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)

@satvik2728

2 жыл бұрын

Hey?

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

@bobhey4969

11 ай бұрын

People hate in the 9-5 but try making six figures without a job hell even 60k

@sergei5106

10 ай бұрын

Its not 9-5, its 8 to 10

@Tony99_xx_

6 ай бұрын

@@bobhey4969without a job? Bro what

@rollericarus

14 күн бұрын

Big law is unfortunately not a 9-5, but in turn, lawyers will retire stacked with millions many years before the average person would even consider retiring and probably without financial stability at that.

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

@CeceXie

2 жыл бұрын

billables are lower for partners but non-billables increase. it doesn’t ever get to be less work, which is one of the reasons i left

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.?

@CeceXie

2 жыл бұрын

totally depends on the firm and the group. my two firms had wildly different views of reduced hours

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

@CeceXie

2 жыл бұрын

i just use the timer that came with my law firm's timekeeping system--it's not really much of a system!

@swethaloganathan9272

2 жыл бұрын

Makes Sense. Thank you 😊

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

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

@CeceXie

2 жыл бұрын

generally, associates need to hit an annual billable amount to get their bonus. my old firm was 1950 billable hours for the year (and this is about normal for other firms)

@nzmanhdee6246

2 жыл бұрын

@@CeceXie that’s around 40 hr a week minimum. Dang, that means you usually go OT

@CeceXie

2 жыл бұрын

except there’s no such concept as OT for associates bc we’re just salaried

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

@CeceXie

Жыл бұрын

depends on the firm. some firms penalize partners who write off billed time, which effectively hurts the realization rate, while others are more liberal with allowing those write-offs

What type of lawyer are you? Like what specific field

@CeceXie

2 жыл бұрын

privacy and data security

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

@CeceXie

Ай бұрын

yes

@Sasuke_Uchiha_055c

Ай бұрын

@@CeceXie wow , it's so nice to listen to 🫠

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

@CeceXie

2 жыл бұрын

it’s honestly not that bad if you find it interesting and enjoy gaining the experience and learning. i don’t think anyone would ever say i was unwell at the firm

I thought you left Law?

@yuanyuan9992

2 жыл бұрын

It's billable hours records from 2020.

Have you left law now?

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

@vittuilutili24

Жыл бұрын

What video did you watch? There was no such weekend

Who cares!!!