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Like sending an email directly related to the matter? Yes. If you don’t you’re missing a lot of time others are capturing
Yes, it’s working on the matter.
Yes. Bill for it. “Strategized with X re X.”
Interesting. I haven’t run into that; however, I do normally group it with tangible assignments.
Almost 100% of the time, yes.
Yes. “Attention to email with respect to xyz.”
Almost always. Both if to the client (100% of the time) and intrafirm if it relates to the matter (confer with … or strategize with … etc).
If a partner cares to write that off, that’s on them. It’s billable time working a matter and I’m hurting my own hours if I don’t.
Absolutely. Client.
Absolutely billable to client
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Unless I'm responding to an email with detailed legal analysis (which presumably will take time to respond and edit), I just lump my time reading/responding with the corresponding task for that email.
(idc if this is wrong. billing is stupid)
I just got told to specifically do this so the client doesn’t see so many attorneys billing for the same email exchanges.
I work in ID. My life basically revolves around .1 billing entries for emails. So yes. Basically, bill everything. If the partner needs to cut the time they will. A helpful tip to avoid your time getting cut is only bill the .1 email if it’s sent to you (i.e. you are the first name listed on the To: line). If it’s sent to a partner with CC: to you, bill as “analyze email from x in preparation to do y.” And to be on the safe side, only do the “analyze” billing entry if you are actually doing something with it or the information from the email. That way your next billing entry can be the action of the thing that the email instructed you to do, so when you see it all on the final bill it tells the story of why you did that next action.
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Emails to/from client? Always. Those .1s and .2s add up. (Intrafirm, no.)
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That’s what I realized but I don’t know if I’m to bill a client if it’s email where I’m receiving instructions on the matter
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Lump it in to doing the task you’re receiving instructions on if you can. It’s part of the built in overhead, necessary to the work for the client. If you can’t, I’d bill it as “Confer with X regarding Y” or “Review and analyze information provided by X to determine/assess/prepare for …” (although note some clients disallow billing for internal communications so you may not be able to bill it that way)
Yes.
If I’m emailing a client, yes definitively. But if it’s someone else in the office, I don’t because my firm doesn’t bill for inter office stuff.
It’s a lot of what I do, but not half. My office doesn’t have a minimum billing requirement so I don’t really worry about it. As long as the work is getting done and we have clients coming in.