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My satellite office has two partners that serve as so-called Workflow Coordinators. They are not in my group, and I do not work with them. I get all my work from my practice group, and they haven’t given me an assignment in over 3 years.

Twice in the last week they’ve reached out to me about projects that aren’t related to my practice. I’m coming off a 250-hour month and according to a monthly tracker my firm has for associate hours across all practice groups, I’m up the upper 1/3 of hours.

I’ve truthfully said I’m at full capacity both times and got pushback on the second time. What’s the potential fallout of ticking off partners I don’t work for? I wouldn’t do anything stupid, but I think dropping a comment about my hours being in the top-third of associates could be warranted if they push back again. I haven’t and don’t need them to exceed my hours.

Tell the partners in your practice group. The last thing they want is their star biller who does their work get tied up on matters for other partners, let alone non-practice related.

yeah, I would say that you don't think you have the bandwidth and that they should reach out to partners you're actually working for if they have issues

Go to the partners in your practice group and say something the lines of "the workflow coordinators want me to take on projects outside the practice, but I don't want it to interfere with my work for you, what do you think? OK, great, I'll refer them to you if they give me pushback."