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Anthropic Jeff Bleich told a room full of Big Law lawyers to rethink their approach to billing clients. Execs from other big companies agreed.

Early in my career, I was doing well at a midsized accounting firm. But one thing struck me as absurd. There was constant pressure on my team and me to hit a certain number of billable hours — a lot ...

As with most things—it depends. "So how many hours is too many hours? Nobody can decide that for an individual," legal consultant Sharon Meit Abrahams said. Even David Sanford, chair of Sanford ...

An 1,800-billable-hours cap among well-being recommendations in NYSBA report Law firms already struggling to meet client demand, boosting associate compensation amid a talent war (Reuters) - Is ...

For decades, the billable hour has been the legal profession's sacred cow—a billing model so entrenched that many lawyers can't imagine practicing without it. But as artificial intelligence transforms ...

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