I’m a privacy lawyer and I review a lot of emails between the partner I work with and the forensics team regarding the progress of the investigation, ransom negotiations etc. during a cybersecurity incident. As an associate can I bill for this? None of the emails are specially addressed to me nor do I usually respond. However, I review them so I know what’s going on.

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No one knows, ask your management. If you were asked to do it, I’d say yes, but if not, you were just spending your own time. Had an associate try and bill 16hrs on something I didn’t tell them to do because they thought it was a good value add…Nope, it’s your management’s decision.

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check with partner/billing/carrier requirements but we are able to bill for any email that we review if we are in associate on the matter. Unless it’s scheduling or “thanks” of email.

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Typically, yes, but check with those people suggested in the other comments to confirm.

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