Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer
Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer
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2400 Reasons To Brush Up That Resume
35 minutes Posted Aug 27, 2025 at 2:30 pm.
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We know where some of those pro bono payola hours are going.
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Be prepared to be on the clock a lot longer at King & Spalding, where the firm has introduced a 2400 hour “productive” time target. In other words, attorneys will have to figure out how to describe 2400 hours worth of work to the firm’s 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… but just for some associates. Justice Jackson drew upon a generational touchstone to succinctly describe the Supreme Court majority’s jurisprudence. And a pair of the spineless firms are providing free legal services to the Commerce Department.