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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do the math. Assuming 2 or 3 weeks vacation a year, that implies 40 hours of billable work per week. I'm not a lawyer but I would imagine there's at least 30% of your time that's not billable, so if I were you, I'd assume that implied 60 hours a week of work, or 12h a day. I'd also imagine it's spikey - I doubt it's a constant stream of 40 hours a week, so I could see the 4th quarter becoming a mad scramble to get more time in.

My 2 cents, which is worth very little as I'm not a lawyer, is that it's probably not going to be remotely kid friendly. [/quote]

I am also a non lawyer but my spouse used to work at a large firm and this does indeed hit the nail on the head. The only thing I have to add is that if you are at a firm or in a practice group where the culture is to bill 2100, or compete with the highest billing attorneys, you're not going to feel as if you can even stop at 1950.

Personally, it was not manageable for our family to have even the second-in-command parent work like this. [/quote]

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