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Do the Number of Hours Billed a Year Determine Whether Someone is a Good Lawyer?

By Nicole Garton-Jones

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I was a presenter to the CBA BC Branch Work Life Balance Section meeting on January 21, 2010, entitled “The Lawyer Management Challenge: Attracting and Keeping Great Talent.”

The content of my presentation was largely based on my earlier post on Slaw on “How Virtual Law Firms Attract and Retain Great Legal Talent.”

The key three slides of my presentation set out a side by side comparison of the schedule and compensation of an associate working for a traditional law firm versus a contract lawyer working for Heritage Law:

A question from the floor was: Can you be a good lawyer if you are only billing 1200 hours a year?

What do people think?

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on January 24, 2010 (boomark / email).

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