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For DC biglaw: What is "market" vacation time?
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 8:47 pm
by Anonymous User
3 weeks or 4?
Re: For DC biglaw: What is "market" vacation time?
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 8:48 pm
by Emma.
Lol
Re: For DC biglaw: What is "market" vacation time?
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 8:49 pm
by gk101
There is no such thing
Re: For DC biglaw: What is "market" vacation time?
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 8:51 pm
by Anonymous User
gk101 wrote:There is no such thing
Let me put it differently, what do firms who have a limited vacay period set it at.
Re: For DC biglaw: What is "market" vacation time?
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 8:54 pm
by gk101
Anonymous User wrote:gk101 wrote:There is no such thing
Let me put it differently, what do firms who have a limited vacay period set it at.
Let me put it differently. There is no set vacation period specific to DC. Most firms will have the usual 3-4 weeks that they list in your offer sheet. In practice, I have rarely heard of firms counting no. of days taken off so long as you have your hours and the partners you work with are okay with you taking time off
Re: For DC biglaw: What is "market" vacation time?
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 8:55 pm
by rpupkin
Re: For DC biglaw: What is "market" vacation time?
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 9:53 pm
by Anonymous User
What is LOL is not taking all your vacay time. Nobody ever tells you should take a vacay.
Re: For DC biglaw: What is "market" vacation time?
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 10:20 pm
by wiseowl
Actually, what's LOL is saying the word "vacay."
Re: For DC biglaw: What is "market" vacation time?
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 10:45 pm
by jarofsoup
More senior associates at some firms take vacations. But the one I work under said it is impossible to get away more than a week a year.
You have to think about the fact that you probably will never be able to be out of pocket ever.
Re: For DC biglaw: What is "market" vacation time?
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 8:36 am
by gk101
It's not as difficult to take vacations (even week long ones) in biglaw as people make it out to be. You just have to be really flexible in your schedule and will likely have to pay a higher cost for booking stuff last minute. If you are working with reasonable partners, you can plan stuff well in advance and be okay. The $30 trip insurance charge is probably still worth it now.
It's the day-to-day unpredictability that is truly awful. Getting an email asking you to make your way back to the office on a weekend or at 10 PM is fucking miserable. Even the reasonable partners assume they have a monopoly on your time