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Hi all. I am a SCM Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&O Functional Consultant.
(Role in IBM : Package Consultant: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations; Band: 7A)
My relevant experience is 3.5 years(Total: 4.5 years).
I am on bench and am looking for a project.
Kindly let me know if anyone of you are aware of any such suitable opportunity.
Please feel free to ping me. Thanks in Advance! 🙂
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Hello Guys,
I joined Cognizant recently, the project interview calls which I am getting is not from my base location.
I have the location constraint, should I wait for the right opportunity or raise this concern to ADP team so they can look in to it?
As per ADP policy, one should not have any constraints and take the project as FCFS basis.
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How is the insurance BU project to work? And if we do not like the project what is the process to change the project that we are looking domain for? I am from background of Banking and capital market domain Persistent Systems Limited Persistent Systems Limited Tata Consultancy Cognizant
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30 cases in biglaw is nuts. Most people I know work on about 3-5 at any given time. If you’re doing complex lit and not just high volume ID cases I’m not sure how you can work on 30 cases. I billed 1700 hours on one case alone last year.
4-5 max and that’s if 3-4 of them are quite small. If you’re at 30, I’m assuming you are not at the high end of the market or are in a products liability practice.
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I was thinking mid market products liability/warranty
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It really depends on the practice and on how the teams are staffed.
If it’s high volume stuff (mass tort, some type of similar thing where there are similar cases for a client, with occasional sophisticated issues) and a lot of the drafting is repackaging other drafts/ the job is mostly deadline and project management, then this seems incredibly manageable in terms of case numbers. Doubly true if a staff attorney (or someone other than you) is managing document discovery.
But if it’s cases with tons of documents (like white collar/false claims/similar), novel issues, class cert. proceedings, or some other area where each individual case is a ton of work, then yeah 30 is impossible. Sometimes 3 is impossible if the cases are large/busy enough.
Yeah this only makes sense if you are working product liability or mass torts - anything else is not feasible
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That’s a little bit. Ask others in your firm how much they’re handling, and you’ll quickly realize you’re nowhere near that amount.
I did. Other associates at my level in litigation said they typically handle under 10 matters at a time. That’s why I’m here asking if my situation is unusual generally in BL or just unusual at my firm.
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How big and how hot are the cases?
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Have never been on more than 2 cases
I have 5 active patent lit cases and that’s a lot for me. Usually I only handle 2-3 active cases at one time.
5-15 for me, 3rd year
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About same for me - 6 yoe
High volume torts cases. I’m a 2nd year with 30ish cases. If you are doing the same thing, this is pretty standard.
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This sounds like an absurd number to me, but it depends what those cases are and how much work there is. I’m getting crushed by about 8 cases right now and there’s no way I could handle 30, but that’s also because some days I have 16 hours of work for one of those cases alone.
Plaintiff or defense work? This makes a huge difference. If defense, firm wants to maximize hourly billing and keep client happy, so fewer cases are more practical. If plaintiff work, you’re going only getting paid if you win/settle so you need a higher volume of cases to reach target numbers.
I’m a third year, BL lit plaintiff associate and have anywhere from 65-90 active files at a time, and firm wants us to have at least 10-15 cases in suit at any given time. And I don’t work with a partner - these are all mine.
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“BL lit plaintiff associate” seems like an oxymoron. Are there Amlaw firms with substantial plaintiff-practices outside of patent prosecution? This genuinely makes no sense to me.