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I'm working from home this morning, before the kids get up -- although I hear rumblings, and a television, so I know my minutes are numbered. Numbered, but billable. An associate came into my office late yesterday afternoon and told me she's leaving. I told her that was probably a good idea, because she was never going to make partner. As I said it, I realized that had she been kidding -- "Oh, I was just teasing. I'd never leave you." -- I'd have been in a real bad spot. But luckily she was serious. So off she goes. She and her 1500 billables last year, her grating personality, and her obsession with pro bono work. I don't know why people come to large firms, and then expect to be given the freedom to work on cases we don't get paid for. If you want to make the law firm salary, and live the law firm life, you should have to do law firm work. I don't know why people bristle when I say that. There are lots of great organizations out there that do pro bono work, and if that's what someone wants to do, they should work there. Otherwise, if they do pro bono work from here, they're taking jobs from people who really want to do pro bono work full-time, and they're costing the firm money. A little bit here and there is fine -- when you're young, to get it out of your system; or when you're old, to help justify your seven-figure salary. But in between, I just don't understand. Office workers don't use company time and company resources to help poor people. They do it on their own time. This whole culture of pro bono work at large firms -- this fetishization, almost -- is bizarre to me. If that's the kind of work you want to do, you're free to go do it -- but leave my paper clips here. Because every paper clip you take and give to the battered women's legal defense association, or whatever they're called, is another three seconds your colleagues have to work to keep the firm's profitability at the same level. It sounds heartless, but we're a business. We give lots of money to charity. We don't need to give time too.

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I know plenty of law students who go to firms for a summer or just for a few years to reap the firm salary and pay off loans or make a few bucks, while all the while only wanting to work in public interest. It makes me furious. They take interviews and positions from those of us who came to law school with a real interest in the complex, challenging work that law firms offer. Pro bono work is obviously a good thing, but I agree that this fetishization is bad news. To me, it screams "My real passion is public interest, but I deserve the large-firm salary just because it's there and they're willing to pay me." Ugh.
 
Sounds heartless? It more than sounds heartless. I hope that check you write each year to soothe your frigid conscious helps you sleep at night. But then I wonder how you sleep at all, what with all those paperclips to inventory. Lawyers like you keep the comedians in business.

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"Office workers don't use company time and company resources to help poor people. They do it on their own time."

Didn't you post two days ago that an associate came back to work at 2AM to finish things up? Haven't many of your posts been to the effect that the big law firm lifestyle essentially consumes all your free time and any possibility of having a life outside the firm? If so then their own time is essentially firm time b/c they have no time of their own.

I understand your frustrations w/ ppl who make six figures but don't want to do the work that comes w/ the territory but I think you're being a bit harsh. If you have an attorney who doesn't really love the work but stays there for the money, which seems to be many big firm attorneys, isn't letting them do some pro bono work a nice outlet for their frustrations? I think it would help retention.

And you're also ignoring the positive benefits your firm reaps: positive publicity, enhanced responsibility for younger associates who might never get into a courtroom otherwise, and networking opportunities. If you do work for a battered women's shelter repeatedly you're going to be known to the board members, who are likely successful people who might think of your firm the next time their company needs legal help. I admit that the third is a bit of a stretch but I don't think its impossible.

Of course its critical to strike a balance so that they still remain productive. And 1500 billable hours seems ridiculously low for a large coastal firm. Big firms in my midwestern city usually do 1800.
 
In the jurisdictions where I practice, lawyers are strongly encouraged and expected to do a certain amount of pro bono each year. Maryland requires that you report each year on what, if anything, you've done by way of pro bono. So there is a message there to lawyers coming from the profession as a whole.
 
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