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Aug 2025
35m 12s

2400 Reasons To Brush Up That Resume

LEGAL TALK NETWORK
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We know where some of those pro bono payola hours are going. ----- 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 ... Show More
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