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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was on a 1600 billable track with full benefits for 80% of my salary.  They did not care when I worked so long as my billables were met and I was present for any meetings/court dates.  While this is a better arrangement than a set 4-day week (which strikes me as pointless as something will always come up on a day off) it still was not ideal as you basically still need to always be available to work late/weekends, which seems to happen a lot in litigation.  I needed to bill, on average, 133 hours a month (as opposed to 166 hours) which was about 5 hours a day (assuming 26 work days in a month).  But if there is a holiday/sick day/vacation I needed to bill extra to build that in.  So say you want holidays off, plus 2 weeks vacation, plus 5 sick days, that is 25 days off for the year -- that is basically an extra month (ie, 133 hours) you need to bill.  So now instead of billing 1600 hours, you need to bill 1730 hours.  I found the billable hour tracking stressful and I was obsessed with billing and constantly checking to see if I was "ahead" of my billables so I could take vacation!

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But isn't this true of all law firm jobs, not just part time law firm jobs?  [/quote]

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