I’m a 5th year attorney. This is great advice and similar to the advice I’ve received along the way. It helped me keep my sanity with the annual requirement. Bill everything!
I could appreciate. ."...agonized over email" 😅😅😅!!! Lololl. Clients sometimes won't understand why legal professionals use specific & detailed words...soo true. In the end ...the lawyers wording will protect them from some liabilities. ..and that's why it's soo crucial to be detailed in billing entries or any correspondence. Thank you Sir!😊
I found your video extremely helpful! I was a Plaintiff PI paralegal for almost ten years, and now I’m on the other side-for only two weeks! Eeek! The only experience I’ve encountered with billable hours until now, were required by the Court for attorneys’ fee motions in work comp and PIP. Do you have any advice you like to give your paralegals regarding notating their time? I definitely keep a notepad of everything I do during the day, and I enter everything into our billing software before I leave every night. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again for the informative video!
Any billing to justify a retainer is not okay. That said, litigation is rarely "clear and cut" since, generally speaking, each side needs to believe in the merits of their position to keep paying the legal bills. In other words, if the case is totally stacked against one party, they'd likely settle sooner than later unless one of two things are true - 1) they can't settle because they don't have the money to settle, although if they can pay their lawyers to litigate, they can usually find the money to settle, or 2) they know they have a bad position but they are so upset about how things went down that they will keep fighting based on principle. I don't see a lot of #2, although it's a thing. And when it's a thing, you should expect that the party fighting out of principle will come up with ways to make things difficult, which can turn a clear and cut case from a legal liability perspective into an administrative time (and money) suck from a practical perspective.
Good morning and thank you for the video. I want to open a nurse staffing agency in Pennsylvania, can you please tell me what are the states requirements ?
Good suggestion. I use the term "research" sometimes, although somewhat sparingly for just this reason. If it's research that is unique, something I should not be expected to know, i.e., an issue where I think the client would understand why I don't know that, then I am not sensitive to using the term. If I am in a situation where I am sensitive to it, it's likely a non-billable situation anyway. There are times, though, where I may choose a word like "analyze" instead of research, e.g., "analyzed the difference between this statutory remedy vs. that statutory remedy). Again, for the reason that you point out. So, thank you for sharing your tip!
Brett Cenkus I enjoyed your video. Please make more education/motivation videos for lawyers. There does not seem to be anyone on TH-cam who owns this space yet.
I’m a 5th year attorney. This is great advice and similar to the advice I’ve received along the way. It helped me keep my sanity with the annual requirement. Bill everything!
This is fantastic, clear advice. As a first year lawyer, this has been the most helpful guidance on billing I’ve received. Thanks!
You're welcome, Thomas. Thank you for your feedback.
I could appreciate. ."...agonized over email" 😅😅😅!!! Lololl. Clients sometimes won't understand why legal professionals use specific & detailed words...soo true. In the end ...the lawyers wording will protect them from some liabilities. ..and that's why it's soo crucial to be detailed in billing entries or any correspondence. Thank you Sir!😊
Agreed!
I found your video extremely helpful! I was a Plaintiff PI paralegal for almost ten years, and now I’m on the other side-for only two weeks! Eeek! The only experience I’ve encountered with billable hours until now, were required by the Court for attorneys’ fee motions in work comp and PIP. Do you have any advice you like to give your paralegals regarding notating their time? I definitely keep a notepad of everything I do during the day, and I enter everything into our billing software before I leave every night. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again for the informative video!
Can you do a video on how to improve at attention to detail and organization as a junior corporate associate
This is adequate advice for litigators also.
"i learned to actually be an attorney on youtube" is something i actually want to say one day (obviously after graduating law school lol)
Very helpful tips aand time saavers. Thank you
You're welcome, Cynthia!
Great advice
Thanks for the pointers!
You're welcome!
How about billing for time trying to justify the need for a ridiculous retainer over a clear and cut case involving a fence dispute?
Any billing to justify a retainer is not okay. That said, litigation is rarely "clear and cut" since, generally speaking, each side needs to believe in the merits of their position to keep paying the legal bills. In other words, if the case is totally stacked against one party, they'd likely settle sooner than later unless one of two things are true - 1) they can't settle because they don't have the money to settle, although if they can pay their lawyers to litigate, they can usually find the money to settle, or 2) they know they have a bad position but they are so upset about how things went down that they will keep fighting based on principle. I don't see a lot of #2, although it's a thing. And when it's a thing, you should expect that the party fighting out of principle will come up with ways to make things difficult, which can turn a clear and cut case from a legal liability perspective into an administrative time (and money) suck from a practical perspective.
Good morning and thank you for the video.
I want to open a nurse staffing agency in Pennsylvania, can you please tell me what are the states requirements ?
How much?
how much what, dang biga?
Don’t say ‘researched’ . Self education is not billable and could get struck out
Good suggestion. I use the term "research" sometimes, although somewhat sparingly for just this reason. If it's research that is unique, something I should not be expected to know, i.e., an issue where I think the client would understand why I don't know that, then I am not sensitive to using the term. If I am in a situation where I am sensitive to it, it's likely a non-billable situation anyway. There are times, though, where I may choose a word like "analyze" instead of research, e.g., "analyzed the difference between this statutory remedy vs. that statutory remedy). Again, for the reason that you point out. So, thank you for sharing your tip!
Brett Cenkus I enjoyed your video. Please make more education/motivation videos for lawyers. There does not seem to be anyone on TH-cam who owns this space yet.
@@saqaleka thank you! I will keep the videos coming
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