Is 150 hours a month / 1800 a year a reasonable billable requirement? That sounds really high to me for an hourly position.

Sounds like the role would be focused on discovery in insurance defense, so I would anticipate issues with hours being cut...

Right now I do hybrid LA/Para, and I'm the only staff who works my cases. Would love to hear your thoughts on a discovery-only role and the billables...

Thanks in advance!

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Not reasonable as a paralegal. That is normal for attorneys. Paralegals still have some administrative tasks to do so we can’t bill for all of hour working hours. 1400 per year is normal. 1500 is doable, 1600 is pushing it.

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I was told serving and POS are admin and non billable. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I believe the firm offers about 18 days of PTO plus an estimated 11 federal holidays which totals up to 29 working days lost over the year. Divide that by 5 days in a week, and you get a total of 5.8 weeks taken out of the 52 weeks in a year...divvy up the 1800 hours over 46 weeks (just rounding up the 5.8 weeks to 6), and you've gotta be billing 39 hours a week, realistically, I believe.

This sounds doable only if working 45-50 hours a week, correct?

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I do insurance defense, and my billable hour expectation is 125 hours a month (or 1500/year). It can be brutal.

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Yes that is High for paralegal time. Our associates are expected to do 1850, paralegals 1550 annually.

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Mine is 1400 and it’s brutal

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if you ensure 80-90% of your work is billible this is pretty standard and not difficult

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My last firm was 1650. We got credit for what work we did, even if time got cut. I typically billed close to, or right at, 2000 hours. The more we billed, the higher our bonus was so it never bothered me.

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That’s pretty high, but like you said if you’re task-working, it is probably easier to reach. I would expect a lot of OT.

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That seems high. I’m at Biglaw, and we’re 1650, 1700 for a bonus. I’m annualizing way above that, but some groups are slow and I think most are below it.

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That's an associate requirement. Mine is 30/wk. When I'd bill significantly beyond that on a regular basis, burn out happened. Then I landed in the hospital.

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