If you exceed your billable hours Monday through Thursday and don’t have much work to do on Friday, is it okay to leave early?

How does your firm measure utilization? I work for a small boutique that defines it as utilization = number of billable hours/2,080 and full bonus payout occurs at 80% plus.

What’s big law like in San Francisco? Anyone have any insights to firm cultures or billable targets?

I am concerned with fulfilling billable hours requirement. I’m required to hit 2100 hours yearly and I’m at ~1,500 hours and I think I’ll hit 150-180hours this month. What will happen if I don’t hit my targeted amount by the end of my year.

Went from a big firm to work for a smaller firm. The people in the smaller firm are protective of their work and are good by their work too. I no longer feel chaos or stress. I am treated with respect and my schedule is more normal. I am even working more billable hours than before, but it feels like a seamless experience. I don’t work then past 5pm or anything out of the ordinary for this time of the year. I am so grateful!

What are firm’s known billable requirements? Is there a ramp up period?

With the various RTO rumors/fear out there and in the absence of spring/summer/fall(?) bonuses. Would you consider coming into the office more if your firm offered bonuses linked to days in the office (coupled with billable targets, of course)?

Explain to me like I’m 5. Why does the monthly billable hours goal on things like Intellistat change month to month. I’m not hitting hours this year. Last month goal was 158. This months goal is 180.

How is productivity measured for in-house attorneys? Is there any analog of billable hours for in-house lawyers?

Highest number of billable hours you have seen in a year?

I heard so much about minimum billable hours here by staff. I never saw that email. Is it inly for certain groups?

How do firms give bonuses to associate attorneys? Quarterly, monthly, annually? What is a bonus based on? Money recieved, billable hours, etc?

I'm looking to set up a bonus structure for a new associate.

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.

Had 2 hours of billable work today 💀

My firm’s IT (especially system saving and file locating function) is so bad 😐😞 and they keep doing updates no one asked them for just to mess with the stuff we already got a hang of without doing anything about the issues we actually need fixed. Anyone else in a similar boat? Do you bill the client for the time it takes to fix the IT issue (or IT inefficiency generally, like time taken to find a file in a convoluted system)? Or is that supposed to be our non-billable time?

Does industry have billable hours? At the big 4, we are required to work a certain number of hours each week and if we spend too much time on anything we are questioned on why it took so long. Is that a thing when you go in industry?

If you are a first year in a stub year, and significantly under billable hours requirement, do firms typically still give pro rated bonus? Do first year stub associates really ever hit their pro rated hours in those 2-3 months?

Weber folks! At what point do you become eligible for a yearly bonus and how is your bonus determined? Any tie to billable hours?

Mental health is busy, looking for tips to help manage tasks, currently I supervise 12 therapists in 3 different departments that are all different with unique dynamics in each dept. I still carry a small caseload on top of this. I'm struggling with my patients and worry I am not giving them my best, I wax and wane between focusing on patients and therapists. Looking for advice navigating this type od conversation with my leadership, we have all been asked to work on increase billable time...

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 meditation stories on recovery anyone willing to share? Did you have break through moments during meditation?

Some people mentioned au pairs... tell me more! Why did you like/not like it, if you did the au pair thing?

Hey Guys,

Just got off a call with Counselor. Got Differentiating with Progression to Senior 2
Is there any hike for Progression and how much will be the VPB

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Hey Fishes,

Will ECBA (Entry Certificate Business Analyst) certification by IIBA be helpful to me in my career ?

My background-
* B.E in Computer science
* MBA in Systems and Analytics (2019-21)
* It's been 6 months I am working as an Analyst- Data science at Infosys

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I’m a third year in corporate and want to switch to tax. Am I too late? How do I ask my firm?

With the various RTO rumors/fear out there and in the absence of spring/summer/fall(?) bonuses. Would you consider coming into the office more if your firm offered bonuses linked to days in the office (coupled with billable targets, of course)?

Best books on leadership and self development?

Recently received an offer from Ogletree to do only class action work. It'll be a big change for me, I'll be starting as a fourth year. Double my current salary, etc.

What will this be like? It's more of a niche, but lucrative, part of their practice, right? Will I really get good WLB like they claim? I have a nice 40 hour a week job right now, no billables.

Am I the only one who finds statements like, "I'm a democrat/republican" detrimental? Using these words as nouns instead of adjectives illustrates why America's so divided. It would be better to say, "I usually vote for Democrats/Republican candidates. We are not who we vote for

Anyone do their own bridal makeup? Any advice or thoughts?

Hi Fishes,
Can anyone tell me the questions that are asked generally in interviews for Senior BA role for data science and analytics in VMware?

For anyone who receives a quarterly bonus or raise in some form, does your employer start to schedule you for less hours when your raise kicks in, or pull you from a future schedule entirely once you receive a bonus; only to put you back on once the hours you would have worked and earned the amount given are passed? Ie; a part time employee getting $200.00 in a quarterly bonus and then not being scheduled a whole week during a bi-weekly pay period where they would have earned more on the clock…?

Is kpmg kgs banglore taking alot of time to realise the offer??? banglore
As they took my documents on 9 September and it's 30 th today and the hr has not released it yet even not gave me a hike of 20-30% as per industry standards.


I am not getting better opportunity elsewhere , what should I do.
She called me on Wednesday confirming the od to be released by the wed or Friday..

Are they really taking that much time or are they fooling around my time

I know a lot of PE firms have port ops teams, but any pe firms have in-house market l due diligence teams / market insights teams to help deal teams with market diligence (aka market size, customer perspectives, competitive landscape, etc.)

Got On track (OOO) rating for JPMC year end review, can someone help me understand what can be the expected hike percentage?
I joined in April this year

Best credit cards for a non-road warrrior after CSR and Amex Plat changes? I think Amex Gold and the Chase Flex are pretty good - do not think CSR and Plat are worth it anymore

Any possibility to transfer H1B approval from Infosys to new company? It is not yet stamped

How long should it take to hear back after a final round BCG experienced hire interview? Does it vary with campus recruiting going on now?

What is the typical salary increase from consultant to manager?

Not thrilled about having to fly United for this engagement. No status on any airline- any ACN promotions going on right now?

I’m sure you don’t get many of us industry peasants here but I’m looking for advice.. I’m 24yo in ERM, doing a M. Statistics, CFA L2 in June, what should I move into if I want to get to MBB in 5y?

Career goals: anyone else feel like at some point you got on a treadmill and you’ve been continually speeding it up, but now can’t foresee being able to slow it down? Can’t keep this pace forever but don’t know what exits will be both forgiving and fulfilling.

Saw a job posting for a McK SAP functional consultant. Serious question, who is paying for McK to do their SAP transformation? I thought we were expensive.

How do you guys start an email when sending an attachment?

If you exit big consulting (e.g ACN, Deloitte, PWC) and go work at a boutique firm, do the big consulting recruiters stop reaching out since you left their world?

How do people battle burnout?

What are some of the best consulting firms for a software engineer? Is MBB still considered elite in this area too?

Looking for non- fiction book recommendations. I just read Shoe Dog and loved it.

Best consulting firms without the massive ego?

What are the weirdest reasons you have heard for people being laid-off? I have heard someone getting laid off because they missed submitting their time-sheets for 3 times in a year.

Slalom 🐠 the data analytics consulting team hit me up recently for a conversation. How do you all like it there?

Does online job application ever work?

What are some good books that helped you with consulting? Looking for some good reads.

what if we find out this wfh thing is better than traveling and going to the office?
THEN WHAT DO WE DO?

Is the PPE crisis over? Can people find N95 and surgical masks easily?