We admit it: we've been so busy adding exciting new products, we've neglected to update our Billable Hour Resources Page for far too long.

For the uninitiated, the Billable Hour Resources Page is the web's most exhaustive and up-to-date compilation of links to books; studies and reports; newspaper and magazine articles; blog entries; and podcasts discussing the billable hour and related subjects such as client service, value billing and work/life balance.

Without further ado, for your reading pleasure, here are the new resources we added to the Resources Page this week:

Books
Billing Innovations: New Win-Win Ways to End Hourly Billing
by Richard C. Reed

Lawyer's Lives Out of Control: A Quality of Life Handbook
by Gerald Levan

Proceed With Caution: A Diary of the First Year At One Of America's Largest, Most Prestigious Law Firms
by William R. Keates

Why Lawyers Should Surf: Inspiration for Lawyers at Work and Play
by Tim Kevan and Michelle Tempest

Studies and Reports
Time IS Money When You're Paid by the Hour
Sanford E. DeVoe, Stanford Graduate School of Business, August 2006

Articles
Law Firm Honored for Nap Perk, Flex Time
ABC News International, September 1, 2006

When a Family Pays For the Home Office
Jeff D. Opdyke, StartupJournal.com, July 24, 2006

Ron Baker's Value Pricing Mission
Niquette M. Kelcher, SmartPros.com, June 2006

Healthy Lawyers are More Fully Engaged
Don Hutcheson interviews Ellen Ostrow, PhD., The Complete Lawyer

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Blogs
Why do Lawyers Leave the Law?
Allison Shields, Legal Ease Blog, March 9, 2007

How Much Do We Sacrifice For More Income?
Susan Cartier Liebel, Build a Solo Practice, LLC, March 6, 2007

Hourly Billing Reduces Firm Profits Enrico Schaefer, The Greatest American Lawyer, March 4, 2007

Lawyer Unhappiness: Chicken Little at Law
Stephanie West Allen, idealawg, March 3, 2007

Value Billing and Random Acts of Humanity
Susan Cartier Liebel, Build a Solo Practice, LLC, January 26, 2007

The Billable Hour Turns People into Workaholics
Bob Sutton, Work Matters, January 13, 2007

Pressure to Bill Leads to Questionable Billing Practices
Allison Shields, Legal Ease Blog, January 12, 2007

Hot Worms Revisited: Extreme Lawyers Often Love their Work
Stephanie West Allen, idealawg, December 3, 2006

Happiness Equals Reality Divided by Expectations
Chuck Newton, Spare Room Tycoon, November 30, 2006

Monica Parker: A Fun Exercise to Improve Work Life Balance
JDBliss Blog, November 30, 2007

When You Value Bill, Be Sure To Tell The Client
Carolyn Elefant, MyShingle, November 12, 2006

Independent Practitioners Balance Work With Play
Enrico Schaefer, The Greatest American Lawyer, October 10, 2006

Report Finds Married Parents' Combined Work Hours on the Rise
JDBliss Blog, September 6, 2006

One Step Closer to Value Billing
Ed Poll, LawBiz Blog, August 23, 2006

The Flexible Law Firm: Reality or Pipe Dream?
Arnie Herz, Legal Sanity, July 19, 2006

Value Billing: Too Nebulous to be Effective?
Allison Shields, Legal Ease Blog, June 15, 2006

Podcasts
Ed Poll of LawBiz Management Associates interviews attorney Hugh Q. Gottschalk about alternative fee billing
Ed Poll, LawBiz Blog, September 5, 2006

Ed Poll of LawBiz Management Associates interviews Jeff Carr about alternative fee billing
Ed Poll, LawBiz Blog, August 28, 2006

Ed Poll of LawBiz Management Associates interviews Jeff Carr about alternative fee billing and shared risk
Ed Poll, LawBiz Blog, July 24, 2006