Comment by appstorelottery

It seems to me that one measure of productivity in a law firm is billable hours, however in the case of a litigator - it’s also successful case outcome. Again, it’s billable hours towards an outcome. So I can understand this heuristic based approach, on the other hand it seems like you’re tending towards the quantitative side?

Generalizations or rules of thumb can actually outperform complex quantitative approaches to decision making. Look at the 1/N heuristic for portfolio management for example.

Anyhow just my opinion - something for your curious mind to consider !