This can't be right though.
Like surfing the Internet during a conference call, bill padding is the sort of activity that many lawyers do, but few will admit to.
In this year's Midlevel Associates Survey, however, 160 associates from 79 law firms -- or about 4 percent of respondents -- report that inflating their hours on time sheets is an accepted practice at their firms.... Many agree that the tendency to inflate hours is an unavoidable, albeit unfortunate, by-product of the bill-or-burn culture of big-firm life. They blame hefty billing requirements, a downturn in business, inadequate training, and the difficulty of accurately recording six-minute intervals of work.
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