{"id":113948,"date":"2025-04-07T21:04:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T05:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/07\/thank-you-for-inventing-the-billable-hour\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T21:04:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T05:04:37","slug":"thank-you-for-inventing-the-billable-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/07\/thank-you-for-inventing-the-billable-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You For Inventing The Billable Hour!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-1218283510-620x413.jpg?resize=620%2C413&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1128865\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>The billable hour is not the natural state of legal billing. In fact, it wasn\u2019t invented until after World War I, when Reginald Heber Smith proposed to move his firm to the model \u2014 setting up a system around 6 minute increments because \u201cI can more easily add, subtract, and divide on the decimal system.\u201d Which firm did Smith manage as he invented the billable hour and changed the profession?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: The firm has changed names, but still thrives and is currently pushing back against the Trump administration. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See\u00a0the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/04\/thank-you-for-inventing-the-billable-hour\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thank You For Inventing The Billable Hour!<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-1218283510-620x413.jpg?resize=620%2C413&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1128865\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>The billable hour is not the natural state of legal billing. In fact, it wasn\u2019t invented until after World War I, when Reginald Heber Smith proposed to move his firm to the model \u2014 setting up a system around 6 minute increments because \u201cI can more easily add, subtract, and divide on the decimal system.\u201d Which firm did Smith manage as he invented the billable hour and changed the profession?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: The firm has changed names, but still thrives and is currently pushing back against the Trump administration. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See\u00a0the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/04\/thank-you-for-inventing-the-billable-hour\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/04\/thank-you-for-inventing-the-billable-hour\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The billable hour is not the natural state of legal billing. In fact, it wasn\u2019t invented until after World War I, when Reginald Heber Smith proposed to move his firm to the model \u2014 setting up a system around 6 minute increments because \u201cI can more easily add, subtract, and divide on the decimal system.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":113912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1218283510-620x413-eVwKqB.jpeg?fit=620%2C413&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}