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Is the BlackBerry Cutting into Billable Time?
SOURCE
The Globe and Mail
AUTHOR
Marzena Czarnecka
DATE
September 3, 2008
The headline says it all. How are lawyers dealing with the BlackBerry phenomenon? In this article published in The Globe and Mail, Allyson Whyte Nowak of the Intellectual Property Group explains how changes in technology affect the way she deals with clients.
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This story is also featured in Lexpert's October issue.
Excerpt
The effect of the BlackBerry on how she works has been considerable. But it hasn't changed the way she dockets time.
"On the billing side, I don't think anything has changed with the new technology," Ms. Whyte Nowak says. "We're trained to capture our time in 0.25, 0.5 increments. Recently I was in Ottawa for two days, and did all of my communication off my BlackBerry. I always bring my docket sheet with me, and whether I had been working off my laptop or my BlackBerry, when I do something substantive, I docket it."
"If you ever go back and try to recreate your day two days later in 0.25 and 0.5 increments - it's impossible," she says. "You know it's a better practice to do your dockets as you go."
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