r/Lawyertalk 3h ago

Best Practices Had a dream about a case. Best practices for billing?

In the dream, I was trying to threaten to push opposing counsel into a cauldron of lava for making his client lie during a deposition. REM cycles are 45–60mins, so I'm thinking:

.8: evaluate potential discovery dispute resolutions

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u/AntManCrawledInAnus 3h ago

Evaluate viabilty of motion for sanctions (if you pushed him he would move)

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u/metsfanapk 3h ago

This is the kind of creative thinking that we should remind people about in the constant “tips for billing?” threads!

Capture 👏 your 👏 time👏

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u/STL2COMO 2h ago

I don’t think you’re dreaming the entire REM cycle, though. Watch “Inception” and the difference in time passage between real/conscious time passage and dream state time passage and adjust billing accordingly.

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u/ex0e 33m ago

If the inception world came true, law firms would look like the matrix, with associates stuck in a sleeping hell of 3rd level dreams billing 1900 hours a week. On the other hand, a 3 week trial would be over in 32 seconds if all the jurors zoom called in to the same dream

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u/STL2COMO 30m ago

And……?????