1. If an attorney is travelling for one client while working for another (travelling for one case while working on another by using a laptop computer on an airplane or by using a cell phone while in a car), then two billable hours may equal one actual hour. Also, some firms bill a minimum of 15 minutes for every billable telephone call from a client, so if you talk to 60 separate clients for one minute each, you might have 15 billable hours for one actual hour. On the other hand, when providing free consultations to prospective clients, one actual hour does equal zero billable hours. 2. To have 2000 billable hours per year without working weekends, you need to have at least 8 billable hours per day, probably more, not 7.75. This is because nearly everything shuts down from December 24 to January 1, so you may not have any billable hours after the 51st week of the year, because you may get sick, because of holidays and vacations, etc. Each year has 210, 211, or 212 weekdays. To reach 2000 hours at 8 hours per day, you need to work 200 days, which means that only 10, 11, or 12 days are left for holidays, vacation, sickness, etc. Considering that there are almost that many holidays in the year, it probably does not leave enough for vacation, sickness, etc.