It eliminates a type of lawyer they cannot use. I ve never gotten to a point where I couldn t go on. Once I worked 24 hours straight, and then I worked six more hours just to see if I could do it. Complex toxic tort, environmental, securities, and antitrust cases are always staffed with multiple lawyers. This is not double billing.
Teamwork is necessary with discrete assignments provided to multiple lawyers on the large cases.
Careful monitoring of lawyers time can avoid billing abuses if lawyers duplicate each others work. Alcoa s records bulged with 15,000 pages of documentary evidence while the National Lead record contained 1,400 exhibits. The cases often take many years and many people work on them. The work is customarily divided into small fragments and assigned to young associates. The same teamwork concept was prevalent in 1905.