Was looking for some feedback on a work situation I'm currently in.

I understand it's consulting work but:
- I've had very little actually billable work to do for over 3 months.
- There is ongoing pressure on the content of timesheets despite the lack of work
- When there is work, it's always underquoted for time, so it always requires out of hours work
- When I tell my bosses I have nothing to do they will often be over 24 hours in responding.

Is it time to cut my losses here and move on?

How many billable hours do people in prosecution tend to average each month? I’ve gone through waves of feeling like my billable hours requirement is reasonable to feeling like I’m drowning and can’t possibly do it for that long.

Looking to leave a govt job for a junior attorney role in a small workers comp defense firm. I have no experience in workers comp. How easy is it to learn the work and make 1850 billable hours? What future opportunities does this experience give?

Can you share first year salary for midsize firms? I'm in NJ, but curious to hear other markets. Also billable targets? Thanks!

Received a job offer. Was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on a concern I had about it. It's an entry level position, and I don't have much experience. The billables are 2040 a year. For billable hours in civil litigation and insurance defense, is 2040 hours for a 1st year associate on the high end in this field for a small or midsize firm? It seems like most attorneys I know have minimum requirements of around 1800. The compensation is around 80k a year.

Any insight into Jackson Lewis NYC office? Compensation, billable hours, WLB? I would be a 2-3 year

Does industry have billable hours? At the big 4, we are required to work a certain number of hours each week and if we spend too much time on anything we are questioned on why it took so long. Is that a thing when you go in industry?

Is it just me or the average billable work in infrastructure transactions has blown off steam in the last couple of weeks?

What are firm’s known billable requirements? Is there a ramp up period?

Are any other paralegals struggling with billable hour requirements? I have 5 years of experience in corporate transactions, M&A, and real estate work, and have never had billable hour requirements. I'm in a new job now where I do and I'm nowhere near meeting them. I'm getting a lot more admin work than billable work, and it's stressing me out.

If you are a first year in a stub year, and significantly under billable hours requirement, do firms typically still give pro rated bonus? Do first year stub associates really ever hit their pro rated hours in those 2-3 months?

Does anyone run a business in addition to their firm? I’m a solo and I’m doing pretty well with about 60-70 billable hours a month. Though that leaves a lot of downtime. Curious if anyone has any second businesses that require about 20 hours a week. Not looking for passive income or franchise ideas though.

Mental health is busy, looking for tips to help manage tasks, currently I supervise 12 therapists in 3 different departments that are all different with unique dynamics in each dept. I still carry a small caseload on top of this. I'm struggling with my patients and worry I am not giving them my best, I wax and wane between focusing on patients and therapists. Looking for advice navigating this type od conversation with my leadership, we have all been asked to work on increase billable time...

Doing a federal clerkship and thinking of my options after. Anyone in NJ/NY/PA biglaw lit group with collegial and pleasant work environment? I do not care about billable requirements/workload, just salary and don’t want to be treated like shit.

How do firms give bonuses to associate attorneys? Quarterly, monthly, annually? What is a bonus based on? Money recieved, billable hours, etc?

I'm looking to set up a bonus structure for a new associate.

I’m a 9th year in a mostly litigation-based practice group at a one-tier partnership firm. My group’s billable hours have been low the last few years, so making partner will be nearly impossible, and a counsel position is not viable long-term in my group. What’s the best option here if partnership is the ultimate goal? Try to get a NEP/counsel position at another firm, which is likely difficult in my market, or offer to take a class cut by a few years?

Have any of you taken "low bono" clients while working at a firm? I want to take on a low bono client or two but not sure who would get the money. This is a contract opportunity through a non profit so I'm assuming a 1099 will be issued. The per hour rate is significantly less than my billable rate. I would (obviously) like the money but my real objective is just getting experience/networking since I recently moved to a new state and don't have clients of my own.

