Does meeting your billable hour requirement ever get easier? Any tips or tricks for maximizing your billable time?

Thought experiment for you, fishies.

We all love to hate on billable hours. What’s a real, feasible alternative???

Small agency owner 🙋🏻‍♂️ I’ve wracked my brain and have 3 biz model options, none great:

Billable hrs: Generally accepted. We all know the downsides.

Pay4performance: Big upside potential, tons of risks.

Project pricing: Cloak for billable hours. You have to estimate project cost with something.

Who’s thought of a better approach??? Genuinely curious if there is one.

Interviewing at Borton Petrini in Los Angeles ….Anyone have any experiences working there/interviewing there or any tips they can provide? Any salary tips? billable hours? Anything anyone has heard regarding Borton Petrini

I work full time in a (foreign) country where employees are protected pretty well.
Our agency lost clients and they need to lay people off. I’m on that list too.
They are convincing us to accept a voluntary resignation with 5 months of salary. I can refuse (law will protect me) and stay on but I have barely any billable work to do and of course this will create some toxic relationships with management. (CONT)

My firm is hiring. 12 attorney firm in the central coast. Above market comp, 1500 billable hours, great team and culture. Looking for business/civil litigators and general business attorneys

Hi ladies! Looking for insights on what’s it’s like working as an associate of some firms. Anyone here has worked/works at Fox Rothschild or McDermott and can give me some insights as to firm culture? Partners? Work life balance ? Billable requirements etc?

The recent most billable hours post, inspired me. What is your longest billable day? Mine was 56 hours straight with no break—and the partner was more than a jerk when I was saying no more at the 30 hour point. That was two 24 hour billable days back to back on my time sheet and on the bill, a 360 hour month, and 650 aggregated for two months. And it is one reason (of so many reasons) why this job can suck so much! At least I got a good bonus...

Currently at 60 billable hrs so far in corporate 🙌🏼 how’s your New Years starting?

My law firm gives me a report that breaks down the amount of billable hours collected compared to how much I’ve been paid on a monthly basis. Does anyone else’s firm do this? At what point do you think it’s acceptable to ask for a bonus/raise?

Did the billable hours bonus not get paid out today? Or is it to be paid in the next check?

Not excited by our bonus structure. Everything is dictated by billable hours and I’m just churning with no motivation.

Started out hating Zoom depos. Kind of like them now. In hour two of a co-defendant’s examination, which is entirely irrelevant to my client, and I’ve clipped my nails, stretched fully, planned a hike for the weekend, ordered my home goods off Amazon, and it’s all billable time because I’m stuck on this thing.

Everyday I can’t seem to hit the required billable hours. I’m overwhelmed by emails and people asking me where an item is. I feel like I’m not good enough. I keep making mistakes I shouldn’t make at my level. I wish I could just quit so I wouldn’t have to be miserable everyday.

Does anyone know what the billable requirements are for a counsel job (off the track) with Littler?

What does everyone have for billable hours?

Making hard push to go in-house with a startup, billable work has dried up.

Question: what’s a good salary for VP Mkt & Sales? And commission?

Anyone gone from 1900 to 2000 billable hours required? It’s for more money but I’m scared.

I am a 10 yr lawyer. 7 yrs in my practice area. Little over a year at current firm. Still an associate. Im at large plaintiff firm w/ billable requirements. I do mass/class cases and hold a couple leadership positions (these were competitive to get). What should salary be and when should I make partner. I’ll add I work remote and pretty autonomously. Little contact with partners or anyone at my firm.

Competitive billable rate for Patent prosecutor in NY?

Bullish on Gensler for SEC. Guy actually understands crypto. XRP is a security!

Sold those weekly aapl puts for a huge loss. Lost the gains I made in the last play + about 1k... taking a break from options and just watching things ride out. Got too cocky and aggressive

Just accepted an offer. I fought for the money instead of the higher title? Good move or bad move?

Is anyone annoyed that accolades has oddball pricing like 106 for a gift card and you need to pay $10 for 10 points. You can’t just get 6 points?

I am currently working in advertising with experience on fintech & CPG. I would like to work in tech marketing, specifically Google’s APMM program.
I’ve been studying some PM/PMM books/podcasts/videos, attending Google events, and want to keep learning more to try to prepare myself as much as I can.
What resources helped you get into product marketing/Google?
Has anyone here moved from advertising to tech?
Would love to hear from a marketer about their experience getting into Google.
Thank you

Is bakery still hiring strat director?

Let's play a game. Name one thing that students do not know that we
knew at that age.
High School Senior: Mr. Lee, what is my zip code?
High School Senior: Mr. Lee, what goes on the envelope?
High School Senior: Mr. Lee, what is graph paper?

On a 14 hr transpacific flight but my remote control for calling cabin crew, turning on lights etc. is broken. Esp annoyed by the no light = no reading. How many miles?

