Collaboration needed to see off big law’s billable hour obsession
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Collaboration needed to see off big law’s billable hour obsession

Max Walters
November 24, 2022
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Law firms’ reliance on billable hours is hampering diversity and wellbeing, suggests INTA, but both sides of the profession must club together to enact change

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