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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Biglaw attorney, one toddler

6:45 Wake up
7 AM breakfast with kiddo OR walk the dog (spouse and I alternate)
8 AM out the door for school
8:30 AM work from home
Bill until 11 AM (meetings, briefs, filings, etc)
11 AM lunch
11:30 back to the grind
4:30 pick up toddler
Either make dinner or play with toddler (spouse and I alternate)
5:30 dinner
6 PM bath for toddler
7:15 PM bedtime
7:30 log back on to bill (with TV on in the background)
10 PM close computer unless theres a true emergency
10-11 PM personal time (reading a book, quality time with SO)

Spouse is also a big law attorney
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In the 9.5 hours you work a day how many hours do you regularly bill? Are you able to make your 2000 hour (give or take) minimum for the year?  Does your billing hours also include business development and other admin related tasks that you can't bill for? My DH is in big law and routinely works closer to 10-12 hour days in order to make his 2000 hour requirement. BUT he has a lot of admin hours (he is the staffing partner for his group) and a lot of business development hours.  [/quote]

I'm just a (senior) associate - I get the feeling partners have a lot more non-billable work and quite frankly, I'd be more than happy staying a senior associate, doing what i'm doing, for half a mill until I can retire. That being said, I always make my target (1900). I'd say I bill on average about 8 hours a day. I'll do the occasional weekend evenings (so spillover of 6 more hours), some late nights (getting to the midnight/1 AM area, which gets me 2-3 more hours that day), and then, because I'm a litigator, any trial will net about 300 billable hour for the month it falls, so I'll  get a billable hour "infusion" once or twice a year

Also, we can typically bill for case management for a particular matter (or at least get credit for it), which makes it easier. We get billable hour credit for marketing, which also cuts some dead air away. Can't bill for stuff like email organization, document organization, travel, running pro formas, time entry, training associates, etc.

Staffing partner would be a ton of non-billable hours though. Thats legitimately a full time job at some firms.[/quote]

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