I’m in year 5 as a lit associate, and while I finally feel like I know what I’m doing the burnout is creeping in fast. The adrenaline of learning has worn off, and now it’s just…volume. Constant deadlines, client emergencies, billing pressure, rinse and repeat. I used to think it’d get easier, but now I wonder if I just got better at functioning through fatigue. I love being a lawyer, but I can’t picture surviving like this for another decade. Is this just the mid-associate blues, or a sign I need to rethink the whole trajectory? Anyone else hit this wall?

Hi Fishes Accenture , I need your urgent support / help / suggestion / advice🙏🏻

I have joined on 18th April, 22 as BA in Accenture .I have got a mail stating I have been rolled off from my current project on 19th.
I am very worried now as I am on bench. Request everyone to get me a project.
Exposure: Banking, Payment Card.
Thank you in advance 🙏🏻

Anyone working on a project for requisition ID 547016BR having below requirement
Req#: 547016BR

Your Role and Responsibilities
Be involved in data engineering activities like Creating pipelines / workflows for Source to Target etc.

Responsibilities:
You will be involved in the Azure Data platform implementation. Willing to work in shift timings 2PM to 11PM

If yes , Let me know as soon as possible

I have an interview with Korn Ferry for an associate principal role and am curious about others’ experiences have been with work-life balance here. Also, I have an idea of what I should be compensated in this type of role, but any insights on how they pay compared to others would be helpful. Are you traveling during the pandemic or have client interactions been virtual? Lastly, if you are a consultant here, are you on billable hours? My current consulting role is not - so this would be new.

Any tips for internal interviews for a title bump, but also to be on different team/client?

Has anyone had a client request zoom and virtual house showings?

Hi, I have two years bond for two lakhs
Served 1 year 3 months yet.
No project
Found a job for 6 lpa
Current package is 4

How to break bond without paying much bond amount
How much shud i be paying if I have to
Should I wait for the hike ?
Do they really give you a hike after 18 months???

Project Managers. Are any of your companies hiring a junior PM? I've been looking and not having a ton of luck.

How can I change the project in Accenture?

Hi Accenture people, got offer today, asked HR about project, she mentioned it will be mapped on first day itself and will be connected with project manager. I told her i need details about the project and she said she will talk to project manager and get back to me tommorrow. Everyone says we have to search project after joining only. So any idea if this scenario can happen? Anyone got to know project details before joining? Please share ur views.

Hi guys currently I'm working in a project with very stringent timelines. Sometimes we need to put more than 13-14 hrs each day. There are 4 members in my team. Two are involved in database prt and me and my lead are involved in the front end and middle layer prt. Somehow my lead is not at all pleased with my work. And even if I try to talk to him for something he is completely rude. Sometimes it makes me that I m completely useless. Even the other team members are following the lead

I have a team that just completed an audit, on time, on budget, resulting in a happy client which makes me a happy partner!

There is often a lot of negativity on this site, but I just wanted to give

Which do you prefer?

“Give me a deadline and I’ll get the work done”
or

“when I get this done I’ll let you know and we can figure out when the client will see it.”

What’s the most unprofessional thing you’ve seen in a deposition recently?

Hi Fishes,
What should be the salary for Manager / Sr Manager having 14+ yoe in project/product service operations? I am at 32 lpa which I think is quite low having worked with top consulting firms for close to 12 years.

Sean Hannity is Cohen’s previously undisclosed third client. Thoughts?

Do agencies rent spaces out in places like WeWork to give teams some autonomy away from the office?

What would be a good comp range for a Manager - Mangement Consulting in Toronto/GTA?

Still don’t really understood what the Song service group is about and how it’s different from Technology and S&C? Can anyone enlighten?

Hi,
Unable to DM. Pls suggest / help..

Have you ever worked on pharma/healthcare projects that you personally disagree with (whether i.e how they do business, their political affiliation, their drug pricing, etc)? What was that project like and how did you deal with it?

Anyone at Trinity feel like they are being pushed out?

I have recently received offer from jpmc as an associate of consumer and community banking, that means job grade will be 601?

Hi There,
I have recently got an offer from persistent. However, I am unable to login into my outlook for my Verification process. When I am trying to logging its showing this device isnt secured to join this network as per policy.
Can you help me?
P.S- Its my personal laptop.

Omega or Tag? Please advise.

I’m a new analyst at an IB group. I’ve felt that I’ve done well my first month or two and delivered higher quality work, but I feel that lately I’ve been slipping up the past few weeks given the intensity of the deal as well as having multiple peripheral work streams. It also doesn’t help the second year analyst quit so I don’t necessarily have a resource to lean into. (Cont.)

