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Biglaw Firm With Billable Hours Bonus Eligibility Requirement Refuses To Comment On Billable Hours Bonus Eligibility Requirement

Do you have to record 2300 billable hours to be eligible for full Cravath bonuses at this firm or not?

When reached for comment, representatives of Norton Rose, which absorbed New York-based Chadbourne & Parke earlier this year, referred to “inaccuracies” in the Above the Law report but did not name specific errors. The firm did not respond when asked whether associates must record 2,300 billable hours to be eligible for the market bonuses.

— An excerpt from an article written by Christine Simmons of the American Lawyer, focusing on the “billable hours catch” that’s shrinking bonus payouts at some law firms.


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