Started as a stub year this fall and have consistently been told “you’re underbilling” bu associates and counsel. I realized I DID massively UNDER-bill for things i didn’t know were billable in my first few months, like time taken to write up meeting agendas/summaries and distribute to the team, time spent answering another associate’s questions to help with an assignment on a matter we’re both staffed on, etc.
I would love help identifying additional blind spots. What are some tasks new attorneys often don’t realize are billable, or other things we might fail to account for in billing time?
This would be particularly useful right now as I am massively overloaded on work and want to make sure that the actual hours of time/effort put in are captured in my time sheets (which partners do review before assigning new projects).
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