What is the most you billed in a month?

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101, it was a rough month!

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Some of yall are lying

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But I think we can all agree at least two people ITT lied. That doesn’t mean it’s impossible to bill that much, but it DOES mean at least two people embellished how much they billed. I’ll be a monkey’s uncle if a few folks didn’t embellish, and that’s that on that.

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Also laughing and wondering if A29 was opposite me on one of my deals that month 😀

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2500

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240 (only billables) closer to 300 when you add in recruiting, client events, non billable work that needs to be tracked.

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This string is scary 😱 No thank you

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377....it got to a point where I understood why biglaw offices didn't have windows that could open

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341 and I wanted to die

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350, and it took months to recover

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301. This was also back-to-back with 250-hour months before and after so ended up being a 3-month stretch totaling 800+ hours.

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394. Never again.

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292. Never want to do that again.

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