Transactional associates: do you bill your time while you are up late at night waiting for either: 1) opposing counsel doc reverts; or 2) when someone senior on your team asks to do something, but you are waiting for them to finish so you can do that something?

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If (1) it’s something that needs to be done that night and (2) there is no other matter I can work on to get ahead and bill to, yes

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100% yes

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Attend to x matter.

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On 2 yes. On 1 If I’m told to stay up and wait then yes. If I can do it the next day if I want then no.

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No. But because I am never just waiting for a document. I usually working on something else or relaxing.

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As a litigation associate, am I missing something here? We don’t bill our time when we wait for someone else to turn revisions to motions/briefs etc, even if we are staying up all night for it and not working on other matters. Why is it that transactional associates are allowed to bill while not actively doing something? (Please don’t misunderstand, I’m not mad, just very very jealous)

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When it’s after my bed time, if I have to stay up solely for the client, hell yes they are paying for that time. I once had a client provide something at 2:30am that had to be processed before morning. There should be a difference between my time from 10am-10:30am and 1am-1:30am.

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First one always (if I’m not working on anything else or if it prevents me from doing what I would’ve otherwise been doing - ie sleeping). Second one not as much - if it’s a partner then maybe but usually I just watch tv or cook or clean while I’m waiting

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What if you’d rather be sleeping in situation #2? Haha

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Yes if the client requested to wait and turn around quickly or file or the opposing counsel is being difficult. No if just waiting for my own partner to sign off on my ramblings lol

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