students, clerks, and young lawyers how to capture and effectively document every 0.1 by billing in bites, not blocks, and avoiding generic task descriptions that may not meet client billing guidelines
Bill Only Billable Tasks to Avoid Client Rejection
Trains law clerks and associates to describe their tasks in a manner that meets client billing guidelines and ensures approval of the bill
Praise for The Billable Hour
“This is a book that I would recommend to EVERY lawyer in private practice.”
“I think it is rare that a book lives up to its claim that it can enhance revenue for a lawyer. This book WILL enhance the revenue for every lawyer who makes an honest attempt to follow the simple suggestions for smarter billing.”
-- Jerry Foxhoven
Executive Director Legal Clinic
Drake University Law School
Bill Smarter. Bill More. Get the Guide.
As lawyers, we all spend time and money learning to improve our deposition skills, our jury trial skills, etc. It makes just as much sense to spend a little time and money to sharpen our billing skills to ensure we are keeping detailed records, capturing all time, and meeting our ethical obligation to our clients to maintain contemporaneous, accurate time records.
Request a Live Lecture
Invite the author, Annie Dike, to come speak to your students, lawyers, or paralegals about the realities day-to-day life in the practice of law and how to ease the stress of keeping contemporaneous time records.
Request a 60-Minute Webinar
Request access to a 60-minute ethics webinar you can share anytime with your students, lawyers, or staff that will help them capture more time and describe tasks more effectively to meet client billing guidelines.