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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don't need to bill anything close to 2300 to keep the checks coming.  This is DC, not NY.[/quote]

Hah. My dh in dc billed over 3000 last year and feels he needs to bill over 2400 to avoid getting fired.[/quote]

Your DH [b]billed[/b], on average, 58 hours a week? I call bullshit. Working 60+ hours a week, sure, but you can't bill every waking minute unless you're doing some [i]serious[/i] fraudulent puffery on your billables.[/quote]

Yes, over 3000 billables. He was working 18 hour days for weeks at a time and 14 to 16 otherwise. He did not bill fraudulently. He was often stuck in conference rooms at least 12 hours a day, allowed out only for bathroom breaks as meals were ordered in, and then had to continue working after the meetings were over.

He did not get enough sleep and ate horrible food ordered in practically every meal and never got to work out. It was awful for his health. Billing 2400 seemed like vacation in comparison.[/quote]

He's lying to you. No client is paying for 12+ hrs a day for "weeks at a time."   :roll: [/quote]

Incorrect. I used to do large transactional work at a BigLaw and those deals frequently required 4-5 days a week at the client site all day, drafting at night and on weekends to prep for the next days' meetings. I would easily bill 260-280 a month, and some months were worse. My "best" month during my time in BigLaw hell was 317.

I did one deal where the closing negotiations were a week-long marathon where both teams went to the clients' offices and ran meetings around the clock, and we had rooms at the next door hotel where people would shower and nap.

It's bad for your health and I'm very glad to be out of it.

But, yes, clients do pay for 12+ hours a day for weeks at a time because the legal fees are dwarfed by the value of the deal. [/quote]

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