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I don't like the hours and the stress. I'm expected to bill between 175-200 hours per month. I'd ideally like a job where I can bill around 1800 and make like 75% of my current salary (I have 200k in law school loans - i'd still like to be able to service the loan and save comfortably if possible)....

Feel free to ask me anything, be it my time at biglaw, my reasons for leaving, or my current work as a lit midlevel at my boutique firm mostly complex tech/pharma litigation (patent, trade secret, or complex commercial with high tech or pharma focus). to the extent you're comfortable sharing - how ...

Surprised that they’re already pushing you to hit that many hours and it sounds like your firm might just suck. I do mostly lit and while 200 hour + months are certainly not unheard of, they’re certainly not the baseline expectation either and an 1800 hour year wouldn’t be frowned on at all. I thin...

What is it exactly that you don’t like about your job? If you can clarify that, you will avoid going to a second job that has the same bad characteristics. Yeah, I think this would be helpful. Lifestyle is a bit broad, although you did mention a firm with chiller hours in your post. Is it specifica...

pancakes3 wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 25, 2020 6:56 pm

Do you have ties to a secondary market?

northern california

Just started NYC biglaw. Lifestyle is not for me. Doing litigation. Have a technical background and graduated in the lower third of my class at HYS. Can I jump to a boutique that has more chill hours? Does it look bad if I leave after only one year? What do exit options look like at this point in th...