enough is enough?
 

Segrams surprised me the most. I didn't really quibble with the rationale that better gins are best sipped on their own than mixed in a cocktail. I generally feel the same way about premium tequila in margaritas.

But, like I said, I'm willing to repeat the experiment to test the results. In the name of science. I especially want to try that Old Raj and the Junipero.

enough is enough?
 

I've had the Old Raj. It's a fine gin. On the other hand, I don't think I'd ever want to drink gin neat. I need something to cut the astringency of the aromatics, either vermouth or tonic and lime.

For Those Full of Shit Enough to Deny Double Billing and Bill Padding
 

There have been a few prosecutions (I remember one from North Carolina a good while back) -- but only in truly gruesome cases.

See, that's where you're wrong.

S_A_M

enough is enough?
 

Cucumber. Seriously.

enough is enough?
 

Yes I had some sort of a gin mojito with cucumber and it was deelicious.

enough is enough?
 

That's one of the ingredients in Hendrick's, my favorite gin.

For Those Full of Shit Enough to Deny Double Billing and Bill Padding
 

Re having done it in the past or continuing to do it?

For Those Full of Shit Enough to Deny Double Billing and Bill Padding
 

maybe he was just following orders?

For Those Full of Shit Enough to Deny Double Billing and Bill Padding
 

I do not double bill, never have and never will.

As for the rest, I try hard to keep my time straight and to get it right. There are incentives to do work that isn't absolutely necessary, especially on big cases where it gets lost in the wash.

There is obviously plenty of corruption. But I do not believe that "everyone does it." You saying that reminds me of Spanky insisting that every man is sexually attracted to 16 year-olds. I don't think that is true either.

S_A_M

For Those Full of Shit Enough to Deny Double Billing and Bill Padding
 

I didn't say "double bill." I referred to padding, a much different thing, counselor.

Everyone has padded a bill. Everyone. Those who've billed have all found ways to justify it or rationalize that it wasn't padding after the fact. But they've padded, and they know it.

Think about it. Do you really expect me to believe that every week you've done a real true 37.5 - 55 billable hours? That half hour you pissed away bullshitting about your weekend with another lawyer in the middle of a meeting that was supposed to be about a case... You wrote that off? Put it down as admin time or personal time? Those calls from your friends during the day - to keep a note to make sure they're deducted from your time? Those lost 20 minute chunks of time playing on these boards are all removed from your billable time? Come on. Put down the rosary.

That you're here during the week makes your posture kind of, well, amusing. You do realize that.

Nobody's squeaky clean. Some of us are just better at deluding ourselves.

For Those Full of Shit Enough to Deny Double Billing and Bill Padding
 

God no. I don't believe it and nor would anyone I work with. But then my mad skillz have allowed me to survive in "BIGLAW" while only very rarely billing 2,000 hours in a year.

Usually. Probably not always.

Ah . . . see, you presume I have friends. And you presume they'd call me to bs during work. Projecting again.

Again, mostly -- probably not entirely or precisely -- just like said above. I did not intend to make this personal, but you have no idea how I track my time.

I do make notes when I start something and when I move on to something else. A small page of notes each day, entered into the billing system within 2-3 days. Those entries do include little notes like (-.2) or (-.1) for estimates of lost time. There is inevitably some slippage -- even more so than having to track tenths of an hour requires -- and its not a precise system, but it is an honest effort.

Never said I was, SD, but I don't buy into your world-view.

S_A_M

P.S. I haven't started billing yet for today.

For Those Full of Shit Enough to Deny Double Billing and Bill Padding
 

It's not my worldview. This isn't a "perception is reality" situation, as the independent evidence cited at the start of this thread and in numerous studies over so many years has proven.

That I'm what you'd call a cynic doesn't make me wrong or undo those facts.

I applaud you for being one of the very, very few exceptions.

For Those Full of Shit Enough to Deny Double Billing and Bill Padding
 

In the spirit of bi-partisanship, I will note that I once billed in excess of 255 hours/month for 8 months straight. All legit. Too legit, too legit to quit.

For Those Full of Shit Enough to Deny Double Billing and Bill Padding
 

Obviously, you and I are the only ones with any integrity and ethics here, but I do public interest work for a not-for-profit and billing is not an issue. The rest who have posted on this thread should be disbarred for the fraud they endorse and participate in.

I see that Sam Brownback does not believe in evolution. Since he is a Catholic, and the Catholic Church recognizes evolution, I like forward to the spate of stories about how he's going to be in trouble with the church for his beliefs. Who's with me?