One gripe I always had about practice is that so much of your time is spent on "non-money making activities". For example, discovery responses, motion practice, 50h's, preliminary conferences, status conferences, client statuses, compliance conferences, and many other parts of litigation, while necessary are not true "money making" activities. How much of one's time is truly spent negotiating settlements, arbitrating, mediating, attending pre-trials or trying cases? A lot less time than you would think.
So what activity "takes the cake" as the least desirable? Compliance conference in the City Part, a 3'oclock Friday afternoon discovery motion, a compliance conference where you know you're going to get reamed for not supplying authorizations....Well you get the point.
To me the worst was the walkin, smelly, drunk client who comes in on a Friday afternoon at 4:30 for a status update. What do you think?
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