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by rhino369 1614 days ago
If the firm was billing his time, he'd have to create a billing log. You generally can't get away with billing for IT. But you can bill for "litigation support" which is the intersection of IT and litigation. Though its much more involved than just uploading files to an FTP.
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Melatonic 1614 days ago
Depends how shady the firm is :-)

Also for probably any litigation that is IT related you could probably get away with a lot more

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rhino369 1614 days ago
Firms navigate this by making the employees fill out their own billing entries. If OP is filling out fraudulent billing entries then that would explain why nobody is checking up on him. If he's billed out, his real work output is billed-hours.
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OJFord 1614 days ago
No reason (to need, in this situation) for the automated program to run faster than a human. The right hours billed to a human instead of the human's computer is.. not quite so fraudulent?
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