Not that much, just enough to make it annoying. You also have some people who seem very meek and innocuous, but they are the most aggressive lawyers I ve ever seen. The firm allows lawyers to date, and there are a couple of partners who are married. The firm policy is, if you start dating, just tell the department head. Variable hours Incredibly long hours are not an inevitability at Fried Frank.
Associates can choose to dodge work, acknowledges one insider.
A corporate associate remarks that hours tend to be very mixed. I ve experienced everything from zero to 120 hours of work in a week. One associate claims to bill extremely conservatively, around 180 hours a month. Others point out that, in some departments, hours aren t wall to wall. At the same time, Fried Frank reportedly has no face time.