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Everything You Need to Know About Billable Hours

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In the legal industry, billable hours are the time a lawyer spends on tasks for a client. This can include conducting research, drafting legal documents, preparing for trials, and other substantive work. You can charge the time spent on these tasks to the client.

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Streamlining Legal Practice: The Power of Simplifying Workflows in 2024

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Client intake procedures with redundancies mean that multiple employees may end up duplicating their efforts as they onboard clients, which is highly inefficient. Duplicate legal research can result from a lack of streamlined research workflows, further wasting time and resources (and potentially leading to client dissatisfaction , if they’re paying (..)