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Originally posted by Fugee
What I think it means is that Ebola's partner doesn't want to take the hit on his realization rate and would rather have it look as if Ebola didn't work as much. That sucks.
Asking an associate to bill "office" time for being stuck in a plane on client business is BS. I would put it down as client time and let the partner write it off. If the partner can't make the client understand why it should pay that time, then the partner should take the realization rate hit.
I understand why clients don't want to pay for it -- they have to watch expenses -- but lawyers who bill by the hour (rather than by the job) have only their time and experience to sell. If the client is using up time that an attorney could be billing to another client if the attorney wasn't flying on client business, the client should pay.
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I get the feeling that the "bill 8 hours" represents what would be billed to the client on a normal day. I will point out that I did maybe one hour's worth of work on the flight - drafting a two page memo on an issue. Other than that, I spent most of the flight drinking port, snoozing, and being hit on by the one young, attractive flight attendant on the plane.
