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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Were there partners who recruited you and who give you work? Those are the ones you need to be reaching out for more work and advice as to whether they'll protect you until you can get your hours in line with expectations.  Partners are very competitive and look to undermine each other. It sounds like one big honcho already has it in for you, likely as a means to assert his dominance over other partners with whom you've worked. He's looking out for his own grunts, who'll have even higher hours if you aren't billing time every now and then.

It's not beyond salvaging if you can get more work and send a different message about your ambitions, but you've been very naive to date. [b]The fact the firm didn't give you full credit for your seniority when you started was a good indication they didn't really think your prior experience was all that valuable to their practice.[/b][/quote]

Are you in DC biglaw (meaning DC HQ or a firm w a big DC presence)? What were you doing at DOJ? Bc I think the prior PP is right -- I haven't seen new associates not get credit for their time at DOJ.

As for beyond salvaging - it's a know your own firm type of issue and OP clearly isn't understanding firm dynamics. In the DC office of my biglaw firm there are 2 huge rainmakers in litigation and if one of them had the preceding opinion, it would be beyond salvaging AND you wouldn't realize it bc the other pansies in the partnership WOULD say the right words to "support" you if you came to them with concern but then at the year end meeting where they discuss associate reviews, they'd sit there quietly and nod along so as not to piss off the rainmakers - bc at the end of the day they are looking out for their own trajectory at the firm, not yours. I say move on. Call a recruiter. Talk to the small firm that reached out to you. Reach out to your DOJ colleagues you've left to see how it is at their firms to see if you can get a few resumes in that way. Don't just sit around hoping it'll get better - these things rarely do.[/quote]

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