Concerning the Passage of Time

September 11, 2009 9:41 AM

ne of the important yet tedious things that many lawyers have to do is keep track of their time. For many attorneys, life is measured by the tenth of an hour.

There are many ways to keep track of one's billable time, from fancy computer programs to just making it all up. My method isn't technologically advanced, but I think it's fairly accurate: every day, I take a blank page in a legal pad and write the date at the top. I note the client's name, the time I started working, the time I stopped working, and what I was doing. On Monday morning, I input the previous week's totals into whatever document or database they have to go into.

Today, I wrote the date at the top of my blank page, and I still felt a quick rush of sadness, anger, and loss.

1 Comments

The Reeg said:

Yup. I kinda teared up when I turned my cell phone alarm off Friday morning and saw the date.

September 13, 2009 9:22 PM

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