How to Bill Time as a Business Lawyer | New Lawyer Tips

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  • Опубликовано: 29 окт 2024

Комментарии • 26

  • @itsisa1319
    @itsisa1319 Год назад +2

    I’m a 5th year attorney. This is great advice and similar to the advice I’ve received along the way. It helped me keep my sanity with the annual requirement. Bill everything!

  • @trjones93
    @trjones93 2 года назад +4

    This is fantastic, clear advice. As a first year lawyer, this has been the most helpful guidance on billing I’ve received. Thanks!

    • @BrettCenkus
      @BrettCenkus  2 года назад

      You're welcome, Thomas. Thank you for your feedback.

  • @cindydownard
    @cindydownard 4 года назад +6

    I could appreciate. ."...agonized over email" 😅😅😅!!! Lololl. Clients sometimes won't understand why legal professionals use specific & detailed words...soo true. In the end ...the lawyers wording will protect them from some liabilities. ..and that's why it's soo crucial to be detailed in billing entries or any correspondence. Thank you Sir!😊

  • @djmeeyoww
    @djmeeyoww 3 года назад +3

    I found your video extremely helpful! I was a Plaintiff PI paralegal for almost ten years, and now I’m on the other side-for only two weeks! Eeek! The only experience I’ve encountered with billable hours until now, were required by the Court for attorneys’ fee motions in work comp and PIP. Do you have any advice you like to give your paralegals regarding notating their time? I definitely keep a notepad of everything I do during the day, and I enter everything into our billing software before I leave every night. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again for the informative video!

  • @bryanthompson12
    @bryanthompson12 Год назад

    Great advice

  • @jamescollins2638
    @jamescollins2638 3 года назад

    Can you do a video on how to improve at attention to detail and organization as a junior corporate associate

  • @ucsdgirl159
    @ucsdgirl159 3 года назад

    Thanks for the pointers!

  • @RTM950
    @RTM950 Год назад

    This is adequate advice for litigators also.

  • @serga7486
    @serga7486 Год назад +1

    "i learned to actually be an attorney on youtube" is something i actually want to say one day (obviously after graduating law school lol)

  • @cynthiastoner5820
    @cynthiastoner5820 3 года назад

    Very helpful tips aand time saavers. Thank you

  • @danielduerst5067
    @danielduerst5067 3 года назад

    How about billing for time trying to justify the need for a ridiculous retainer over a clear and cut case involving a fence dispute?

    • @BrettCenkus
      @BrettCenkus  3 года назад

      Any billing to justify a retainer is not okay. That said, litigation is rarely "clear and cut" since, generally speaking, each side needs to believe in the merits of their position to keep paying the legal bills. In other words, if the case is totally stacked against one party, they'd likely settle sooner than later unless one of two things are true - 1) they can't settle because they don't have the money to settle, although if they can pay their lawyers to litigate, they can usually find the money to settle, or 2) they know they have a bad position but they are so upset about how things went down that they will keep fighting based on principle. I don't see a lot of #2, although it's a thing. And when it's a thing, you should expect that the party fighting out of principle will come up with ways to make things difficult, which can turn a clear and cut case from a legal liability perspective into an administrative time (and money) suck from a practical perspective.

  • @Sampromo
    @Sampromo 3 года назад

    Good morning and thank you for the video.
    I want to open a nurse staffing agency in Pennsylvania, can you please tell me what are the states requirements ?

  • @dangbiga2231
    @dangbiga2231 4 года назад

    How much?

  • @saqaleka
    @saqaleka 4 года назад +2

    Don’t say ‘researched’ . Self education is not billable and could get struck out

    • @BrettCenkus
      @BrettCenkus  4 года назад +2

      Good suggestion. I use the term "research" sometimes, although somewhat sparingly for just this reason. If it's research that is unique, something I should not be expected to know, i.e., an issue where I think the client would understand why I don't know that, then I am not sensitive to using the term. If I am in a situation where I am sensitive to it, it's likely a non-billable situation anyway. There are times, though, where I may choose a word like "analyze" instead of research, e.g., "analyzed the difference between this statutory remedy vs. that statutory remedy). Again, for the reason that you point out. So, thank you for sharing your tip!

    • @saqaleka
      @saqaleka 4 года назад +1

      Brett Cenkus I enjoyed your video. Please make more education/motivation videos for lawyers. There does not seem to be anyone on RUclips who owns this space yet.

    • @BrettCenkus
      @BrettCenkus  4 года назад

      @@saqaleka thank you! I will keep the videos coming

  • @OK-wb1dy
    @OK-wb1dy Месяц назад

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