Trying to handle baby + big law and failing miserably. Talk me down.

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Piggybacking on PP..how can the quality of work be good at 4am with no sleep?

Called my lawyer and asked 1 question. He answered in less than 5 minutes. Got billed $400 (it's $1600/hour and 5 minutes gets rounded to 15).
You'd think that at those rates, they would not need to work so much. sharks!

BS. No one bills $1600/hr. The highest hourly rate I've ever heard of is $700/hr and you have to be representing Hollywood royalty or Enron to get away with that. Highly doubt PP is either.

You’re personal experience might be a bit limited. My husband bills out at about $1000/hour—he’s about 40 and at a really good firm, but, not a top firm and he’s not the highest rate in his firm. Plenty of people being billed out higher.

Yeah. Biglaw blew through the $1000/hour threshold about a decade ago.