I hate how billable hours are inextricably tied to your sense of worth/achievement in this job

Paralegal in mid size practice. Other than staying current with CLE’s (I am). What’s the best way for me to increase my billable rate?

Alright all. What are we grooving to while churning out these late night billable hours? Always looking for some new tunes to break up the deafening clacking of my keyboard at midnight.

Any tips for meeting billable targets?

16 weeks and so worried all of the stress I’m under is going to hurt the baby. Between work, my own scary (non-pregnancy) health stuff, the pandemic, my mom (who is a widow and lives alone, basically isolated by choice due to covid) is having health issues, and pressures to keep billable hours up, I’ve been having complete breakdowns. Today I spent almost the entire day crying and now have to make up the billable time this weekend. I really worry abt what effect this will have on the babe.

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.

Honest discussion about burn out: it is with you for the long run.
I burnt out at my last job and the job before that and now I’m at a really good firm that has no set billable hours and a really manageable workload, but it’s still difficult to get any work done. It will take a long time to fully recover from burn out.

How many real hours does it take to reach 8-10 billable hours? First year associate here wondering what a 8-10 billable hour day would look like now that I’m seeing my workload ramp up slowly but surely.

Been practicing complex lit (employment and consumer class/representative actions) on the plaintiff side for last 6 years of my 7 year career. Just accepted a defense side offer, with a billable requirement/initial bonus eligibility of 1750 hours. I know billing is different on the defense side than simply recording hours toward a lodestar on the plaintiff side. How many "real" total hours is 1750 billable hours? I know it's supposed to be relatively low, but not sure what it really means?

Is it just me or the average billable work in infrastructure transactions has blown off steam in the last couple of weeks?

Does anyone have experience working for a ALSP? How does compensation work (pay and benefits)? Are you an employee or technically an IC? Do you have billable requirements like at a firm? How do you think it prepared you to potentially move in house? I'm currently at a firm but thinking of taking a position with an ALSP but my goal is to go in house.

I have a question about mid-size Philadelphia law firms. Does anyone have any insight about what life is like (culture, pay, billable hours, cases, WFH, perks, etc.) as a junior partner/senior associate/of counsel in the litigation department at the following firms: Montgomery McCracken, Schnader Harrison, Stradley Ronon, Dilworth Paxson, Klehr Harrison?

Does anyone have experience working for a ALSP? How does compensation work (pay and benefits)? Are you an employee or technically an IC? Do you have billable requirements like at a firm? How do you think it prepared you to potentially move in house? I'm currently at a firm but thinking of taking a position with an ALSP but my goal is to go in house.

So who else here is experiencing plummeting billable hours and exponential weight gain since this whole WFH thing started? Bought snacks for 30 days, finished in 48 hours.

Does your firm require Pro Bono? If so, how many hours and is it counted towards your billable hours?

Received a job offer. Was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on a concern I had about it. It's an entry level position, and I don't have much experience. The billables are 2040 a year. For billable hours in civil litigation and insurance defense, is 2040 hours for a 1st year associate on the high end in this field for a small or midsize firm? It seems like most attorneys I know have minimum requirements of around 1800. The compensation is around 80k a year.

Has anyone gone into compliance for a state university & hospital? As counsel or a compliance officer? Looking for insight how this compares to firm lifestyle & billable hours.

Looking to leave a govt job for a junior attorney role in a small workers comp defense firm. I have no experience in workers comp. How easy is it to learn the work and make 1850 billable hours? What future opportunities does this experience give?

Any diplomatic tips to get interns/juniors to work faster?

Without having ever experienced the hectic nature of being in the office, ours seem to be working at a snail’s pace (3 billable hours to copy 4 blogs over to a different platform? With no SEO or image research? Dream on... 🐌) and considering it to be working under pressure. I’m not expecting the world from them and understand it’s a learning experience... but also want them to be working faster to be able to take more on. Unreasonable?

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

How many billable hours do people in prosecution tend to average each month? I’ve gone through waves of feeling like my billable hours requirement is reasonable to feeling like I’m drowning and can’t possibly do it for that long.

Recently lateraled and negotiated my salary based on what I thought was market rate. Thinking I low balled myself. Any tips on how to gauge how I compare to my peers in-firm/negotiate a raise?

Texas biglaw: any firms announce WFH policies post-Covid yet?

Ok serious question but might show my lack of knowledge about parent-child brand situations on Fb. Do consumers really want to engage with a local franchise versus the parent brand? I’m having a hard

Anyone else required to put together completely unrealistic timelines?

Upper management's direction is to put together the most aggressive deadlines we can. If we think a project will take 16 months, make the plan for 10 months then there's a chance we may launch in 13 months.

I understand that time to market is important in consumer product goods, but being constantly behind schedule and rushing everything is terrible for the team's morale.

What are some of the ways a company welcomes a new hire - remotely?

Blue point exchange anyone?

Hi! I’ve worked exclusively in small companies and I want to make a switch to large corporations. I finally have an interview next week and I want to shine.
Any tips on what big companies want to see, or concerns they might have with me not having corporate experience? (It’s an employer branding position, but overall advice is helpful!)

