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0 points0cf8612b2e1e1y ago0 comments

I assume lawyers have some mechanism like this already. Law firms can require staff to allocate every 6-8 minutes of their day. Which sounds terrible and likely to be wildly inaccurate as people cannot be bothered to invest that much overhead into their job.

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joshvm1y ago

This is how Swiss medical appointments are billed. I forget exactly how granular, but it's pretty small - 5-10 minutes. As a result, you tend to be quite efficient when going to the GP, because it’s a few Francs a minute

If I retain a lawyer at $1k an hour, you bet I want 5 minute billing.

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turblety1y ago

> likely to be wildly inaccurate

My gut reaction and prejudiced against all lawyers is it's probably in the law firms interest that these are inaccurate.

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SoftTalker1y ago

If your pay depends on it, you magically become very good at it.

I hate time tracking and time sheets and all of that but at any job I had where I would not get paid without it, it got done.

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