Part-time at Big Law

cartera45
Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:23:52 +0000

Agree with sally - I don’t know of any biglaw firms that hire first years to work part time. It is rare that they hire experienced attorneys to work part time. However, the increases in salaries that necessitate increases in the billable hour rate are starting to cause the firms to consider more alternatives to partnership track. I have a position with a “biglaw” firm now for an experienced part time associate. The firm is concerned about continually increasing the billable hour rate so they want a non partnership track attorney to handle research, writing and trial prep. The firm typically starts associates at $160k and billables are likely at least 2100 hrs. There is an offer out at $140k with target billables at 1700 hrs. If this works well, I expect the firm to consider this in other departments as well.