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Alright these “should I be worried” posts have to stop.
Attention all juniors: If your entire practice group is a little bit slow for a while, but you are doing good work, reaching out for assignments, fulfilling whatever RTO requirements your firm has set, responding to emails right away, and generally not being a dick, take a deep breath and keep on keeping on.
If your hours are low because you’re “hiding,” doing the minimum, not communicating, turning in poor work product, blowing deadlines, etc., then yes, you may eventually run into consequences. To you I suggest changing those behaviors that you probably know deep down aren’t serving you, but no I do not recommend that you enter a state of worry. That’s pointless. Just do your job to the best of your ability and what will be will be.
Coach
As a slow jr, thank you for this.
Corporate is slower generally right now. Have you asked for work/advocated for yourself? I’d suggest picking up pro bono or other internal stuff that might be billable (client development, recruiting, etc). It shows you’re trying to stay busy and benefits you bonus-wise. Unfortunately not much you can do if the partners aren’t giving you work, so long as you’re making it known you need it
It depends on the firm honestly. Sometimes you can work on the research/presentation for pitches, sometimes it’s internal tech initiatives billed to “client development”, other times it’s just client work that’s not billable to a specific matter
If you have an annual hours target, they will probably only be looking at your hours billed since January 1 2022. How many of those do you have?
Coach
OP - Make sure you confirm what your firm considers to be a performance year - every biglaw firm I’ve worked in did not use the calendar year as the performance year.
Enthusiast
No in terms of getting fired. Yes in terms of getting a bonus. It will be hard to make up those hours if you’re only at 5-600 by now