Whew! That's a lot of your life... this law firm job better be AMAZING and challenging and fantastic and energizing because I will give them everything except my left kidney. Here's the latest from a blog I just discovered:
http://www.stanford.edu/~bruck/pdfs/nyc_billables.pdf
This is a website built by students (I'm still in the club!) using their grass roots skills to watch
each other's proverbial backs. The above post is billable hours, as reported to NALP for 2006. The kicker is that most big firms did not even report average hours. I'd love some input on "average hours" for big firms. I want to know if I am being chained to a desk excessively or just normally. Here are some of the Big Law firms that did not report in: Cleary Gottlieb,
Covington & Burling, Cravath, Fried, Frank, Fulbright & Jaworski, Gibson Dunn, Hughes Hubbard, Kaye Scholer, Latham & Watkins, O'Melveny & Meyers, Orrick, Paul Weiss,
Pillsbury Winthrop, Sidley Austin, Skadden Arps, and White & Case. Of the ones reporting, Akin Gump was the "winner" with 2,040 average billables.
What has been your experience?
P.S. What is up with the California tri-plex: Gibson Dunn, Latham & Watkins, and O'Melveny & Myers not reporting hours. Did they report for 2007? Shame on them.
The crew from building a better legal system also has a facebook site, but it doesn't seem like either are all that active anymore... anyone out there from either site? Here's the facebook link:
http://stanford.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5041493562
Update: (April 25, 2008) - it seems like the students who run these sites are MIA... much of the info is super old... any word on the people who started this amazing effort? Can we bring them back? Are they locked in a doc review somewhere?
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