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Normalizing & enforcing leaving by 7 (I wouldn’t dare dream of earlier lol)… yeah a few late nights every now and then, but man it would be amazing to live a life outside of the office after 7 most nights. I could actually have a healthy social life, dating life, exercise routine, all of that if I knew I could honestly commit and consistently follow-through by arriving to said commitment by 7:30 lol. All wishful thinking 😅
Normalizing this is probably not ever achievable. But just doing it / enforcing it without asking anyone and without it being normalized is achievable today.
Lower hours track (that was actually respected)
Very possible.
Rising Star
Sabbatical.
A5 by “break,” I mean: a pause in work or during an activity or event. Parental leave is literally a break from your job. I didn’t say it’s a vacation if that’s what you’re implying.
401k match and none of this “unlimited vacation” nonsense
WFH forever
Need a litigator who likes federal work and who wants to take over files.
Training.
Chief
MP2, I think that’s helpful but probably not far enough for most people. It’s like asking a new student to translate Latin and telling them where they can find examples (or even a dictionary). The samples don’t mean much in a vacuum. I give them examples also but then walk through the point of what we’re trying to do in this particular document, before they start. I assume they don’t understand until it’s really clear that they do. I don’t do this because I’m nice (although I’d like to think I am), but because it makes my life much easier when I get their draft, and even easier as they learn.
I think the most important thing is for them to understand what the problem is and what you’re trying to accomplish. It’s otherwise very hard to be a problem solver.
For paralegals to get all paralegal work.
Chief
For the 60 year old partner crowd to understand that its job is to transition clients they way the clients were transitioned to them.
Transfer to intl office while keeping us salary
Either pay my phone bill or give a stipend for phone bill if not going to be provided a separate work phone.
My own paralegal that I don’t have to share, and a set bonus structure. Right now it’s “if we feel like you bring in what we think is a lot of money in a given month, we might give you some amount at our discretion, or not.” It would just be nice to have some kind of tangible goal knowing what the reward will be.
For time off (whether sick, holiday or PTO) to have hours that count towards your annual goal. Otherwise, feeling sick for one day means more work when you get back. It would be nice to actually have a day off mean a day off and not a day that needs to be made up at another time.
This!
+30-50k raise
Shut off communication policy after 7 pm (per my big law boyfriend who isn’t on fishbowl!)
Free food
We have an office of 6 and everyone gets free lunch delivery. Sometimes they all order from the same place, sometimes not. They don’t have to stay over the lunch hour, but they usually do.
Capped billable hours - 2100 max annually (lol) keep dreaming I know…
A team that wanted to take over the practice.
Free food and fully equipped gym at the office
More flexibility with billable hours, i.e. the ability to apply up to 50 hours of pro bono work to billable hour quota.
A partner that actually reads (not skims for general idea) and pays attention when I am asking for input/advice/guidance.