{"id":131922,"date":"2025-08-24T17:59:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T01:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/24\/no-matter-how-biglaw-firm-spins-it-2400-is-a-lot-of-hours-see-generally\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T17:59:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T01:59:34","slug":"no-matter-how-biglaw-firm-spins-it-2400-is-a-lot-of-hours-see-generally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/24\/no-matter-how-biglaw-firm-spins-it-2400-is-a-lot-of-hours-see-generally\/","title":{"rendered":"No Matter How Biglaw Firm Spins It, 2400 Is A Lot Of Hours \u2014 See Generally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>King &amp; Spalding Wants Associates To Account for 2,400 Hours: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/biglaw-firm-adds-onerous-billable-target-that-has-everyone-freaking-out\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">You only need 1,950 <em>billable<\/em> hours so, um that\u2019s a lot of busy work.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>All Biglaw Practice Groups Are Not Created Equal: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/top-biglaw-firm-increases-its-office-attendance-mandate-to-four-days-but-only-for-corporate-associates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Especially not if you want to work from home. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Biglaw\u2019s Cracking The Whip:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/biglaw-firms-continue-to-depend-on-attendance-mandates-and-lawyers-who-dont-abide-are-getting-punished\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">When it comes to getting your butt back to the office. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Don\u2019t You Tell Us How You Really Feel<\/strong>? <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/former-maga-attorney-goes-scorched-earth-with-corruption-allegations-in-antitrust-division\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Former MAGA antitrust attorney goes all out with allegations of corruption in the division.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Does Ketanji Brown Jackson Read <em>Calvin and Hobbes<\/em>?<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/supreme-court-just-calvinball-jurisprudence-with-a-twist-writes-justice-jackson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Her latest burn on the Court might tip off her Sunday morning reading habits.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Look At What\u2019s Happening With The California Bar Exam:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/the-california-bar-is-at-a-crossroads\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">They\u2019ve made a mess of it, so they\u2019re in clean-up mode.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Skadden And Kirkland Already Started Paying Their Pro Bono Payola: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/paul-weiss-kirkland-doing-free-trump-commerce-department-work-as-part-of-please-dont-hurt-us-daddy-deals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Let the dirty work begin!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/no-matter-how-biglaw-firm-spins-it-2400-is-a-lot-of-hours-see-generally\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No Matter How Biglaw Firm Spins It, 2400 Is A Lot Of Hours \u2014 See Generally<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>King &amp; Spalding Wants Associates To Account for 2,400 Hours: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/biglaw-firm-adds-onerous-billable-target-that-has-everyone-freaking-out\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">You only need 1,950 <em>billable<\/em> hours so, um that\u2019s a lot of busy work.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>All Biglaw Practice Groups Are Not Created Equal: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/top-biglaw-firm-increases-its-office-attendance-mandate-to-four-days-but-only-for-corporate-associates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Especially not if you want to work from home. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Biglaw\u2019s Cracking The Whip:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/biglaw-firms-continue-to-depend-on-attendance-mandates-and-lawyers-who-dont-abide-are-getting-punished\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">When it comes to getting your butt back to the office. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Don\u2019t You Tell Us How You Really Feel<\/strong>? <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/former-maga-attorney-goes-scorched-earth-with-corruption-allegations-in-antitrust-division\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Former MAGA antitrust attorney goes all out with allegations of corruption in the division.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Does Ketanji Brown Jackson Read <em>Calvin and Hobbes<\/em>?<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/supreme-court-just-calvinball-jurisprudence-with-a-twist-writes-justice-jackson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Her latest burn on the Court might tip off her Sunday morning reading habits.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Look At What\u2019s Happening With The California Bar Exam:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/the-california-bar-is-at-a-crossroads\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">They\u2019ve made a mess of it, so they\u2019re in clean-up mode.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Skadden And Kirkland Already Started Paying Their Pro Bono Payola: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/paul-weiss-kirkland-doing-free-trump-commerce-department-work-as-part-of-please-dont-hurt-us-daddy-deals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Let the dirty work begin!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/no-matter-how-biglaw-firm-spins-it-2400-is-a-lot-of-hours-see-generally\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No Matter How Biglaw Firm Spins It, 2400 Is A Lot Of Hours \u2014 See Generally<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King &amp; Spalding Wants Associates To Account for 2,400 Hours: You only need 1,950 billable hours so, um that\u2019s a lot of busy work. All Biglaw Practice Groups Are Not Created Equal: Especially not if you want to work from home. Biglaw\u2019s Cracking The Whip: When it comes to getting your butt back to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}