You are a paralegal at Baker & Baker, a large corporate law firm. It is the end of the month and time for you to submit your time sheets showing your billable hours for the month. Before you submit your time sheets, you need to review your note to confirm that your activities can appropriately be billed to clients. Please review your notes below and indicate whether each of the following items can be billed to the client and give an explanation as to why.

1. You had been asked to make a corporate filing with which you were unfamiliar. This was the first time that you had been asked to prepare such a filing. To learn more about these filings, you spent 4.7 hours reading general articles on the topic. 2. You summarized two depositions and prepared deposition abstracts that will be referenced at trial. Although it actually took you 8.6 hours to review both depositions (combined time), you recall that your supervising attorney told you that it would probably take you at least five hours to summarize each deposition. You plan to submit 10 hours for billing rather than 8.6. 3. You took a flight from Chicago to Boston to assist a client in preparing answers to interrogatories. You were in flight for 3 hours on your flight to Boston, and another 3 hours on the return trip. You were exhausted from all the work you have been doing and got some needed rest by sleeping on both flights. You plan to bill the client for the 6 hours that you were in flight. 4. Your firm recently took on a case from another lawyer. When you received the file from the former attorney, the documents (pleadings, research, filings, notes) were in complete disarray and need to be organized. You spend 4.6 hours organizing the files and printing/affixing bar code labels.