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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd update your resume and put out some feelers to recruiters, OP.

How were your billables? [/quote]

[b]Low billables.[/b] But the market has been slow for our group in general. [/quote]
I wouldn’t keep riding on the good performance review from last year.

How does your firm normally handle performance issues? Is it multiple warnings/a PIP? Or immediate separation?[/quote]

Not sure how the firm handles performance issues or “[b]fake performance issues”[/b]. I know of one case where an associate was told at his performance review for the year that he had low hours and there is no “business case” for him to make partner. He quit shortly after and went to a new firm. [/quote]
Well it’s not fake performance issues. You said you’ve had low billings. You know you’re not meeting your hours.[/quote]

This is true, unfortunately.  The way firm economics are set up is that poor quality high billing associates are profitable, but excellent quality low billing associates are not.  So when firms talk about "performance" and "meeting performance", they mostly mean hours targets.

The poor quality associates eventually get pushed out, either because as they get more senior they need to be better quality, or because a recession rolls around and their hours fall as partners have the choice to use better associates. [/quote]

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