Mary Jaclyn Cook
Yet billable hour requirements exist virtually across the board in Big Law. With the average third-year associate at an Am Law 200 firm last year billing 2,005 hours per year, according to
the 2017 American Lawyer Midlevel Associate Survey, Cook may find scant sympathy among her harried peers.
And while hourly requirements on their own may be a fact of life for Big Law associates, survey responses to The American Lawyer show that young lawyers from many firms feel uncertain about what the billing expectations actually mean.
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