weekend work in biglaw

[orthodoxboxing]

One life. That’s all we have. I’m doing my best to escape the 9-5. Misery.

[kevinturtlee]

Are these firm billed hours? Because that is rough as hell. My budget’s 30 billable hours a week, but avg working hours is 45-50 hrs with 40 billed. (I’m in australia, biglaw)

[Michelle-jcgr]

This is such good working advice in general, thank you!

[swethaloganathan]

Heyyy. I really look upto your work. It would be really great if you can share your personal system of maintaining time records. Maybe it's a software but an outline of personal system would be really great to make a rough one myself

[kar_prz]

How does it look like later in career, about same or at some point you can just do avg 40h weeks with free weekends?

[jaws]

How do you think firms generally view associates that choose a reduced hours schedule (lets say reduced hours by 20-25%) ? I know it depends on the circumstance, but do partners view them as lesser, not committed to the firm, or have less chance of making partner, etc.?

[WillKalili]

does realization rate play a role in law firm billing? I'm on a similar billable hourly requirement at an accounting firm but if you spend say 10 hours on something that only ends up getting billed for 5 hours, the extra 5 hours spend hurts the realization rate

[-.TS.-]

“Billable Hours”. Depends on the industry but typically hours you can charge to your client is vastly underreported.

[esto]

Do you need to do some fixed amount of hours? Or is it more based on the workload.

[Leo-rbsp]

What type of lawyer are you? Like what specific field

[typowers]

Why do you do that with your voice at the end of each sentence lol

[kelanclark]

Is all this work really worth the money? Are you happy? You seem unwell

[SerialCommenterc]

I have a question 🤔
Is that really your voice ? 😮

[mr.ssj]

Wow. Complaining for 30 min of work on the weekends....