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September 4, 2009
BigLaw Attorneys May Have the Labor Day Weekend Off: Results of Above the Law's 2009 Billable Hours Poll
5,255 BigLaw attorneys had enough spare time to respond to ATL's billable hours poll asking for predicted hours for 2009. "Looks like 1600 minus billers are trending up and 2400 plus billers are trending down, writes ATL's Kashmir Hill. "We think our next survey might need 1400 and 1500 hour categories." Also note the substantial increase in the number of BigLaw attorneys who actually billed less than 1600 hours in 2008 compared to their 2008 predictions and how the 2009 responses in this category are almost six times higher than 2007. 2009 responses for 2200-2299 and 2300-2399 billable hours are two and three times less than the 2007 responses. [JH]
| Billable Hours | 2007 | 2008 (Predicted) |
2008 (Actual) |
2009 (Predicted) |
| < 1600 | 3.29% | 7.93% | 14.32% | 19.4% |
| 1600 - 1699 | 2.58% | 6% | 5.75% | 7.9% |
| 1700 - 1799 | 3.99% | 5.61% | 7.36% | 8.0% |
| 1800 - 1899 | 8.45% | 7.54% | 9.37% | 11.4% |
| 1900 - 1999 | 11.5% | 16.44% | 13.6% | 12.6% |
| 2000 - 2099 | 22.54% | 21.08% | 18.11% | 13.8% |
| 2100 - 2199 | 12.68% | 14.31% | 11.11% | 9.6% |
| 2200 - 2299 | 11.03% | 6.77% | 7.98% | 5.2% |
| 2300 - 2399 | 12.44% | 5.42% | 4.64% | 4.1% |
| 2400 > | 11.5% | 8.9% | 7.76% | 8.0% |
September 4, 2009 in Law Firm News and Views, Polls | Permalink
