I am a young lawyer and have trouble meeting my hourly requirements for billing purposes. It seems almost impossible to do so. What do I do?

The question of meeting hourly billing rates or, in reality, doing substantive legal work, is a problem in this modern age. There was a study reported recently that out of an eight-hour day, lawyers are only actually able to bill two-and-a-half to three hours of time. Obviously, if one is only billing three hours out of an eight-hour day, it’s going to be very difficult to meet often the quotas of 1,800 hours or 2,000 hours of time that many firms require.

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