If your husband is a lawyer

amother

↑ Firethorn

Yesterday at 2:58 pm

amother Lightblue wrote:

Based off the numbers on this thread
If a lawyer works 60 hours per week for 50 weeks per year
And he makes $600,000
That equals a pay rate of $200 per hour
Which is very nice, but not too far off from well paid private therapists and the like.

The fallacy is that a therapist can’t work 60 hours per week. It would be impossible to meet clients for 60 hours.

Legal work is completely different. I am not negating the work that lawyers do but in no way does every minute of my time spent lawyering involve the sake kind of intensity as a good therapist provides. I say this as an attorney.

This is especially true for in house attorneys where a significant amount of time is spent in meetings. 😂 Your time isn’t so strictly accounted for and is based on completing your work.

Also one of the reasons attorneys in private practice work long hours is because they need to actually put in hours that aren’t billable. You can only ethically bill for actual time working for a client so anything at all that isn’t working in a billable matter is still time but not billable or meeting the minimum number generally required.

amother

↑ Steel

Yesterday at 3:49 pm

amother Lightblue wrote:

True but please don’t tell me a therapist is seeing 60 clients a week 😳