How to work in Billable Hours

How to work in Billable Hours

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Publish Date:
May 7, 2026
Category:
Business Attorneys
Video License
Standard License
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Youtube

Discover the inner workings of billable hours in the legal industry as we are joined by Megan Niedermeyer, former General Counsel & Corporate Secretary at Fivetran.

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In this event we cover:
(0:00) Speaker Introduction
(2:01) Billing vague entries
(3:58) Block billing
(7:50) Administrative tasks
(16:43) Paralegal v. Legal tasks
(18:53) Waiting until last minute to bill
(24:48) Pay attention to detail
(29:02) Bill each entry separately
(29:58) The words you use are important
(34:10) Understand your clients wants
(37:00) Bill for everything you do