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Billing 3,000 hours?
There's an article at the ABA Journal online about an associate's bias suit against his former firm in which he alleges that the hourly billing requirements were 3,000 hours per year.
2,000 is pretty standard, which works out to billing forty hours a week over 50 weeks, assuming an associate can risk taking two weeks off during the year. Yes, yes, everyone works forty hours a week. But is everything you do billable? Not really. In order to bill forty hours in a week, you have to work between fifty and sixty hours. So in order to bill 60 hours a week (3,000/50), you'd have to work 80 or more hours? That's crazy. After a certain point, you are too tired to give value -- how does that figure in? It probably doesn't.
Am boggled.
2,000 is pretty standard, which works out to billing forty hours a week over 50 weeks, assuming an associate can risk taking two weeks off during the year. Yes, yes, everyone works forty hours a week. But is everything you do billable? Not really. In order to bill forty hours in a week, you have to work between fifty and sixty hours. So in order to bill 60 hours a week (3,000/50), you'd have to work 80 or more hours? That's crazy. After a certain point, you are too tired to give value -- how does that figure in? It probably doesn't.
Am boggled.