Interested to see some perspectives - currently working at a Payroll & Benefits Specialist at a fast growing company and recently passed my PHR! I just started this role only a few months ago but am already feeling like I can take on more, but not as much as a HR manager. I’m struggling to understand where exactly it is I can go from here. I’m 25, have 3 years of experience, and get paid $59k/year.

Where does one go from here? Thanks in advance for any and all answers!

Hello friends, I am looking for job. I have more than 9 yrs of experience in application support role. I can join immediately. I will much appreciate if any lead/referral.

Can I go from PE to consulting? I am a mid career PE professional. Mostly in growth capital. I always had wanted to spend some time in strategy consulting. But in undergrad I failed to get an offer, despite making it to final round at nearly all the MBBs. Later I went to b school but it was not a target school for consulting. Now I am more than ten years in finance. Can I try to get an experienced hire role in consulting given PE experience? Is that nuts? Is this “grass is greener” syndrome?

My uber driver is a Prius driving democrat who hasn't showered in 10 days. The fucker has no sense of urgency. Slow MOFO. Can't wait to destroy his ratings

Body moisturizer/lotion recommendations? I want to move on from Bath and body because they are toxic and Bum Bum cream is too expensive. Want something for daily use that smells great all day and reasonably priced.

I was informed by HR that there is Nodal cab pick up and drop for office in bengaluru location but it was not much clear how far/close would these nodes be in bengaluru. Can anyone share some insight on this ?

Insurance companies are now allowing embryo banking. This happened to me and also another friend who works at a different company where we decided to go through with another IVF cycle before attempting a transfer (because an optimal number of embryos was not achieved) and insurance approved them. Hallelujah!

New to the cloud so please help me understand - How do you differentiate between a cloud managed service provider, system integrator and reseller.

1. If you provide the infrastructure platform you're considered managed services? Are managed services a subset of system integration?

2. And a reseller is basically driving down client costs by passing on their discounts though their partnership with CSPs?

Booz, Deloitte - System Integrators?
Rackspace - Managed services?

Hello fishes,

My personal laptop is not working properly. I have to join Accenture in 1 week. Can I ask them to send me the official laptop before joining? Or what can be the solution apart from purchasing a new laptop?

Please suggest.

Thanks in advance.

Would anyone like to share anything interesting about a recent project they’ve gotten to work on?

Silly question but are Marriott hotels opened? 🙈

Could someone please explain how your bio on the firm website works when you quit. Is the process different if you’re terminated?

Long shot: does anyone know of Canadian firms hiring US- barred attorneys? If it helps I’m a Canadian citizen.

Hi boys & girls!

Joined a big firm (Big4) not long a go and starting to feel like I got a good grip on my current work.

I've always been very technical, so I think that the only thing I am missing now is making sales. (I really wanna make partner)

Can any seasoned lawyer share tips and materials (i.e. books) which can help?

Would it be a good idea to join a Social Club where potential clients spend time? (gym/tennis/paddel/events)

Any advice welcome!

I was fired from my firm. I have no motivation to wrap up my assigned work projects before I leave. Any suggestions?

Midlevel and seniors, how do you review juniors’ work without redoing them? Any tips on giving instructions or spotting mistakes?

Partners, senior associates - why do you phrase things as “what about this? Why havent we done this?” Isnt it obviously bc nobody thought about it? Why not just direct and guide your team to do something as opposed to ask that awkward question and make the team scramble to pretend like it’s in process

Why does it feel like no one works on Fridays anymore? Is anyone afraid about their hours?

I’m a lawyer based in Europe. I’m lateraling to a firm in a new jurisdiction on Monday and negotiated a decent pay increase a few months ago (new jurisdiction has significantly higher income taxes so negotiated based on a comparable net pay). My old firm has just announced it is increasing salaries by around 15% which will almost negate what I negotiated at new firm. New firm doesn’t review salaries till September. What are my options here so that I’m not out of pocket?

How much was your student loan and how long did you take to pay it off?

I just learned I made the same mistake I made a few months ago thatll be embarrassing and I need strength to tell the partner

On mentoring:

There have been a lot of posts on here recently talking about mentoring discrepancies in biglaw recently whose basic theme is that mentoring is crucial to career advancement and comes easily to some (white, male) associates just by dint of identity and partners seeing themselves in them. But i think this really understates how actively people who are well mentored chase mentoring - a quick thread.

What’s the most useful/important piece of constructive feedback you’ve received as an associate?

Are Money Service Businesses (money transmitter) considered Financial Institutions under Regulation E? They don’t exactly fit the definition of an FI, but there is a lot of gray area.

Thoughts on Baker Hostetler’s Dallas and Houston offices?

Client wants me in-house. Y/n? I will be taking no questions

What’s the timeline for lateraling to biglaw? Im hoping to lateral from midlaw in early 2023 and am curious when I should start the process of getting my resume where it needs to go. (Healthcare M&A associate fwiw).

What is your "golden handcuff"?

Can anyone provide insight into K&E debt finance and project/E&I finance? Looking for culture, junior hourly expectations, growth prospects, etc., really appreciate any insights folks can provide.

Edit: I’m looking in NY fwiw