How many hours do most attorneys bill a week?
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 at
12:45 pm
Smita asked:
i’m applying for attorney positions and at a previous interview diet pills without a prescription i was asked how many hours did i bill a week. a lot of work i did at prior jobs was flat fee and so i didn’t know how exactly to answer the interviewer question. i took a guess and gave him a number.
i’m applying for attorney positions and at a previous interview diet pills without a prescription i was asked how many hours did i bill a week. a lot of work i did at prior jobs was flat fee and so i didn’t know how exactly to answer the interviewer question. i took a guess and gave him a number.
i want to know from some attorneys here, how many hours do you bill for a week?
They should only bill you the exact hours they spend working on your case.
The minimum acceptable is about 50.
I think most places want 2000 a year so yeah when you take out vacation, holidays, and so forth that ends up being around 50 a week.
I think it’s a bad idea to guess without admitting you’re making a guess. It’s never a positive trait when someone makes something up rather than simply admitting they didn’t have the answer. This is probably not the best way to make an impression.
For future interviews, I’d recommend that you explain that you didn’t keep track of your billable hours at your previous jobs because clients were charged a flat fee. Then you provide a good faith estimate of the amount of hours you worked on client cases every week that WOULD have been billable had the client not been charged a flat fee.