Junior biglaw partner here, I’m struggling with balancing the time needed to do BD (have a small book but not enough to sustain me fully but I want to grow it) and servicing other partners work (still have high hours requirement to hit). Any partners that have gone through the same thing and how did you handle?

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Still an associate but I was shocked to learn at my Biglaw firm that new income partners still have to meet the 2k hours requirement while also meeting a BD hours requirement. Seems like the worst of both worlds…good luck to you.

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I was really surprised by the billable hours requirement as well!

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It’s not fair or doable. To add to this, I had my second as a junior partner and felt like I needed to stay in touch while on mat leave with the handful of clients I had

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Same boat - it is not a real leave. I had a surrogate and someone told me it was more like paternity leave since I didn’t have a baby. It was not respected. It’s pretty much impossible to take months off as a partner

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Judging by the partners at my firm … have you considered padding your billables?

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