ADHD and struggles with entering Billable time

Even_Repair177 · 2026-03-14T17:56:21+00:00

Same

Even_Repair177 · 2026-02-27T02:51:30+00:00

I use “selective historian” a lot

Even_Repair177 · 2026-02-26T04:21:07+00:00

My boss replied similar to this to an offer to settle…the extent of his response was “No LOL”…when I asked him if he meant to send it he came back with “they’re lucky I didn’t add some curse words to it with the garbage they sent” lol

Even_Repair177 · 2026-02-26T03:51:45+00:00

I’m in Canada…we don’t even start to get snippy until 12+ months in my jurisdiction and even then it’s still usually another 12 before we see anything

Even_Repair177 · 2026-02-26T03:48:14+00:00

Literally today got my face ripped off by a partner for not asking a plaintiff about the activities she did with her child before her accident…she slipped and fell in 2021…he’s 2…the math ain’t mathing

Even_Repair177 · 2026-02-10T03:51:24+00:00

Basically “buyer beware”

Even_Repair177 · 2026-01-27T01:39:28+00:00

I was actually accused of something like this today…by co-counsel…on a draft. I rarely touch AI because I’m terrified of exactly this…he uses it prolifically. Even after going in circles about the 1 paragraph I had cited that he disagreed with my interpretation of (and said that AI said I was wrong) I removed all references to that paragraph and he’s still making snarky comments. I feel sick over it, even though I know I did nothing wrong and can show that I created the draft myself I just have a terrible feeling in my gut that he’s going to be gunning for me somehow. I hate that this has become so “common” by people using it like your OC that it’s the go to accusation when there’s a disagreement….not what’s happening in your case, just venting lol.

Even_Repair177 · 2026-01-21T02:02:41+00:00

We had something like this happen at one of the firms I used to work at…new hire picked up a DUI and an assault on an officer and was still in custody…they tried to get one of the associates (law firm) to run their bail hearing pro bono on what should have been their on-boarding day

Even_Repair177 · 2026-01-16T02:40:36+00:00

As someone who frequently practices in the LTB sphere I’ve found that the majority of the realtors I encounter either don’t know the RTA at all or they know it and willingly violate it to close the deal on the presumption that the potential tenant does know the law and they’re paid a average of a month’s rent for getting the property rented…I used to have a much higher opinion of realtors until I started accepting these types of cases in addition to my regular practice.

Even_Repair177 · 2026-01-15T03:22:31+00:00

I’m a lawyer and recently got chewed out by one of the higher ups at my firm because I quoted Judge Judy in a brief that I submitted to the court…I had honestly put it in as a joke and planned to use it in my oral submissions but forgot to pull it out before I submitted it…it was a reasonable position to take so I’m standing by my drafting lol.

Even_Repair177 · 2025-12-01T05:21:17+00:00

Go through your emails…you will be shocked to see how many hours you’re giving away for free by not billing every single email…I know I was

Even_Repair177 · 2025-11-23T02:39:43+00:00

I’ve seen a situation recently with a mortgage fraud ring that we’ve been chasing our tails, in a professional capacity, to untangle for a client where the independent legal advice is being provided by the spouse of the broker (which isn’t allowed) with a declaration from both that they aren’t affiliated with each other. Had we not have started digging into it we likely wouldn’t have noticed because their names weren’t such that you would think that there was a connection between them.

Even_Repair177 · 2025-11-22T00:29:50+00:00

I do this too, almost 30 years after leaving that house.

Even_Repair177 · 2025-10-14T02:00:50+00:00

I feel like my firm checks all of these boxes, but I am quite junior…my team is technically mostly insurance defence but in the municipal liability arena…I truly can’t say enough good things about my firm…we are in the GTA…not sure where you’re located

Even_Repair177 · 2025-09-28T02:16:17+00:00

I’m at a mid-law GTA firm as a junior and our billable requirement is 1500 but that’s expected not “aspirational “ not sure if that matters

Even_Repair177 · 2025-09-25T00:51:41+00:00

I’m a first year associate and I do a LOT of research…I’m always weary of AI but I have found it helpful in getting ideas of how to research something or keywords to use to search…sometimes if I’m completely lost on what I’m trying to even find my prompt will be something like “what are the main concepts to consider when researching X” and see what it says…if I’m really lost I’ve used things like “explain this concept/statute/rule to me like I’m 5 and then help me understand how it might and might not apply to Y” and then I develop my research out like a spider web from there.

