Advice for Keeping Your Law Firm Job

Make sure to keep up your billable hours (free subscription required). Seems like old fashioned advice since hourly billing is under attack right now.

But until the law firm model truly changes, your survival in a downturn depends on your ability to show that you are generating sufficient revenues for your firm.

While anyone who understands the practice of law knows that hours billed are not a good measure of true productivity, for now, that is the metric that counts at most firms.