FF have not done this to fend off asshurts, it's to fend off the US big fellas like K&E or Latham (both of which pay somewhat substantially north of 100 to their 24 year olds as I understand it...)
Yes, it's against the US firms. But a 24 year old does not merit anything like £100k, no matter how well-regarded the firm employing them. Until you're 5 years pqe, basically you're a CP and ancillary docs gimp.
That the meme espoused by Badders at 1429 still persists is a testament to MC marketing/propaganda. Badders you've been reamed harder than most lawyers I have ever met.
I don't think I'd feel right from an ethical point of view spending two minutes dealing with a short e-mail and billing a client for 20 minutes. It feels bad enough rounding it up to six minutes.
Reminds me of the tale told too gleefully by one of my ex-colleagues. Tale of a bloke who used to come in at 7:30, call 6 active clients leaving a voicemail to check in on the deal and then leave by 7:45 to get breakfast knowing he’d already bagged 1.5 billables. Plus at least another 1.5 when he got called back.
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All of them.
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Eleventy hundred?
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Twelvety!
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The thing is, the billables will not be dissimilar to somewhere like a Ashurst etc., so those firms will be losing NQs to the MC purely on dolla.
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Do we reckon the pay rise means they now have to pay for their own lube?
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FF have not done this to fend off asshurts, it's to fend off the US big fellas like K&E or Latham (both of which pay somewhat substantially north of 100 to their 24 year olds as I understand it...)
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Yes, it's against the US firms. But a 24 year old does not merit anything like £100k, no matter how well-regarded the firm employing them. Until you're 5 years pqe, basically you're a CP and ancillary docs gimp.
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But the US firms will give you a proper ass-reaming and no mistake. At least FF will treat you right.
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I.e. apply the TCP and aloe vera after the colossal ass-reaming.
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Yeah FF will offer you a choice of lube flavours before they ream you.
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Lolz
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That the meme espoused by Badders at 1429 still persists is a testament to MC marketing/propaganda. Badders you've been reamed harder than most lawyers I have ever met.
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I reckon on average 45 hours billable and a further 5 hours non-billable per week, plus say an hour faffing it’s basically 11-hour days
in peaks and troughs
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You will not work any harder /longer at a Sidley, Latham or KE than one does at FF or similar . There are afterall only 24 hours now a day .
These US firms do more premium paying work and often bill in 15/20 minute units , which obviously makes a huge difference.
close friend left CC to work at Debevoise and works considerably less hours
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Really, Wang? How so?
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I don't think I'd feel right from an ethical point of view spending two minutes dealing with a short e-mail and billing a client for 20 minutes. It feels bad enough rounding it up to six minutes.
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You have a worrying case of conscience there, Sailers.
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heh
Reminds me of the tale told too gleefully by one of my ex-colleagues. Tale of a bloke who used to come in at 7:30, call 6 active clients leaving a voicemail to check in on the deal and then leave by 7:45 to get breakfast knowing he’d already bagged 1.5 billables. Plus at least another 1.5 when he got called back.
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