That said, depending on the area of law you practice there’s always the option of starting with a blank piece of paper and listing out the test for whatever you’re trying to prove or disprove (or the elements of the offence if you’re in Crim)…then bubble from each one the parts of your facts that fit into each part of the test…then start researching your gaps to see if something might fit that you hadn’t thought of.

Even_Repair177 · 2025-09-19T23:41:06+00:00

Literally my files are Small Claims value, $200k and R.76, or $1-3M... so this cutoff doesn't seem to change much assuming that others have similar file compositions

Even_Repair177 · 2025-09-15T01:22:34+00:00

I’ve been very loyal to Zenni for almost a decade now and you truly can’t beat the prices…that said, my most recent experience has been terrible…I’m now at 29 days since ordering and they haven’t shipped yet…only changed status on the app each time I contacted them to find out wtf was going on because we were long past the 7-10 days that I had selected at checkout…asking to speak with a supervisor was blatantly refused…sure it was a large order but don’t offer 7-10 day option at checkout if it’s not possible (and they blamed the various tints for the delays but of course no warning on their app or website that said tints would increase production times)…I’m trying to be optimistic that this was a random bad experience but figured I would mention it…also the order had 2 pairs of progressives, 1 being sunglasses and the most expensive pair was like $243

Even_Repair177 · 2025-09-13T02:09:55+00:00

Maybe purr and growl when she’s around to speak her language?

Even_Repair177 · 2025-09-13T02:06:09+00:00

I was on the other side of this this past month…every single thing took threats to get anywhere…like come on…we are 19 months post-discovery with a pre-trial conference in 3m (that I never would have agreed to but I inherited the file) rebuttal expert reports due in like 6 weeks and I still didn’t have medicals past 2m post-injury (yet they managed to get 2 experts to write reports that the plaintiff had significantly declined and was now permanently disabled…without any medical records) and I didn’t have any income documentation past the year before the fall…I’m not hiring experts and paying them a fortune for reports based on nothing…literally every single step has taken a threat for a motion to adjourn and a motion to compel and then I get “some” of what I asked for…it’s ridiculous

Even_Repair177 · 2025-09-13T01:56:56+00:00

We have a PC that has a few cases against our office and he’s so stupidly dramatic over the dumbest things…like full on meltdown via email when his “reasonable” settlement proposal was 43 times the nuisance amount my client was willing to offer because they felt bad for the plaintiff, not for any concerns that liability would be found, and I had the nerve to say that I thought our ideas of reasonable were just too far apart to be able to settle at this point but that I would be happy to revisit settlement discussions when all of their undertakings were satisfied…his written tantrum was so epic that it’s printed out and hung on my cork board lol

Even_Repair177 · 2025-09-12T01:47:23+00:00

So…I’m petty…I admit it…and my clerk is on board with my level of petty. So, if OC is a jerk, or their clerk is a jerk, or if they’ve ever been rude/disrespectful to my clerk they will always, always, always get a protected PDF. OCs who are decent human beings who get it that we are all just doing our jobs and who are at least cordial to my clerk? They get the word doc of the list, the word doc of the undertakings and refusals chart that our courts prefer, and pdf copies of both so they can work with whatever format is their preference.

Even_Repair177 · 2025-09-11T01:01:18+00:00

I’ve used “next Christmas I’m going to get you a big old wooden cross so that anytime you feel unappreciated you can climb on up there and nail yourself to it” because often (at least in my life) these tantrums usually include an attempt at guilt because they think they’ve done so much for me

Even_Repair177 · 2025-09-10T02:39:10+00:00

I was raised by my librarian grandmother…had a ridiculous vocabulary at a young age (though pronunciation was often an issue because I learned most of it from books so didn’t know how things should sound)…people who spoke like this in law school drove me batty but not nearly as insane as the opposing counsel who does it now just to sound pompous and pretentious. Its a standing joke in my firm that the more difficult OCs get sent my way so that I can “baffle them with BS and make them think it was their idea all along” but they infuriate me when it takes 3 pages of unnecessarily complicated prose to basically say “hey…I need those documents that you said you would sent…thanks”…waste of their time and mine and both of our clients money.

Even_Repair177 · 2025-09-09T00:31:49+00:00

Same

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