Janet Gaymer quote: "The emphasis on 'billable hours' and achieving a potential figure is leading to a belief that the firm doesn't care. The casualties of billable hours are feedback, supervision and time to talk, and all the things that make professional life pleasurable."

We are looking at alternatives and a complete rewrite of the way we employ lawyers in terms of hours...
JANET GAYMER

This is a complete misrepresentation of what work is like. It is not true anymore, but is an old-fas...
JANET GAYMER

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportu...
JANET JACKSON

One of the problems in America is that everybody focuses on their own narrow little bit of the probl...
JANET RENO

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.
JANET FITCH

We're all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and...
JANET JACKSON

Our ability to predict how the federal funds rate will evolve over time is quite limited because mon...
JANET YELLEN

Financial market participants appear to recognize the FOMC's data-dependent approach because inc...
JANET YELLEN

there is very little 'of course' when it comes to custom
JANET KAGAN

You have no tail!" said Brightspot. her own whipped suddenly forward; she stared, first at it, then ...
JANET KAGAN

Kagan's law of first contact,'You'll surprise you more than they will.
JANET KAGAN

Stores don't order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and ...
JANET YELLEN

The first job I ever had in my life was in the Dade County Sheriff's Office in the Identificatio...
JANET RENO

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it take...
JANET FLANNER

Carry on, carry on, for the men and boys are gone, But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the wome...
JANET BEGBIE

By putting downward pressure on interest rates, the Fed is trying to make financial conditions more ...
JANET YELLEN

I'm particularly fond of the Mulholland Fountain, at Riverside Drive and Los Feliz Boulevard, wh...
JANET FITCH

I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told an...
JANET JACKSON

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it...
JANET FRAME

I love my kids, but I wouldn't want them for friends.
JANET SORENSEN

My father, that silhouette, a form comprised of all I did not
know, a shape filled with rain. "...
JANET FITCH

Isn't it funny.I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. ...
JANET FITCH

 Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul roo...
JANET FITCH

Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on...
JANET FITCH

Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom ...
JANET FITCH

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.
JANET MALCOLM

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that ...
JANET MALCOLM

The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fear...
JANET MALCOLM

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He...
JANET JACKSON

What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for ot...
JANET FITCH

I have a spelling checker
It came with my PC;
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I can...
JANET MINOR

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.
JANET GUTHRIE

Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have t...
JANET GUTHRIE

It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little momen...
JANET GUTHRIE

I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing would...
JANET FITCH

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruct...
JANET FRAME

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room t...
JANET FITCH

It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.
JANET FITCH

My hatred gives me strength.
JANET FITCH

Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the l...
JANET FRAME

This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.
JANET FITCH

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qu...
JANET MALCOLM

Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.
JANET LONG

Under a death penalty statute that is going to stand up to constitutional muster, you look at the ag...
JANET RENO

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children c...
JANET NAPOLITANO

It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break fre...
JANET JACKSON

While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require go...
JANET YELLEN

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.
JANET ECHELMAN

American workers have faced serious difficulties in the labor market since the first oil shock in 19...
JANET YELLEN

The financial crisis and the Great Recession demonstrated, in a dramatic and unmistakable manner, ho...
JANET YELLEN

I think police officers can work with social workers and public health nurses to do so much in terms...
JANET RENO

The pace of increases in labor compensation provides another possible indicator, albeit an imperfect...
JANET YELLEN

Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe an...
JANET NAPOLITANO

After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 ...
JANET YELLEN

If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.
JANET JACKSON

Transparency concerning the Federal Reserve's conduct of monetary policy is desirable because be...
JANET YELLEN

Business students are very oriented to playing a role in the real world and accomplishing something,...
JANET YELLEN

Being a lawyer is not merely a vocation. It is a public trust, and each of us has an obligation to g...
JANET RENO

I have learned that raising children is the single most difficult thing in the world to do. It takes...
JANET RENO

Although we work through financial markets, our goal is to help Main Street, not Wall Street.
JANET YELLEN

The great thing about this town hall format is that it allows us to hear what's on the minds of ...
JANET NAPOLITANO

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to wor...
JANET JACKSON

The keystone to justice is the belief that the legal system treats all fairly.
JANET RENO

We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence i...
JANET RENO

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much e...
JANET SUZMAN

Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
JANET FITCH

But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living...
JANET SUZMAN

Do and act on what you believe to be right, and you'll wake up the next morning feeling good abo...
JANET RENO

A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. Y...
JANET FITCH

My mother was an enthusiastic chef but wildly disorganized, and often preferred purchasing yet anoth...
JANET FITCH

You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your...
JANET JACKSON

I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat l...
JANET FITCH

My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Ald...
JANET FITCH

The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it wo...
JANET FITCH

Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should ...
JANET EVANOVICH

add one
make dumb
add two
make poo
JANET HUTCH

I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That ...
JANET FITCH

I have no clue why, but maybe sometimes when there's someone you don't hear from, it's t...
JANET JACKSON

