Quick and dirty (but not outright defrauding anyone) in Amsterdam airport: Re: our recent post on who benefits and do does not–which made a few commmenters (usually anonymous) a bit unhinged–look at the comments. Consider the main subject of this site (Clients). Then assume that law firms are not committing major interstate mail and wire fraud by billing out all associate time at their full nominal rates (which my firm could not do without losing our entire client base and/or then going to jail).
Final Score: Associates 90, Firms 10, Clients 0.
Two first years relax after a day of thinking, researching, writing, cite-checking and proofreading, as more senior lawyers stay late to re-do their work, and then write off time.