u/Leo8670

Senior attorney being asked to move from production into building and running a pod of associates, some experienced laterals, some brand new with no cases. I’d ramp my own billing down as the management load grows.
How is this actually paid at your firm?
Is the managing cut a percentage of associate collections, or of a margin (collections minus salary, or collections above a multiple like 3x)? Does it start from the first dollar, or only after they cross a threshold? If there’s a threshold, how do you get paid during the year you’re building someone from zero, before they produce?
Is there a flat management stipend on top, or is it all production-based?
Trying to figure out whether there’s a market standard for compensating the build itself, versus just paying the managing cut once associates are already producing. Any real structures or numbers appreciated.

About five minutes ago, I was sitting in my office and I heard a knocking at the front door almost in a pattern. I thought it was strange because my ring doorbell didn’t notify me or someone there. I go to the front door and I hear the knocking again and I look through the side glass windows and I don’t see anything. I open the door to look if there’s a mark or something, I thought, maybe it would be a bird a woodpecker, but the ring doorbell has usually been very good with picking up any sort of movement whatsoever I went back to look at my ring and there was no movement no notification no nothing. I’m kind of freaked out because what the hell was the knocking.

My wife has the following flights on Aug 14 from KRK- HEL, HEL-DFW then another connecting flight in the states. All other flights are on time but the flight to Dallas has been cancelled. Obviously a pretty big flight to have been cancelled which now means all other flight will have to be changed as well since there is only one flight a day to Dallas from HEL. Any idea as to the reasoning of such a cancel?

I’m heading to Italy with my wife and daughter, first week of June and one of our stops will be Venice. We’d like to do a gondola ride, but we’re not really interested in the Grand Canal. We will do that on a motorboat tour. We’d prefer something through the smaller, quieter, more interesting canals. For those who have done this before, is there a specific tour/company you’d recommend, or is it better to just walk up to a gondolier and ask for that type of route? Any suggestions would be appreciated.