{"id":132146,"date":"2025-08-27T15:36:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/27\/2400-reasons-to-brush-up-that-resume\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T15:36:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:36:58","slug":"2400-reasons-to-brush-up-that-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/27\/2400-reasons-to-brush-up-that-resume\/","title":{"rendered":"2400 Reasons To Brush Up That Resume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Be prepared to be on the clock a lot longer at King &amp; Spalding, where the firm has introduced a <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/biglaw-firm-adds-onerous-billable-target-that-has-everyone-freaking-out\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2400 hour \u201cproductive\u201d time target<\/a>. In other words, attorneys will have to figure out how to describe 2400 hours worth of work to the firm\u2019s billing software every year. This seems to follow the overarching retreat from the work from home era, which also made news this week with a firm announcing a new office mandate\u2026 <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\">but just for some associates<\/a>. Justice Jackson drew upon a <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/supreme-court-just-calvinball-jurisprudence-with-a-twist-writes-justice-jackson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">generational touchstone<\/a> to succinctly describe the Supreme Court majority\u2019s jurisprudence. And a pair of the spineless firms are providing <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\">free legal services to the Commerce Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/2400-reasons-to-brush-up-that-resume\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2400 Reasons To Brush Up That Resume<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Be prepared to be on the clock a lot longer at King &amp; Spalding, where the firm has introduced a <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/biglaw-firm-adds-onerous-billable-target-that-has-everyone-freaking-out\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2400 hour \u201cproductive\u201d time target<\/a>. In other words, attorneys will have to figure out how to describe 2400 hours worth of work to the firm\u2019s billing software every year. This seems to follow the overarching retreat from the work from home era, which also made news this week with a firm announcing a new office mandate\u2026 <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\">but just for some associates<\/a>. Justice Jackson drew upon a <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/supreme-court-just-calvinball-jurisprudence-with-a-twist-writes-justice-jackson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">generational touchstone<\/a> to succinctly describe the Supreme Court majority\u2019s jurisprudence. And a pair of the spineless firms are providing <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\">free legal services to the Commerce Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/2400-reasons-to-brush-up-that-resume\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2400 Reasons To Brush Up That Resume<\/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>Be prepared to be on the clock a lot longer at King &amp; Spalding, where the firm has introduced a 2400 hour \u201cproductive\u201d time target. In other words, attorneys will have to figure out how to describe 2400 hours worth of work to the firm\u2019s billing software every year. 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