And the Nominee is:

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Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

To be fair I'm jumping on and off and reading stuff in pieces here and there but this caught my attention.... not so much because really anyone can be said to have been an "associate" in a workplace where they have connections but this... this is what interests me.....


In 1993 Obama joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a 12-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996, then of counsel from 1996 to 2004.During the four years Obama worked as a full time lawyer at the firm, he was involved in 30 cases and accrued 3,723 billable hours.

Now I'm only doing the math in my head but this - the number of hours - doesn't this seem very very low?

It's roughly 4 and a half months of "Full Time" work. So only about 15% of his time (factoring in vacation time, about 10% actual) as a "Full Time" lawyer was actually spent billing work.

I don't know of any law firms that could possibly stay in business if they relied on that degree of productivity.