{"id":4395,"date":"2006-02-21T00:38:07","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T04:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2006\/02\/21\/the-billable-hour-resources-p"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:09","slug":"the-billable-hour-resources-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/02\/21\/the-billable-hour-resources-page\/","title":{"rendered":"The Billable Hour Resources Page"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Legal <\/FONT>outsourcing<\/FONT><\/A> advocate <\/FONT>Lisa Solomon<\/FONT><\/A> has put together an excel- <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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lent <\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT>Billable Hour Resources Page<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A>, on the website of her <\/FONT>retail firm, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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The Billable Hour™ Co<\/FONT><\/A> (which offers “clever timepieces for lawyers”). <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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The web page aptly sums up its content:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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                                                                                                     “pocketWatchS”<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“A compilation of links to books; studies and reports; newspaper <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and magazine articles; and blog entries discussing the billable <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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hour and related subjects such as client service and value billing.” <\/FONT>                                                                               <\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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An upcoming press release, notes that Lisa, “a practicing lawyer and<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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partner in The Billable Hour™  Company, vetted all of the listed items for <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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relevance before adding them to the collection.   Her spouse and  time-<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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piece partner<\/FONT>, Mark Solomon explains: <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/DIV>
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“While the utility and proper role of the ‘billable hour’ is hotly <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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debated in the legal community, until now there hasn’t been a <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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single comprehensive source for links to writings on the subject.”<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Although their timepieces bring a bit of humor to the subject of billable <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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hours, the Solomons want “to encourage serious consideration of the issues <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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involved in the billable hour\/value billing discussion.”  As the debate unfolds, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the Resources Page<\/EM> <\/FONT>will be regularly updated; it has an RSS feed.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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This list is far more comprehensive than others I have seen.  Of <\/FONT>equal im-<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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portance for those interesting in seriously considering the ethical and <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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practical issues raised, the <\/FONT>Billable Hours Resources Page<\/EM> — unlike others <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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— includes materials <\/FONT>that are skeptical of both the blanket condemnation of <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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hourly billing and <\/FONT>the unquestioning acceptance of the value billing mantra<\/FONT>.  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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website and voice the Editor’s belief that “value billing” may <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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result in neither<\/FONT> lower overall fees for clients <\/FONT>nor more leisure <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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time for associates. See, e.g<\/EM>., chronomentrophobia<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> (hourly <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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billing is not the problem) and <\/FONT>value billing or venal bilking?<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A>.<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/FONT><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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So, the f\/k\/a<\/EM> gang suggests you bookmark the page and grab its RSS <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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feed — or even re-syndicate it <\/FONT>(instructions are at the foot of the page). <\/FONT> <\/DIV>
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Thanks to Lisa and Mark Solomon for assembling this tool, and — “ad-<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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vanced praise” — for <\/FONT>keeping it updated. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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                                                                                    Billable Hour desk clock<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A> \"BillableDeskClock\"<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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