Does anyone have experience working for a ALSP? How does compensation work (pay and benefits)? Are you an employee or technically an IC? Do you have billable requirements like at a firm? How do you think it prepared you to potentially move in house? I'm currently at a firm but thinking of taking a position with an ALSP but my goal is to go in house.

Anyone working as a 2 years + lawyer for Fragomen in Canada can share their salaries and working advantages? (holidays, billable hours etc). Got an interview coming up and want to make sure not to under-sale my profile!

To the post below- it is quiet, so I’ll bite!
Does anyone know about associate compensation at the regional Atlantic Canada firms? The the big ones have all been posting job ads for associates in the 3-5 year range. Any insight on salary and billable targets?

If I invest 50k in NPS, I would save 7k this year as per my tax calculation. Is this a good deal? In general, I don't like such long term investment, maybe I'd start that when I'm 35 but not today.

Hi Fishes,
Need 11 likes for DM. Pls help me out & thanks in advance.

What’s the standard RTO (return to office) plan for MBB as of now?

Is Mindtree taking more time than usual to release offer letter after marge has happened?

Hi Fishies,

Please give some advice/input , Need to know the names of good Product/Service based organizations which have good WORK LIFE BALANCE, Good Environment to work.

Skills : C# .Net Developer, WPF/WCF.

Hii.. what will be the timings for AYDE???

How is the transport facility in hsbc development center Hyderabad ?

Every moment I’m away makes me realize how fragile the reasons I stay in the city. How can the city survive the urban flight? Will you stay and why? (I’m staying as long as I can)

Subletting my university city apartment at 3600 Lancaster Avenue. DM for details

Are text message breakups acceptable? Better than complete ghosting right

Have to give a massive shout out to one of our overlooked group of colleagues, the RT team. Thank you!

Moving to London in September - looking for a place to live! Any recommendations on neighborhoods?

Hi! Excited we have a space finally :)

Hi Guys,

How are the opportunities in data analytics domain for a Msc Physics as a fresher. And can you suggest some good online platforms.

What are fund accountant at admin currently making (i.e CITCO, MORGAN STANLEY,SS&C, NT? )

Please provide the below information:
Company
Position
Years at company
Salary
Bonus

Last year I moved internally from a
Paralegal level 11 w/ 14 yrs exp at
$100k base + up to 8% bonus to my
current role as compliance manager
level 9 at $123k base + up to 35%
bonus. I was above cap in my prior
role and now my range is up to $138k
base. I'm being recruited to my old
team as a level 10
Manager with
same base/bonus as now but since it's
a lower level I will cap out within a
year. I always found the legal work
more interesting but limited in career
growth. Not sure what to do.

What would be the first thing you do after this pandemic over?

What are the best Sales books y’all read?

Coffee or green tea?

Pwc folks, do vacation hours roll over FY to FY? Is there limitation?

Oh my god! I just finished a 20 minute ad-hoc presentation to my team where I was sharing my screen and I didn't realize that chrome had shortened the "streaming analytics" tab to "streaming anal" 😶

Deloitte guys - Serious question.
How is Analytics & Cognitive doing at D? I have an offer and I am not sure if there will be layoffs again. I am on work visa so will be difficult.
Role will be for Google Cloud & Analytics. Current job doesn't suck much though.

Best consulting firms for the retail and CPG industries?

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Can't tell if I'm less productive on Fridays after lunch, or Monday mornings 🤔

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How are you doing with your 2017 resolutions?

The EMMYS 🏆

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Anyone here in the FTO group? How is it?

Is anyone willing to send me a CV template? Btw, I just need a temple and it's not for consulting position. It's for a job at Intel!

Next week is my last week at my current firm and I need to take bereavement leave. How to go about asking? I have a lot of work to do still, but obviously can’t miss the funeral

I'm thankful for my guitar and the one slayer song I learned when I was in in 8th grade every time the person in the room next to me is being loud. Literally works every time.

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With the birth of a newborn, wondering if I should be putting money into a dependent care FSA. Pros/Cons?