Looking to make the move from a boutique firm to a much bigger firm (Toronto). My biggest question is how are people billing 9-10 hours a day at big law firms? What are you working on? How long are you at the office on those days?

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I’m at a midsized firm of about 160 attorneys and, although July was slow, I generally have more than 8 hours of work to do in a day. My target is 160 per month. Today I’m at 6 and am now turning to revisions on an asset purchase agreement for the acquisition of a pharmacy. I had a closing earlier for a dermatology practice acquisition that I billed like 2.5 for today. Had a bunch of smaller matters that added up to about 3.2.

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Thanks that’s helpful. Sounds very similar to what I do except I have to do all of my own admin…😣. Bogs me down a lot.

Depends on many factors (practice area, YOE, firm size, client/deal size), but every day is different, some days you bill 8 hours to one client if you’re going through diligence or drafting a diligence memo, and you get those extra few hours keeping up with other projects. Truly depends on how many projects you are on and how lean projects are staffed. With greater pay comes greater expectation to hit or exceed your target and big firms have plenty of work to get you there

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Billing is extremely fun at law firms. Some bill per attorney, then assign staff to the attorney and then it goes on deadlines and priority - ie the PM style. Others bill by department and have multiple attorneys in each department then itemize the tasks so that the attorneys are the approvers and the communicators and the knowledgeable go to and the staff are then itemized by specific tasks for each department workload but multiple clients only as marked by the department and under multiple attorneys. Sometimes attorneys bend that style a little when they prefer one staff over another for a specific task, or they find more movement from the judge towards one staff for submittals. Sometimes it is worse, it's department then split by attorney then staff of that department assigned to a specific attorney but it's social mechanicism because the staff members are grouped by tasks and then meet together as a task group then break off into their department and attorney assignments.

When I get bored, I ask a staff member or attorney if there's anything they need help with, then bill for that notating it was cross departmental, unless I'm specifically told the psychology requires that I don't take on any assignments from any specific person or department.

I wonder the same thing. I’m in the US though and lateraled from boutique lit to a large transactional. Have no idea how to hit those targets

Hit a few nice 200+ months, and it will seem very within reach 😂

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