Is working too much normal in big law firms
[00:00:00] I work at a top 10 New York City firm in a transactional, we have a partner who goes in the office every day, including weekends, and will email associates, without any regard for weekends or any life outside of work. Is this normal or will it be a little better at another big law firm? Don't mind the hours of big law but it's getting so hard to keep working under this guy's schedule.
Yeah, that's normal. The only solution that I would say to you is if you don't want to work for him then I would allow other people to take those calls and then get very busy working for partners that you may like. And many times you can many times the partners that do that will be junior partners too, by the way.
But if you I don't think that you need to go to, another firm because of him. But I would recommend you don't have to respond. I'm not going to say that because I don't want to get in trouble, but if you get very busy working for other people, you don't have to respond to his emails or you can tell him that you're busy.
The big thing is you just need to make sure you're always getting your hours. And I would be very careful about making sure that you're not your work, your taking you have enough for cuts.
