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As a second year, it takes me FOREVER to research and draft a brief. Can’t even guesstimate.
What the heck? This is a very silly question to ask.
Billing time heavily depends on the issues and the precedents available. You can’t really set a standard gauge for these things because every case is different. Juniors may bill more time but they’re also the workhorses that know all the factual details. Discoveries can make or break your case so sometimes they require a lot of additional research.
I was told one time it should take approximately 1 hour of billable time (including research and drafting, etc.) per page of brief. So an 8 page brief should bill about 8 hours. I think that can be wildly inaccurate as, for example, appellate briefs while spanning approximately 20-30 pages can take 40+ hours to draft, but I think maybe that works for general brief writing?
78 hours. Thanks.
We do a lot of initial evaluations. Can range anywhere from 8-10 hours of writing, not including research and doc review. I spent over 20 hours on a default judgment motion (gonna get cut tho because I needed so many revisions). I have pumped out three MSJs in a week, probably 12 hours each, but have been told that normally should take 20-30 hours each. It all depends on the motion honestly. Drafting a daubert motion right now, combined with working from home and not being familiar with the case, probably 20-30 hours too.
For a first, solid MSJ draft I always budget 20 hours and then another 10 for revisions and finalizing. Senior Associates have told me they do the same and budgeting that way helps you feel lucky if it’s less than that.
Even with a great precedent on a case I worked previously, I spent 12 hours and then got skewered on revisions by the partner because he wanted to add more factual details. Wound up at about 35 hours.
This is really going to depend on the specific type of contract/brief/case. There is a huge range.
3rd year here (and feel like it still takes me so much longer to do things than I’d like). I think MILs are also so varied depending on the issue. If it’s a form motion it’ll be 10 minutes. I just filed a motion with a 20-page memorandum that took 3 days.
Anywhere from 2-200 hours 😁
I was going to say 1-300, but yeah.
Depends. As a fourth year real estate associate, I find, if I start from really good forms, it typical takes me between 3-5 hours to draft a simple PSA and maybe 4-8 hours for a set of RE loan docs if terms aren’t crazy complicated. Every deal is different though and there are definitely outliers.