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

I was a presenter to the CBA BC Branch [1] Work Life Balance Section meeting on January 21, 2010, entitled “The Lawyer Management Challenge: Attracting and Keeping Great Talent.” [2]

The content of my presentation was largely based on my earlier post [3] 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 Day in the Life [4]

View more documents [5] from Nicole Garton-Jones [6].

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?