Staffing guidelines specify permitted timekeeper levels for defined tasks, limit attendance at depositions, hearings, and conferences to one biller, restrict partner performance of associate-level work, and address the use of contract attorneys and paralegals.
Deviations require advance approval.
Alternative Names:
Staffing Requirements, Staffing Restrictions
Why it Matters?
The single-biller rule for events is the provision generating the most write-downs, since second-chairing a deposition or bringing an associate to a hearing produces time that will not be paid without prior approval. The rules also constrain training, because the junior attorney whose development would benefit from observing cannot bill for it. Firms handle this by absorbing the cost rather than seeking approval that is rarely granted.
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