Dad's on a fishing boat in front of Carter's estate. If we get into trouble, all I have to do is pre...
JANET EVANOVICH

Policies to strengthen education and training, to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and to ...
JANET YELLEN

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we...
JANET NAPOLITANO

If I could just get Broom to cooperate, we could fly, Glo said. Then we wouldn't have to worry about...
JANET EVANOVICH

I collected child support in Dade County, and they wrote a rap song about me, so the kids knew about...
JANET RENO

I am anxious to fix welfare. There has to be more training and child care.
JANET YELLEN

I'm a scuba diver but not certified.
JANET RENO

In the long run, outsourcing is another form of trade that benefits the U.S. economy by giving us ch...
JANET YELLEN

I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lie...
JANET FITCH

The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if t...
JANET FITCH

I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses.
JANET FRAME

All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the pu...
JANET NAPOLITANO

Audit the Fed is a bill that would politicize monetary policy, would bring short-term political pres...
JANET YELLEN

I want to be completely clear that I strongly oppose 'Audit the Fed.'
JANET YELLEN

I made a promise to myself when I graduated from law school that I would never do anything that I di...
JANET RENO

You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our ...
JANET NAPOLITANO

Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of...
JANET FITCH

Though the Attorney General of the United States carries many responsibilities and undertakes many t...
JANET RENO

While I'm the Attorney General, we will address each issue with one question: What's the rig...
JANET RENO

Many financial innovations such as the increased availability of low-cost mutual funds have improved...
JANET YELLEN

Monetary policy ultimately must be conducted in a pragmatic manner that relies not on any particular...
JANET YELLEN

We have at least 125 communities in Arizona at risk from wildfire, not because of review processes o...
JANET NAPOLITANO

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware ...
JANET FITCH

In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Divisi...
JANET YELLEN

My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no one was around I'd ...
JANET JACKSON

My mother taught us to play baseball, to bake a cake, to play fair - she beat the living daylights o...
JANET RENO

I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a...
JANET SUZMAN

Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I fin...
JANET ECHELMAN

What good is telling America's children that they will have equal opportunity for education if t...
JANET RENO

Like 'Metro' and 'Motor,' 'Troublemaker' is written in first person. The onl...
JANET EVANOVICH

This is a beautiful country. Each of us has a favorite river, a mountain, just a patch of sky for so...
JANET RENO

Bitch."
"Slut."
"Whore."
"Cunt."
I kicked Joyce in the shin. I draw the line at ...
JANET EVANOVICH

His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with hi...
JANET FITCH

I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.
JANET FITCH

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guita...
JANET FITCH

To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have b...
JANET JACKSON

Two Trees
A portion of your soul has been
entwined with mine
A gentle kind of togethe...
JANET MILES

I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Ta...
JANET FITCH

The advice I like to give to drummers is that there's no right or wrong way of playing the drums...
JANET WEISS

We've got to make sure that the young, violent, serious juvenile offender is punished, that it&#...
JANET RENO

Here's a basic difference between Morelli and me. My first thought was always of cake. His first tho...
JANET EVANOVICH

Everybody should want to make sure that we have the cyber tools necessary to investigate cyber crime...
JANET RENO

A wide range of possible fiscal policy tools and approaches could enhance the cyclical stability of ...
JANET YELLEN

While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to in...
JANET FITCH

For lunch, we drove into the hills and parked in the dappled shade of a big sycamore, its powdery wh...
JANET FITCH

He just wanted to stand close to her, touch her hair that was white as glacier milk...
JANET FITCH

You must find a boy your own age. Someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will trem...
JANET FITCH

When you're a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of ...
JANET MCTEER

It certainly would be helpful going forward for deficit reduction efforts to focus on the medium ter...
JANET YELLEN

Firms don't just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there ...
JANET YELLEN

It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they ...
JANET MCTEER

Say yes to your Universe.
JANET ZUCKERMAN

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
JANET RENO

I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PC;It plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've...
JANET MINOR

"For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own dest...
JANET FRAME

I am extremely proud of the way our staff handled the incident but I am upset it happened. Victim su...
JANET ANDERSON

Without the Milosevic trial the court has lost the possibility of finding a conclusion to the questi...
JANET ANDERSON

It's just really unfortunate that there seems to be shortsightedness in this whole situation.
JANET ANDERSON

The crucial thing for genocide is that you have to show a special kind of intent to implement genoci...
JANET ANDERSON

The people who use (the vouchers) really like them, and some of them start calling us around now won...
JANET ALLEN

That's what we put up with here. We don't need that type of stuff here.
JANET ALLEN

I look forward to seeing (the festival) with great enthusiasm and with fingers crossed that it can r...
JANET ALLEN

