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I usually draft the srogs first, so I will review the case documents and pleadings as part of this in order to get a full grasp of issues and make sure I am asking the right questions.
So that might take up to 2 hours. But then the other discovery requests will be less than an hour (sometimes 20 minutes) each.
That said I just drafted 43 contention srogs today and it took 0.7
When I was a junior associate, I might have had a specific answer for you, something along the lines of “15 an hour, so no more than 3 hours for 45.”
Now that I know things, I might devote 3 hours just to craft 12 very targeted requests.
How about the amount of time it takes? What kind of q is this?
I guess the question is how long does it typically take you? Chill.
🧐are you sure you’re a senior litigation associate?
OP, if you worded your post like your response here, then the context would have prevented people from such reactions.
Depends. I bill for the drafting and then for review of materials I needed to look at in order to strategize.
However long it took?
Are you asking to see the average people take to draft? It shouldn’t take like 3 hours for 45 questions.
Yea, it depends on the type of matter your doing SROGs for. If it’s PI where they are usually template and only need a little alteration 3 hours for 45 seems excessive. Now complex matters yea of course it could be more. My response was more of a way to ask OP if the intended question was meant to ask for an average or just asking how…….
3 hours and 15 minutes is the answer lol
I guess a Senior associate doesn’t know how to ask a clear question on this forum. You did ask “how long do you bill” - implying you were not going to bill the time it took. Anyone in litigation knows it could take 30 minutes or 3 hours depending on the complexity of the case and the facts. There is no general time. If you don’t like the Partner’s response, don’t ask unclear questions. And responding with “chill” is immature.
Lol. Ok.
Bill for all your time (don’t cut yourself short) - It will hurt you at the end if you start cutting your time.
Depends on the type of case and whether I’m using a go-by or drafting them all from scratch
However long it took.
How ever long it takes.
I had to look this shit up, cause I’m not a litigator anymore. Are 45 rogs even allowed in the jurisdiction in question? That seems excessive. (I know this doesn’t answer your original question. Sorry. Just that the number stood out to me)
You submit a declaration justifying the need for additional srogs bc of complexity of the case, etc.
As long as you can?
Use the timer on your billing platform/database
Good, case-specific rogs take time. You have to review the case material and carefully consider what information is missing for your COA, defense, affirmative defense, or cross-claim.
Bad, generic, crap-rogs that are recycled by generations of associates and ask information that is readily available in the file? They probably spent 30 mins and went to play on their phone for the next 8.5 hours.
Damn, yall are starting the year off in spectacular form. 9 hours would get cut IMO. Maybe they could bill it in different ways, like reviewing docs in prep for drafting, analysis of case law regarding x issue in order to draft special interrogatory for potential dispositive motion, etc etc. I also have been told the golden rule is 1 page of drafting is 1 hour billing which may be why associate billed the way they did. Hope that helps!
I was introduced to this rule my first year as a billable associate by a senior associate who managed to bill more than anyone else with less time in the office.
Sometimes it tracks. Sometimes it doesn’t. In all cases it’s fraud to use such a measurement if your client contract specifically states that only time spent on the work can be billed and not how long it “usually” takes.