Originally Posted by Unregistered

Second this. I'm currently a trainee at an international law firm. The only time I'm going home at 7/8 is when (1) I'm going to work from home till 2am, or (2) it's a very bad lull period. My usual day is at least 9 hours (billable/no billable) hours. Peak periods can be easily 14-15 hours for weeks.

As an associate our cutoff is 1600 hours billable. With the nonbillables it can easily hit 2100.