Billing attorneys... who is willing to admit taking longer to depose witnesses (asking questions you know doesn’t matter) so you can get extra billing in

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Haven’t done that in a deposition but have dragged our phone calls a bit longer than was needed when I’ve noticed that I was just shy of the next .1 increment. A 15 second recap is sometimes all you need

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I’ll admit to asking extra questions to get another half hour or so, but half the time I’ve done this it has led to legitimate issues being discovered as a result of extra probing. In other words, actually gives value

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Never. Not once, not for 5 minutes. I have so much work to do after being in a deposition all day and so many emails to go through that I’m ready to be done and move on the second I’m done with my cross.

If I’ve agreed I can’t bill for travel, I will get permission to attend telephonically and if I can’t do that I will schedule any phone calls I had during my drive, when feasible, to find other ways to capture travel time.

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