Looking Optimistically at Billable Hours

It is possible to thrive in a billable hours-based system.  Lawyers in private practice can establish priorities and mindsets that will help them enjoy their work and minimize the negative effects of billable hours.  The practice of law in a billable hours world - or the 6-Minute Life - has advantages upon which lawyers (and paralegals) should capitalize.  Further, lawyers can and should implement alternatives to billing by the hour.  It is helpful to explore various alternatives to billable hours, and continue efforts to eradicate billable hours from the practice of law.  Billable hours have not been used by the legal profession over an extended period of time, and there is every reason to believe that the profession can abandon its fixation on them.