710c Hours Worked Data

Hours Worked Data
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING ML “HOURS WORKED” DATA ENTRY FORM AND UNDERSTANDING ML “HOURS WORKED” DATA

Other Office Information

Column D is the maximum amount of hours you may bill clients.

1.  New Hours Worked entries should be made each evening after you have entered your daily Charges while your memory is fresh.  As an alternative, you can make a new Hours Worked entry for the last day that you made Charges at a later date but it must be made in the proper date order and before you can make new Charges.

2.  If you delayed entering charges and somehow seem locked out of entering charges and/or entering Hours Worked, you probably skipped a date entering Hours Worked.  So look at your Hours Worked entries for the last few days and probably the last one needs its date edited:  Under “Options” on the rightmost column, select “Edit” and decreasing the date by one day or what seems appropriate may work.  Otherwise, call Chantel for help.

3.  If you delayed entering charges that you want to now make for more than 1 previous date:

        a.  enter or ensure you have entered Hours Worked for the last date Charges were entered
        b.  enter next date’s Charges
        c.  enter Hours Worked for the next date that Charges were made
        d.  enter next date’s Charges
        e.  repeat steps “c” and “d” as necessary to catch up.

4.  When you “Add New Hours Worked”, you cannot input a number lower than the hours charged.  But if you back bill (for example if today you entered charge(s) for a prior day), then ML will erroneously show that you billed more than you worked. On “Hours Worked”, edit such entries and make Column D = Column F, or Ray will do it by the end of each semester.

5.  An office premise is that Legal Staffers (to some extent) can control their own workloads.  There generally are enough Clients and work to allow this.  Performance based pay and our Awards Program along with Legal Staff’s generous cooperation has created a very powerful business model that benefits everyone.  “Hours Worked” is a Modelaw tool taking Users about 1 minute a day to be able to track their Hours Worked furthering cases, Hours Billed, and Billing Efficiency.

6.  Although lost unbillable time for various reasons occurs regularly, billing at least 80% of hours spent furthering cases is a reasonable minimum goal.  Awards are given for monthly Hours Worked Column F > 80% and Performance Pay is enhanced when the lookback semester Hours Worked Column F > 80%.

The basic assumption in the calculations is that Billing Staffers should be able to bill 80% of the hours they work in furthering cases.  Hard at work for 7.5 hours a day furthering cases should produce 7.5 x 80%  =  6 hours of billing. That (6) hours of billing per day times 233 normal workdays a year  =  1,398 hours per year including 198 hours at time and a half pay.

Obviously working more hours will increase your pay, but billing more of the “lost” hours can be easier and fairer to yourself than merely working more hours while continuing to give away hours worked.  Ultimately it is your call how many hours you work and how many hours you bill unless you get legitimate Client complaints. There is room for more aggressive billing. This “Hours Worked” report can help guide you and help remind you to bill, to bill more efficiently, and to bill more aggressively.

The dollars in pay that you personally lost or gained at bottom of Column J should not be in red (which means $ lost).

Approved creative accounting methods to improve your Column F “% of Worked”:
  1.  For weekdays, when you “Add New Hours Worked”, you cannot input a number that is below 7:30, but when you work > 7:30 you can input the actual hours charged instead of a higher number that you may have actually worked.
  2.  For Saturdays or Sundays, when you “Add New Hours Worked”, you can input a number that is below 7:30, and you can enter the actual hours charged instead of a higher number that you may have actually worked.
  3.  If you work > 7:30 on a holiday that is also a weekday, when you “Add New Hours Worked”, you can input the actual hours charged instead of a higher number that you may have actually worked.
  4.  If you work < 7:30 on a holiday that is also a weekday, you may bill it as if you worked it on the next weekday and you can add client notes on the charges explaining that the work was done on the holiday date.
  5.  For vacation, sick, or personal weekdays that you were expecting to be taking off, if you inputed charges < 01:00, you may bill it as if you worked it on the next weekday and you can add client notes on the charges explaining that the work was actually done on a vacation day.
These are acceptable ways to improve your Column F, Actual Hr:min Charged as a % of Hours Worked, because your overall hours charged are being compared to expected hours charged, not actual hours charged.

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