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:
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?