Situation Normal?
In a suit that may satisfy or send shudders to our readers (depending on what size practice you have and the hour requirements that are set for associates), a California lawyer–former associate Richard Unitan–has sued his ex-law firm because he could not meet an annual 3,000 hour quota. The basis of the suit is apparently employment bias, reports an American Bar Association on-line article posted on December 12, 2011 by Debra Cassens Weiss. Mr. Unitan has alleged that his ex-firm required him to bill every task in six minute increments, no matter how short. The law firm was “truly shocked” to hear of the claims and rebuts that they are “completely false.” According to Ms. Weiss, the quota requires working about eight hours a day, every day of the year. As a famous Latin phrase “tempus fugit” reminds us, how time will fly.
Bonus: “The phrase ‘when will pigs fly’ is an adynaton—a figure of speech so hyperbolic that it describes an impossibility.” Source: Wikipedia, “Flying Pig.”
