by John Grisham
John Grisham teaches about billable hours:
This is a really interesting look at how big law firms use and abuse associates. An associate is a new law school graduate with little experience with the firm. Of course, these rookies are presented with significant challenges to weed out those who are not strong enough. The entire time this process is going on, the associates are racking up billable hours. The most important goal for an associate seems to be racking up the highest number of billable hours possible. This allows the law firm to charge their clients huge amounts. The more associates they can use in this way only increases their profit.
There is a similar abuse of billable hours by the partners of the firm. They actually believe that the company expects to be billed at a certain rate, less it looks like they are not working hard to support the client.
John Grisham writes quite a novel.
Don't get me wrong. This book is really good and the plot is more than enough to keep your attention. A young lawyer has his life turned upside down when he is blackmailed over an earlier indiscretion. This associate must be creative in attempts to save his neck and hopefully save his job. Somethings work out, and some things don't Read it and find out.
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