Backfield shrinkage
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(n) In law or other industries where time is entered by professionals for billing to clients, the process by which the time is written down, by owners of [the firm] to reduce the compensation of [the professionals] entering the time.
Frequently, this phenomenon is accompanied by the owners of the firm writing up their own time on the same file to increase their own share of the [billings] to the client.
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