What is EY India associate consultant salaries?

Just did my baseline testing and got results. My appointment to discuss the results with my RE is in mid January. Any guides / ways I can start to interpret them on my own before then?

Midwest folks outside of Chicago!!! What is your industry, role, and salary?

PMP
Anyone studying for the PMP? What are your study tips?

Any book recommendations for the summer vacation season? What's your favorite book over the last year?

Big Law Dads: How much time do you usually take off when your wife has a baby? And do you actually get to take off, or do you just end up working from home half the time? My wife is due Mid-December, and I’m staffed on 4 M&A deals trying to close by year end, so it’s not looking promising.

What is the most “do as I say, not as I do” thing you’ve been told or punished/reprimaded for as an associate?

Hardest part of navigating maternity leave and WLB as a junior partner?

Has anyone moved into a non-legal role at a tech company after big law? Trying to figure out what else is out there if I do not want to go in house in a legal capacity.

Does anyone know how litigation finance works on the plaintiff side? If someone wanted to bring a lawsuit against their former employer would a general contingency arrangement with a plaintiff’s firm make sense? Or would one need to find funding and then contact a plaintiff’s firm to actually handle the case? I’m a transactional lawyer, so this is out of my wheelhouse.

I know some of my colleagues are recording their standard fees as time so that it counts towards their billable hours. It infuriates me but am I just being naive by not doing the same?

I am lead counsel on a case - we’re suing 3 businesses and my supervisor is a named incorporator of one of the businesses although he is not an officer. He is asking me to bring the file and meet with him about the progress of the case. I reminded him of the conflict and he stated that the conflict was resolved because he also has a claim against 1 of the companies that he recently filed separately. I don’t see how that resolved the conflict…and he’s fully pressuring me to meet. How to respond?

Last associates committee meeting is coming up. Partners have asked each associate to come up with... not one... but FIVE marketing ideas. Other than reeling out “we offer competitive pay” in job postings, what are some good ones your firm does?

I’m struggling a bit. If I knew how to market well, I certainly wouldn’t be in this position.

What do you do about computer problems? It just took me 24 minutes to send a .1 email due to my computer constantly freezing. Is it worth entering that time into non-billable? Or do I just stop whining and work longer to make it up?

I'm a third year plaintiff's employment law attorney and I'm looking to move to defense, preferably still in employment law. I received an offer from a midsize firm that primarily focuses on PI with little-to-no employment law practice, so I'll have a bit of a learning curve. Offer is $90k, billable hours of 2100. Is this reasonable? I'm dead-set on leaving my current job, and this would be a $20k pay increase - which makes me believe I'm leaning towards taking it for those reasons only.

Worried about potential recession and layoffs...

Negotiating a settlement. I’m at $10k, opposing counsel is at $20k. My client won’t go higher than $15k. OC has come down to 17.5k and says his client won’t budge from that. Do I offer 12.5k so we can hopefully meet in the middle at 15k? Is that how the settlement game is played? Seems dumb we can’t just say let’s meet in the middle now and be done with this. (I’m a first year, first time negotiating a settlement on my own and I don’t want to screw this up!)

When negotiating a sign on bonus with a new firm based on the fact that you were anticipating a bonus for that fiscal year and are leaving before that is paid out, do you have to do anything to prove you would have actually received a bonus/the amount of bonus you would have received?

What’s your take on Lydecker? What is the culture? Market salary? Expectation on billable hours? Mentorship? Etc.?

Best divorce lawyer in NYC?

I’ve felt seriously burned out at my firm for a long time, and now during this point in the year I’ve reached a new level of struggle in terms of trying to be productive. I’m hoping things will change in the new year but I find myself browsing fishbowl and Reddit and struggling to stay on task now more so than ever, and I’m feeling super guilty about it. On my plate in terms of work are reports that are basically data entry, and incredibly menial discovery responses. Help!

Workout before (4:30 am) or after (6:30ish) work?

Second year associate here. How should I deal with the one partner in my practice group who seems to exclusively give me lousy assignments that we’ll never get paid for? I get great work from everyone else.

For those of you required to be in office- do people use the phone and email to contact you or do they still come by in person? People in my office seem not to understand how the phone works...

I'm a junior associate. A couple people have left my small firm and I'm now the lone associate at our main office. I've now been told I am "temporary senior associate or permanent or partner whatever that results in." Please send help. I'm just a baby attorney still.