How do you all handle non-billable work on top of meeting your billable targets (assuming no minimum requirement and bonus threshold not an issue)? I.e. If you have two hours of non-billable work to do (but it’s work that can be added to your time sheet like business development) do you still bill ~8 hours of billable work on top of that for a total of 10hrs on your sheet?

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I don’t do any non billable work (except occasional pitches). For real, just push back aggressively if they try to give it to you, or say you can’t do it until 2-3 weeks out. They’ll eventually stop going to you for non billable

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@senior counsel 1, be kind and productive.

@OP, push back. Say you can handle X later, after you've finished a pressing matter. Bring up that these things get shunted to you in your review! This is not even hidden sexism. Then go buy yourself a copy of Nice Girls Dont Get the Corner Office.

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I would leave it for a slower day or when I hit a wall on my billable work and needed to switch it up

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Yeah in this case I just wouldn’t hit 8 billable hours

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Counterpoint-The general advice you can give to all associates is “you’re not going to make partner here”

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