By Moira Cook ( September 3, 2026, 10:57 AM EDT) -- Within the legal community, there is growing recognition that the billable hour can negatively impact lawyers’ lives. Billable-hour culture can lead lawyers to make judgments about the value of activities based on whether they are billable. If you are spending the day with your children, your mind might start to calculate how many billable hours you are missing out on. Time becomes a commodity, and you may begin to view meaningful activities as wasteful....