The Challenge
Chris Nyhus struggled to get one of the paralegals in his office to increase her billable hours. “She would only bill four hours a day, although she would be working seven or eight hours on billable client work. In order to fill up a day of billable time, she ended up working overtime.”
She had already done the work. She just needed to capture that billable work that she was already doing. “It’s my determination on what gets billed, but I can’t consider billing an employee’s work if it isn’t captured.” Chris needed to provide perspective on how to enter billable hours.