I work in a 7-attorney firm with a national presence. Partly because I’m only a few months in, I work a roughly 8-6 day. I’m also new to billing and often find myself working all day and billing just 4 hours. Whenever I bring this up to the partner, he says it’s good we’re not over billing our client. We don’t have minimum billable hours so it doesn’t matter much for the firm’s sake but I think I’m missing out on learning the important skill of billing my time. Has anyone ever experienced this?

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Well, big picture, it does matter for the firm’s sake (unless you guys do a lot of flat fee stuff). My advice would be to ramp up capturing all of your time and see if you get any pushback/notice write-offs. You might be pleasantly surprised!

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The thing is I get pushback and clearly legal tasks. I’ll bill e.g. 2.5 hours for working on an estoppel certificate and partner will come to me and say we can’t be charging that much for this, I’m marking it down to 2. But I’ll try to capture more of the related tasks.

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