What questions do you love to hear from analysts who are trying to network with you?

Looking to move into pre-sales / sales engineering after 15 years in strategy/analytics consulting.

Would love the chance to speak to someone in the analytics area and see what I can do to make my resume more of a fit.

Is LEK hiring experienced individuals in London?

Was very interested in the 2nd year associate role, but it’s no longer advertised!

Thanks!

Hi Everyone! Looking to learn more about the management consulting strategy arm in Big 4 - would love to have a chat and ask a few questions.

Thanks!

I eat really healthy most of the time but am a complete stress eater when my workload gets out of control. Any advice?

I’m taking a break from Facebook and Instagram. I feel like I am living my life for likes. This was especially true today when I closed on my first home and I wanted to post about it.

Going on PTO for the next two weeks. Can we enter and submit time for future weeks?

I have 26k IHG points expiring 12/31 and no plans to stay at an IHG property in the near future.

What's the best way to cash them out? I was considering transferring to an airline but conversion is 5:1 and only in increments of 10k...

My law firm gives me a report that breaks down the amount of billable hours collected compared to how much I’ve been paid on a monthly basis. Does anyone else’s firm do this? At what point do you think it’s acceptable to ask for a bonus/raise?

Hi Fishes,

I am a carbon credits consultant working for a startup. Here I am working on various business development activities along with the technical part. The job is very much of a techno-commercial kind. I have been working here for more than a year now. I am willing to make a switch now. I would love to work in the field of ESG and/or decarbonization strategy.

I'm a post graduate in Environmental engineering.

Current compensation- 5 LPA Any leads and referrals are appreciated.

I am a working mom, a senior, and was born/raised in a different country. Recently I was still told that I am on a partnership track and would be sponsored to be a partner in the next two years or so. But tonight I was told to be open to be a counsel next year, and work on my oral communication and accent reduction. I am sad and devastated. I just wanted to know: should I give up altogether and stop working, and if not, should I leave this firm. Any thoughts will be appreciated.

Ladies, how old were you when you met your SO? I’m in my early thirties and feeling a little hopeless. Not to mention this job makes it hard to date.

I have so much anxiety about making mistakes at work, with the latest one over a partner calling out a mistake I made (and should’ve known about) that a senior associate also didn’t catch during her review. I adore this senior associate and actually triple-checked everything to make life easy for her, and yet still somehow missed this ONE (tiny) thing. Does it get better with experience? As in less anxiety and less mistakes on the details?

I’m looking for some casual, cotton blazers. Bonus points if they’re stretchy. I actually have one from target that I love, but I got it at least 5 years ago. I’m adopting a “work uniform” that consists of a plain black cotton dress and white tennis shoes, and I need some blazers to pair with it when I have to dress up. My company wears jeans, so I need to keep it casual. Any recommendations?

One of the law clerks I work closely with just put her in notice and I’m honestly devastated. She will be leaving in a week and I suspect it will be much longer until the partners hire someone and I will be picking up the slack. Any tips for managing without her in the interim and a smooth transition when someone new starts?

Low billable, low pressure work in patent lit, tech trans or privacy law? Slowly realizing that as my boys get older, the money isn’t worth what I’m missing out on. Currently a patent litigation associate with lots of hearing, depo and trial experience (I’ve appeared on my own at hearings/depos) at a well respected firm. Have my CIPM and CIPP/US /E and /C. Just feeling the burn out; 2000 hours of billables a year just isn’t sustainable for me long term. Money isn’t a huge issue.

How many billable hours per year could you work with a newborn, assuming you are primary caregiver, WFH is ok, and the files are unlimited?

Does anyone else cry at work? How have you stopped yourself from this. I feel like my male colleagues never do but I get so emotional when I receive bad feedback or get overwhelmed.

Wondering if any of you have an SO who is more of an effeminate man? Was the physical attraction slower to appear, but formed as you got to know them more?

I’ve gone out twice with a guy whose personality I like, but the physical attraction is taking longer to appear as he’s not my usual type. He’s a software engineer, a bit introverted, tall and slender, not athletic, and his voice and mannerisms are kind of feminine (he was raised by his mom and sister, makes sense?), which is new to me

Has anyone used BiBerk legal malpractice insurance in NYC and what was your experience? Any suggestions for alternative legal malpractice insurance companies?

How do you deal with a Partner that gives you loads of unbillable work. I’ve made sure to bring up that that client won’t pay atty fee for certain tasks and he tells me to bill it as xyz but xyz are usually tasks that don’t take that long so it does end up getting cut! He is a non-equity partner desperately trying to get a promotion only cares about the work he turns in/bills even if it means screwing over the associates on the file.

How long does it typically take to hear back from a firm after countering their offer? What does the negotiating timeline look like?

Pre-baby I had a great memory. My baby is now six months and I have terrible short term memory. Will it ever go back to the way it was?

Any tips for negotiating severance?