Comments on: The failure of billable-hour compensation

By: Carnival of Trust – November 2009

Carnival of Trust – November 2009 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:12:52 +0000

[...] and law firms want to achieve for themselves. I’ve written about trust here at Law21 on a few occasions, and you’ll probably find this edition of the Carnival to be perhaps a little more [...]

By: Staff cuts and short-term thinking

Staff cuts and short-term thinking — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:54:51 +0000

[...] One possibility is that firms have to cut fixed personnel expenses somewhere, but they fear the recruitment black eye that comes from associate layoffs and the seismic impact of partner cuts, so it’s the secretaries, paralegals, IT and marketing people who get the heave. Another is that these firms were overstaffed to begin with, not an unreasonable guess — everyone was living large in the recent boom times, and if a one-to-one ratio of lawyers to assistants made some of the fee earners happy, it was all worthwhile. A darker possibility — that associates are keeping the administrative tasks to themselves to maintain their billable hour totals, depriving assistants of work — is all too likely. [...]

By: Defining the Millennial organisation « Enlightened tradition

Defining the Millennial organisation « Enlightened tradition — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:46:08 +0000

[...] are now.) It probably won’t behave like the firms in Jordan Furlong’s article “The failure of billable-hour compensation“, which describes with alarming clarity ”an under-publicized way in which the billable [...]