Truth Behind Horror Stories in Big Law?

brownug
Sun, 14 Jul 2013 02:13:02 +0000

Let’s see how many pages we can push this thread. …j/k :D

Actually, I really do have a follow-up to the whole long hours thing mentioned earlier. I know that the hours of any given week can vary (which is the tough part, due to unpredictability) and that on average you’ll likely be working around 60 (is that correct?) hours per week.

Two follow-up questions:

1.) Is there any ratio (roughly) for how many hours you must work in order to generate an actual billable hour? zoosermom mentioned before that there’s a difference between billable hours and actual hours worked.

2.) What’s the breakdown like usually like for the work being done per hour (I know this will vary depending on the day, but just thought I’d ask anyhow)? E.g., for a 12 hour day, would it be something like:

5 hours of research/reading
3 hours of typing
2 hours of client interaction
2 hours of “thinking” (made that up)

…sort of just curious about a typical day’s worth of work, but also for any other unique kinds of days as well (e.g. will there be days where you may spend all of it just reading?).

TA!