However, the firmâs submission for the associationâs current NALP Directory of Legal Employers reports that it has a âminimum billable hour expectation.â In 2011, DLA Piperâs âaverage annual associate hours workedâ (both billable and nonbillable) was 2,462; the billable average was 1,831.
Someone who makes decisions based only on an objective perception of reality rather than emotions or personal benefit. A nihilist is not a self-aggrandizing narcissist who beleives that they are above the law. A Nihilist is someone who does not take pleasure from indulgence, therefore serial killers and insane dictators are not nihilists.
Although it has much in common with Nihilism, Existentialism is more a reaction against traditional philosophies, such as Rationalism, Empiricism and Positivism, that seek to discover an ultimate order and universal meaning in metaphysical principles or in the structure of the observed world.