At your firm, can you still be eligible for a bonus if you don’t meet your billable requirement, under certain circumstances? Are elements like a slow start followed by a positive trend over the year, team workload, significance of contributions outside of billable hours and qualitative feedback taken into account if the hours are not there?

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This is going to be very firm specific. Everyone will have different policies and practices.

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Agreed on being firm specific. As an example, at latham, a certain percentage of your committee hours will count toward your billables — although I think it varies from year to year whether the count toward the initial 1900 or only start counting after you hit 1900 (like AOP credits)

Also, very specific of the partners you work with. Some partners will go to bat for you to give you some $

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Also depends on whether those partners have any power beyond strong suggestions.

At Proskauer the answer is “yes”. Technically no billable hour requirement (although everyone ends up billing around 2000 anyway).

Cool, hope you’re enjoying your day.

You can perhaps hope for a little summin summin but not market bonus.

Anecdotal personal experience, it was a nope for me.

Yes, at my firm, but you’re probably not getting the full bonus and it’s all very much case by case. Basically, if you don’t make hours, don’t expect a bonus, but the firm may surprise you.

Never hit the official target, always got a bonus

Certain things count for purposes of your step increase but I don’t think anything other than actual billables count for the bonus program.

Thanks all!

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