So one partner that I have no assignments with and is outside my practice group asks me to pull cases for him all the time. I don’t have time for it (my billables show for it) and he doesn’t ask male associates to do it. What I’ve been doing is ignoring his emails instead. Is this stupid? Can I even get in trouble? I’ve been trying to figure out how I could possibly get in trouble, and I just feel like he wouldn’t have valid arguments if he escalated. Anyways, I hate him lol.

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Do you mean he has the cites and is asking you to pull the cases and send to him? If that’s what you mean, that’s absurd. I’d send that to his admin. That’s not even paralegal work…unless his admin doesn’t have login credentials. If that’s the case, then paralegal.

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Forward to admin/paralegal and cc him.

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Agree. I do this for partners that give me billable work, and then I bill for it. I would not do it off the clock. That is not my problem. This is wrong.

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Bill aggressively for the time you take in his cases and use the most admin, absurd descriptions that you can, and he will have to justify the bill to the client or write it off. Or, tell him you can’t get to it until X date (X date being some time in the future that’s too late) and loop in the paralegals to see if they can get to it faster.

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Not sure … this sounds like “that’s not my job” attitude which is never really a good thing to have in a workplace. I guess frequency matters to some degree.

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Yep. So 0.1 to search their email, which then gets rolled into whatever they needed the email for to begin with. As opposed to 0.3 to task it to another billing employee.

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This used to happen to me a lot. Requests to pull cases, make pdfs, print n letterhead. Actually mostly from female partners. I eventually started copying the partners when I forwarded it on to my assistant (or sometimes their assistant). It maybe helped a little.

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At my firm, one of the older partners occasionally does this (if he’s traveling and just needed the pdf quickly), but he asks law clerks to do it, and he spreads the wealth. I agree that it’s certainly not a task for a full time associate who has plenty of billable work to do.

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Do you have a mentor that you can discuss this with? Can any of the partners you do work with intervene? The best approach may well be to ask if you can talk to him for a few minutes and then explain what’s on your mind. There may be an innocuous reason or he may be clueless. Bottom line - this is a paralegal task. An admin trained on legal software should also be able to help.

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