Ermine is going in the right direction. Someone needs to go through the park every day.
JANET ALLEN

Sam lit up every room she was in.
JANET ALLEN

The issues seem to be the changing environment that we live in. There's much more access to in-home ...
JANET ALLEN

This has been very stressful for the people involved, particularly for class representatives who had...
JANET ABARAY

They didn't want to include that provision in the original document because they were afraid it woul...
JANET ABARAY

I've been contacted by some (ticket holders).
JANET ABARAY

These are material changes of the contract. We've won (that issue) twice already.
JANET ABARAY

As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology...
JANET NAPOLITANO

Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. ...
JANET NAPOLITANO

If we were to raise interest rates too steeply, and we were to trigger a downturn or contribute to a...
JANET YELLEN

It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who we...
JANET SUZMAN

There are those who profess to support law enforcement but who have attempted to undermine the effor...
JANET RENO

Peer mediation is a chance for students to work with other students to help them resolve problems, a...
JANET RENO

A womans mistakes are different from a girls
JANET FITCH

By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it ...
JANET JACKSON

I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It w...
JANET JACKSON

Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness whi...
JANET SUZMAN

Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched....
JANET FITCH

My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across Am...
JANET RENO

I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping cen...
JANET EVANOVICH

Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different. --Stephanie Plum
JANET EVANOVICH

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.
JANET FLANNER

"For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destru...
JANET FRAME

In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What ...
JANET FITCH

You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jum...
JANET FITCH

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or d...
JANET FRAME

I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist ...
JANET SUZMAN

People tend to put entertainers on pedestals. We're human beings, just like you. You may see us ...
JANET JACKSON

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.
JANET FRAME

Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United State...
JANET NAPOLITANO

Schools can do extraordinary things given the chance; teachers can do remarkable things if we elimin...
JANET RENO

But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. ...
JANET NAPOLITANO

Models used to describe and predict inflation commonly distinguish between changes in food and energ...
JANET YELLEN

Because food and energy prices are volatile, it is often helpful to look at inflation excluding thos...
JANET YELLEN

Household spending growth has been particularly solid in 2015, with purchases of new motor vehicles ...
JANET YELLEN

At the federal level, the fiscal stimulus of 2008 and 2009 supported economic output, but the effect...
JANET YELLEN

Some degree of inequality in income and wealth, of course, would occur even with completely equal op...
JANET YELLEN

Housing wealth - the net equity held by households, consisting of the value of their homes minus the...
JANET YELLEN

Most women experience issues of power and sexuality, but very few women talk about it. There's t...
JANET FITCH

When I went to law school, I had Roger Fisher for Civil Procedure. I never heard anything about nego...
JANET RENO

Efforts to promote financial stability through adjustments in interest rates would increase the vola...
JANET YELLEN

I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then...
JANET EVANOVICH

A clear lesson of history is that a 'sine qua non' for sustained economic recovery following...
JANET YELLEN

It is the police of America who are on the front lines, who are on the streets, who are in the daily...
JANET RENO

This little guy was so thirsty, he just drank and drank. He was so dehydrated and worn out from cryi...
JANET GERBER

Now that elms are rare, woolly apple aphids usually live on apples throughout the year.
JANET MURPHY

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sin...
JANET MALCOLM

I want to make sure there are no gatekeepers at the AG's door, and that anybody in the Departmen...
JANET RENO

In my junior year, I studied geology on Saturday mornings at the Museum of Natural History. Mineralo...
JANET YELLEN

When I was very young, my father had an accident. He fell down a flight of stairs, fractured his sku...
JANET YELLEN

The future path of the federal funds rate is necessarily uncertain because economic activity and inf...
JANET YELLEN

I will be the first to say that it is always difficult to get monetary policy just right. But the Fe...
JANET YELLEN

My mother never met a gadget she didn't like. There were tube pans for baking the angel food cak...
JANET FITCH

Mandatory reporting simply means more scrutiny in all of the practices around reducing infection. St...
JANET PRUST

If you have a good community behind you and a good family supporting you, then, when the buck stops ...
JANET RENO

I think, clearly, where you have a situation in which the Solicitor General tells me, 'I cannot ...
JANET RENO

The only effective way to reduce and prevent juvenile crime is to balance tough enforcement measures...
JANET RENO

I don't think passion is the appropriate response, ... I think careful, deliberate thought about how...
JANET RENO

I would refer you to the language of the law, ... It depends on the circumstances.
JANET RENO

At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.
JANET RENO

The emphasis on 'billable hours' and achieving a potential figure is leading to a belief that the firm doesn't care. The casualties of billable hours are feedback, supervision and time to talk, and all the things that make professional life pleasurable.

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The emphasis on 'billable hours' and achieving a potential figure is leading to a belief that the firm doesn't care. The casualties of billable hours are feedback, supervision and time to talk, and all the things that make professional life pleasurable.

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