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Solution: Let's get more interns in the team and force them to do the heavy duty work and bill the client as budgeted. This is how firms have been saving up on intern work not by saving an entry level salary. Those associates who ask us to send a screenshot of our time sheet entries just to reproduce the same in their time entries, you're fooling nobody.
(I have spent over half a decade at a T1 and have mentored several interns)
There is one tech policy boutique firm with many big tech clients which makes interns work late at night and over the weekends. Sometimes the work is client-facing. I was once working with multiple deadlines and couldn't provide comprehensive research on a deliverable. The associate told me that it affected the advice that was sent to the client.
So yes, there are small firms that are severely understaffed where the work that interns do is depended upon by overburdened associates.
What BS. Exceeding committed hours is the dream we aspire to work towards.
and had somehow exceeded the hours they had committed to the clients.
How would an intern know the total hours committed? Beta, go study.