Does realization rate as an associate matter?

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My firm explicitly said that less than 90% is a problem

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My firm says it matters, but also doesn’t tell you what your number is. I know they want associates in the 80-85% range. I’m not in a big market so not sure if that effects it.

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To a point. If I look at your work and you took 10 hours to do something that I can only bill 1 and you do it often then it matters.

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Depends on the firm. Hopefully they’ll tell you if it does.

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A1 is right. Depends on the firm. Some firms don’t care so much about associate realization rates, whereas as it means everything to other firms.

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I had a 95% rate at this time last year. Now it is 85%. Don’t know what that means for me, though, as my firm doesn’t really talk about realization rate expectations for associates.

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