When an attorney
gives me a draft of her written work to review (either at my request or hers),
do I keep my time by referring to the case in the ATTY categories or do I go
under the SUPE01 category?
Answer:
In this example, the
supervisor should bill to an ATTY code. He or she is contributing to the active
defense of a case, a core function of the office that should be a billing
priority. If the supervisor was giving general advice to a junior attorney
about trial presentation tactics or oral argument tips (as part of career or
staff development) that would be billed under SUPE01. If appropriate, however,
the supervision should still be billed to a client, if a case is the context of
that discussion..
