Worked scenario
The figure discussed and the figure billed
An advocate billing from memory bills less than was earned, and the shortfall is invisible because nobody records the work that was forgotten.
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Fees are agreed in conversation and the work accumulates over months. At the end, the invoice is built from a diary, a memory and a sense of what feels fair.
Forgetting runs one way
Nobody invents an appearance. Work that is not recalled is simply not billed, so reconstruction is systematically favourable to the client.
Recording is a minute a day
An entry per appearance or conference, on the day. That is the whole discipline, and it is the difference between an invoice that is defensible and one that is a proposal.
What changes
- Fee basis recorded at instruction
- Appearances and work recorded on the day
- Invoice assembled from the record rather than reconstructed
- Outstanding fees visible per instructing party
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