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How do you record your billable AI chat time?

Time spent chatting or using other AI tools for legal analys...
Rough-skinned Olive Haunted Graveyard
  06/04/26
It’s just another tool. Do you ever list Microsoft off...
galvanic feces
  06/04/26
...
Avocado Field Roommate
  06/04/26
yes
Henna self-centered candlestick maker
  06/04/26
Nope. But sometimes I see kooky in-house lawyers who go out ...
Rough-skinned Olive Haunted Graveyard
  06/05/26
It’s usually paralegals or similar types reviewing inv...
Smoker
  06/06/26
>are very often billable time when is it NOT billable ...
Avocado Field Roommate
  06/04/26
argue with AI that 12 cases in draft brief are hallucinated ...
Avocado Field Roommate
  06/04/26
Same way I do with time wasted on xo.
metal wagecucks weed whacker
  06/04/26
wasted???
Henna self-centered candlestick maker
  06/04/26
Well, at least in the context of value provided to clients
metal wagecucks weed whacker
  06/04/26
???????
Henna self-centered candlestick maker
  06/04/26
Yeah it's kind of like the sound of one hand clapping. Hard ...
metal wagecucks weed whacker
  06/05/26
i record it as however long it wouldve taken me to do it. so...
obsidian jap
  06/04/26
...
Rough-skinned Olive Haunted Graveyard
  06/05/26
...
Bellevue therapy dog tp
  06/06/26
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Bellevue therapy dog tp
  06/06/26


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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:12 PM
Author: Rough-skinned Olive Haunted Graveyard

Time spent chatting or using other AI tools for legal analysis, document drafting, and the like are very often billable time. Does anyone specifically mention that it's AI time?

I don't. I record it as analysis, drafting, research strategy, whatever.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2#49915026)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:14 PM
Author: galvanic feces

It’s just another tool. Do you ever list Microsoft office or westlaw specifically?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2#49915028)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:18 PM
Author: Avocado Field Roommate



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:29 PM
Author: Henna self-centered candlestick maker

yes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2#49915061)



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Date: June 5th, 2026 12:28 PM
Author: Rough-skinned Olive Haunted Graveyard

Nope. But sometimes I see kooky in-house lawyers who go out of their way to say things like, "I wouldn't even consider outside counsel who don't use AI to be more efficient." It made me wonder whether lawyers were using time records to address things like that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2#49916855)



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Date: June 6th, 2026 1:52 PM
Author: Smoker

It’s usually paralegals or similar types reviewing invoices

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2#49918634)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:18 PM
Author: Avocado Field Roommate

>are very often billable time

when is it NOT billable time?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2#49915040)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:20 PM
Author: Avocado Field Roommate

argue with AI that 12 cases in draft brief are hallucinated (7.2)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2#49915049)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:22 PM
Author: metal wagecucks weed whacker

Same way I do with time wasted on xo.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2#49915057)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:29 PM
Author: Henna self-centered candlestick maker

wasted???

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2#49915062)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:35 PM
Author: metal wagecucks weed whacker

Well, at least in the context of value provided to clients

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2#49915080)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:58 PM
Author: Henna self-centered candlestick maker

???????

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2#49915178)



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Date: June 5th, 2026 3:13 PM
Author: metal wagecucks weed whacker

Yeah it's kind of like the sound of one hand clapping. Hard yl wrap your head around two equally worthless activates for my client but one they pay me a lot for. Although they unwittingly pay for both.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2#49916960)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:38 PM
Author: obsidian jap

i record it as however long it wouldve taken me to do it. so, usually = time using AI x 10.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2#49915087)



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Date: June 5th, 2026 12:30 PM
Author: Rough-skinned Olive Haunted Graveyard



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2#49916857)



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Date: June 6th, 2026 1:53 PM
Author: Bellevue therapy dog tp



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2#49918637)



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Date: June 6th, 2026 1:53 PM
Author: Bellevue therapy dog tp

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871058&forum_id=2#49918638)