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Looking to apply to IP lit boutiques and read they recently poached the leader of Finnegan's lit dept, have a SCOTUS clerk name partner, named Benchmark's SV firm of the year. But it seems like there's relatively no info about them online? Anyone know anything about them?

Reichman Jorgensen is very, very new. They were only founded two years ago (October of 2018). That's a big part of why there is little information about them online. I know some of the people involved, and think they are excellent lawyers, but keep in mind the firm is an experiment. They are trying a new, as yet unproven business model, and are still really tiny, even by boutique standards. The business model certainly looks interesting, and as a midlevel or higher attorney, that could be worth the risk. But if you are aplying as a first year (not sure if they are hiring those yet), you should go in with both eyes open. Even with as great as some of the attorneys involved are, with how new it is you cannot be sure the firm will last.

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Mon Sep 14, 2020 8:52 pm

Reichman Jorgensen is very, very new. They were only founded two years ago (October of 2018). That's a big part of why there is little information about them online. I know some of the people involved, and think they are excellent lawyers, but keep in mind the firm is an experiment. They are trying a new, as yet unproven business model, and are still really tiny, even by boutique standards. The business model certainly looks interesting, and as a midlevel or higher attorney, that could be worth the risk. But if you are aplying as a first year (not sure if they are hiring those yet), you should go in with both eyes open. Even with as great as some of the attorneys involved are, with how new it is you cannot be sure the firm will last.

Don't know much, but I do know personally some of their associates who are highly accomplished Yale/Stanford grads with clerkships.

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Mon Sep 14, 2020 8:52 pm

Reichman Jorgensen is very, very new. They were only founded two years ago (October of 2018). That's a big part of why there is little information about them online. I know some of the people involved, and think they are excellent lawyers, but keep in mind the firm is an experiment. They are trying a new, as yet unproven business model, and are still really tiny, even by boutique standards. The business model certainly looks interesting, and as a midlevel or higher attorney, that could be worth the risk. But if you are aplying as a first year (not sure if they are hiring those yet), you should go in with both eyes open. Even with as great as some of the attorneys involved are, with how new it is you cannot be sure the firm will last.

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Current associate. I can say that work inflow has been extremely high (especially after our $236 million win against VmWare), and that the firm derisks its contingency work by undertaking a lot of fixed-fee work.

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Fri Sep 18, 2020 11:46 am

Current associate. I can say that work inflow has been extremely high (especially after our $236 million win against VmWare), and that the firm derisks its contingency work by undertaking a lot of fixed-fee work.

Hey is it possible we can talk?

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Fri Sep 18, 2020 11:46 am

Current associate. I can say that work inflow has been extremely high (especially after our $236 million win against VmWare), and that the firm derisks its contingency work by undertaking a lot of fixed-fee work.

If you did bill, how many hours a month would you estimate?

Between 220 and 240 would be normal. Not having to do a write up at the end of the day, however, makes it feel like less, and the minimal number of meetings throughout the day makes things quite efficient.

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Mon Sep 21, 2020 9:07 am

Between 220 and 240 would be normal. Not having to do a write up at the end of the day, however, makes it feel like less, and the minimal number of meetings throughout the day makes things quite efficient.

So how many actual hours are you working a week?

60-65.

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Mon Sep 21, 2020 1:05 pm

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 21, 2020 9:07 am

Between 220 and 240 would be normal. Not having to do a write up at the end of the day, however, makes it feel like less, and the minimal number of meetings throughout the day makes things quite efficient.

So how many actual hours are you working a week?

240/30 = 8.

But that assumes there is no such thing as a weekend. Taking out four weekends a month (8 days):

240/30 = 10.9

So about 11 total, likely with variation up and down, and some work on weekends.

Real question is, is that a 240 equivalent of the "billable hour," or 240 in real time? Part of the reason billing something like 240 in a month is so draining is that, to do that, you are actually working a lot more (probably closer to 300 hours in a month). But if 240 is the all in actual time (including "nonbillable" sorts of things), 240 a month is not too bad for a firm.

To give some context, if someone worked a 240 billable month average, their year total would be about 2900. That's pretty crazy high. There are people who do that, but they don't do much else with their lives.