I remember when we used paper timesheets. For trivial matters you could bill in 0.1 hour increments, including just using 0.1 hrs for an entry.
Then, sometime in the early 90s we switched to a computer-based timekeeping system on the network and the minimum time for any entry became 0.2 hours. The bullshit reason given was that no billable task really takes 6 minutes or less - even if it is a 30 second phone call. The real reason was that it was a way to squeeze more $$$ from clients by doubling the minimum billing entry for any billable work (lawyers, paralegals, specialists, etc.).
I still have a few pads of the old paper timesheets kept just for posterity. They are in some box in storage. New kidds like Akiva prolly have never seen a pad of timesheets. Just as I never saw inkwells and quill pens and just gott in at the tail-end of Dictaphones and needing to spend time in the law lieberry for research. Newbies like Akiva prolly have no idea about such thangs (DaLieberry is still used for certain thangs, butt way less than it used to be).
Yett despite all the huge efficiencies that computerization has brought to DaLawBizz, oddly the total hours per project has gone uppp - even accounting for the general rate of inflation.
Weird, huh?
Oh well, these various lawyuhs re: Chanboned/UOIP will bill until the bucket of munny is drained dry.
Why?
Because they can.
4.2 might be an underestimate for GRIVNER. Butt for Radar The Magnificent, he might bill 30 hours because he might never have had to draft a scheduling order and may nott even have the boilerplate text on his computer. Radar never made it to Bigg Law so he never had the opportunity to download and archive all the forms, filings, boilerplate, legal research, and cases that are available on Bigg Law servers - just to download and use or archive on a removable drive - take it with you when you leave just don’t mention it. Radar does nott have this, so he rightly wood knead more heures to accomplish a task that a Bigg Law dude like Akiva (and mebbe GRIVNER) can do quickly because they have both experience at doing it AND oodles of boilerplate he can use from other draft or final scheduling orders he has in computer files available to him at a keystroke.
So what might take GRIVNER 4.2 heures could legitimately take Radar 10x as long (he will need to spend time locating examples and studying what is needed and how such a scheduling order is composed and presented). And GRIVNER’s draft will still be significantly superior to Radar’s.
And that is ONE reason why it is foolish to think one saves munny by using a lawyer with a cheaper billing rate. The Radars will actually wind up costing substantially more for the same matter than a higher rate Bigg Law lawyer (or alumnus like Akiva) would.
NEVER cheap~OUTT on doctors, lawyers, accountants - it will usually wind up costing more (and often a LOTT more - potentially costing your life, freedom, business, or worse) than if you simply buy the best available service provider right from the start. In general, a low billing rate lawyer will have to bill you for the time it takes them to LEARN what the higher billing rate lawyer already knows and thus is much, much more efficient (and better at).
KIAN KAMAL KIAN (or whatever his/her name is) screwed uppp by selecting Radar and the Realtor.
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