I spent my Saturday night putting in my billable from 5 p.m till 2 a.m. This can't be life 😭

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I do it contemporaneously so that I can spend my Saturday nights playing Call of Duty and calling 14-year-olds stupid for letting me die and not reviving me in Co-op.

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Message me your name and I'll have him request you

Enter it daily. It’s life changing.

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I wish I could. We're a medium sized firm. 4 locations but very top happy. 40 attorneys in our Miami office and 1 bankruptcy paralegal and 1 civil paralegal. I'll literally too busy to put time daily and it bites me in the ass every month.

Why did it take you 9 hours to enter your time?

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Because I haven't entered anything in 2 weeks and I had to go through my inbox sent box, CM/ECF subfolders for each district to put everything together 😭

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