Lawyer Bills 36-Hour Day As Einstein's Theories Meet Law Firm Management

Lawyer Bills 36-Hour Day As Einstein's Theories Meet Law Firm Management

Of all the reasons to kill off the billable hour — and advancing AI technology presents a big one — let us not sleep on the prospect of putting an end to lazy record-keeping. In the heat of lawyerly battle, no one does a particularly great job of tracking all their time. And that’s when lawyers start reconstructing the work in their mind and lose track of details about “deadlines” or “meetings” or “the time-space continuum.” The city of Broken H…