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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you bill honestly, 1900 hours is a LOT in most practice areas. Worse than it sounds until you’ve been through it.  At a lot of firms, Big Law is struggling with demand/market share challenges at the moment, so I wouldn’t undervalue the stability of an agency job at this stage of life.  Work dries up and you can find yourself on the street pretty quickly, especially as a relatively new relatively senior hire. FWIW I would not make the move just for comp, go only if it’s something you *really* want to do. [/quote]

I disagree - if the work is there and you are efficient, 1900 is pretty simple to achieve.  Not easy, but simple.

The issue, OP, isn't with the billable hours.  You are coming into a "partner-track senior associate position" - that means you will be expected to take on significant business generation activities.  Even if you're in a pipeline specialty, where you don't necessarily have to generate your own business because you will have work fed to you by other partners, you'll still be expected to help with business development.  It's those hours that really make Biglaw difficult - every hour you spend on them is one less that you can bill.  [/quote]

This, the business generation aspect can be a huge shift.  Most of my friends who jumped from agency to law firms later in their careers specifically avoided partner track positions for this reason.[/quote]

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