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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
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
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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.
