I’m a 4th year and I’ve never billed contemporaneously for even a one full week. I guess I’d just rather have one day of torture recording all my hours at the end of the month than that extra little torture daily. I’m wondering how common or rare this is in BigLaw. Thoughts?

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I’ve heard that people end up undercounting time if they use the method you’re using. Use the timer and just do it daily. Don’t want to shoot yourself in the foot.

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We have a two-business-day time entry deadline for associates. Partners have to have their time in by the fifth of the next month.

How are you recording your time? I can't imagine trying to keep time for an entire month and enter it that far removed. I have several coworkers who keep a daily hard copy log that they send to their assistants for entry into ExpertTime.

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You definitely lose time if you don’t record it daily. My firm switched to requiring daily time entry and the average billables per day increased, indicating people were losing a lot of time by waiting till the end of the month to input. Everyone I know who waits till end of month says they know they’re losing time compared to months when they enter daily.

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7th year and I’ve also never billed contemporaneously. I keep a notebook of scribbled time and record time at the end of the week.

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My firm fusses at you to enter time every three days. First firm I’ve ever had do that, but I’ve learned to appreciate it. Now, I’ve found every other day the best solution because it’s easier to remember what you did, but after more than two days, I can’t remember anything.

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I definitely do not enter time contemporaneously. I’ve tried to get better at it but I usually end up entering at the end of the week

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I lose time when I don’t record daily. I’m trying to do the every 3 days my firm requires. We have to have at least 8 hours entered for each business day or it doesn’t count.

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I get anxiety any time I don’t entre not time within 24 hours. Typically I enter it in real time as I finish tasks. Granted, I’m in litigation so I usually bill less than 10 entries per day.

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I tend to have time intensive tasks like writing/editing briefs, prepping for /taking depositions, reviewing documents, doing legal research, trial prep.

I also don’t bill every email I read/send. I usually just bill a single “email correspondence” entry for each client, but only if it’s a significant amount of emails. Otherwise I just don’t bill the emails.

I don’t think I lose time. I guesstimate sometimes, not gonna lie. But my firm has an app that tracks what you are doing online so that helps to look back on. It’s kind of creepy like big brother, but for me the pros are worth the cons.

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