Another billing question, this one for the litigators: what are your go-to narratives for all of the time that gets sucked up by dealing with emails on super active cases? I’m newly assigned to a matter that actually requires task billing instead of block billing AND that has tons of email traffic that I have to read—but not necessarily act on—to stay on top of the case.

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Does anyone use "attend to correspondence re X"? I like it if I'm supposed to be reading and following emails but I'm not the main voice in the flow (i.e., I'm not sending many responses or long substantive responses).

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This wouldn’t have worked in my practice either. I’d use “review and analyze” and never “attend to.”

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Communicate with (as broad a category as your client would allow) re (as broad a category as your client would allow). Reading an email is still communicating. The sender is communicating with you. Talking in person or over chat or phone is also communicating. ;-)

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It is client dependent but I would lump together however many emails I could that fall under the topic. The limiting factor is the topic, I think. The topic needs to be sufficiently limited such that it doesn’t look overboard. I think “litigation strategy”might be too broad for some clients. Might have to go one step more detailed.

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I often put “Analyze strategy for addressing [subject matter of email]” but that may be more likely to be written off than saying you’re “communicating” as A1 suggests

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Review, analyze, and confer re [XYZ] and prepare strategy for next steps.

Anything along those lines.

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