Hello. I am a junior lit associate looking to lateral. I'm looking at the NALP pages of three firms A, B, and C in one of the major markets (NYC, LA, SF, Chicago etc) and saw that billable hours vary quite a lot and do not really correlate with salary. For example,
[*]$180K/Firm A requires a minimum billable of 1900 and bonus requirement of 2200. That 300 additional hours required for bonus can come from 100 additional billable hours, and 200 from pro bono and firm slacker time, which effectively makes it 2000 billable hour requirement.
$160K/Firm B requires a minimum of 1850 and bonus requirement of 2050-2200. That 250-350 additional hours can come from 100 hours of pro bono and rest billable + firm time. Average associate billable hours worked is 1780-1790 (WTF).
$160K/Firm C requires 2000 billable hours and no info on salary.
To me at this point, Firm B seems most attractive because although you get about $20K pay cut, 1785 of billable hours seems too good to be true. My question is, is the NALP page info reliable? I know generally that all biglaw life sucks but assuming that ppl are nice, isn't firm B basically the ideal scenario? Or are most firms equally shitty and you generally end up billing 2000+ despite what the NALP page says? Thank you very much for your insight.
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Re: Billable requirement question at large firms
Typo.
$160K/Firm C requires 2000 billable hours and no info on salary.
Salary was meant bonus.
$160K/Firm C requires 2000 billable hours and no info on salary.
Salary was meant bonus.
