Top 5 Summer Tips: Billing Clients/Entering Time

Summary

This practice note outlines five practical tips you can use as a summer associate to help you in billing clients and entering your time. An often tedious but always important task, timekeeping is an essential element to the bottom line of any successful law practice. It's never too early to develop solid habits around the fundamentals of accurate and routine time entry, and your summer associate position is the perfect time to begin that process. The following tips will help you catch on to this skill early on in your career and look great to both law firm leadership as well as clients.