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Just overheard a senior partner telling one of the office managers to go buy several huge tubs of ice cream because he felt like having an ice cream party this afternoon. He also told her to call our other offices and tell them they should all go buy ice cream too.
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Sep 22, 2011 16:07
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Your firm was only interviewing 3Ls at my school; I was bummed I want to have an ice cream party.
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Sep 22, 2011 16:20
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Feces Starship posted:i'm sure you were never a good dancer It is true. Being a lawyer is sheltering me from the real rejection of the cruel cruel performance world.
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Sep 22, 2011 17:50
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I'm going to be in New Orleans for a few days for a conference. Bayou lawgoons: PM me some places to get burgers and steaks, TIA
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Sep 22, 2011 21:05
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HiddenReplaced posted:Just overheard a senior partner telling one of the office managers to go buy several huge tubs of ice cream because he felt like having an ice cream party this afternoon. He also told her to call our other offices and tell them they should all go buy ice cream too. Sounds like some associates are getting fired today!
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Sep 23, 2011 00:32
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HiddenReplaced posted:Just overheard a senior partner telling one of the office managers to go buy several huge tubs of ice cream because he felt like having an ice cream party this afternoon. He also told her to call our other offices and tell them they should all go buy ice cream too. Tofutti break!
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Sep 23, 2011 02:30
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Feces Starship posted:Hey could you email me at my school address? I got an offer at my firm and I need advice on some things about life as an attorney in the city we are both in I have done this thing you asked
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Sep 23, 2011 02:51
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Getting threats from a disgruntled client 
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Sep 23, 2011 03:08
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Dantu posted:Getting threats from a disgruntled client
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Sep 23, 2011 04:28
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MaximumBob posted:Sounds like some associates are getting fired today! Not yesterday, but possibly today. A client gave the firm several tickets to the PGA tournament (executive club tickets, so free bar/food), and another associate that started with me took two of them. Senior partner just asked the office manager who took the tickets, and when she told him he goes, "So the new guy takes not one, but two tickets, and the day off to go to the tournament?" The office manager nervously laughed and the partner walks off. It's kind of entertaining being directly across from the office manager's office. Omerta posted:Your firm was only interviewing 3Ls at my school; I was bummed I want to have an ice cream party. With the way the market is looking today, you might be looking for a job next year anyway, so you may still have a shot at ice cream! HiddenReplaced fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Sep 23, 2011 |
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Sep 23, 2011 14:28
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I got free tacos and cupcakes yesterday at work. On tuesday, a client of mine made me tamales.
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Sep 23, 2011 16:42
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HiddenReplaced posted:Not yesterday, but possibly today. I sent you an email update about how the fun hunting for a job in Atlanta was. Imagine staring into the eye of the goatse man -- forever. Omerta fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Sep 23, 2011 |
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Sep 23, 2011 19:01
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Only for the school year for now, but just landed some agency work doing Food Safety Modernization Act compliance stuff for more than a pittance, so I guess that's something.
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Sep 23, 2011 23:03
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Lawyer pet question - how many of you have dogs and how do you take care of them while billing 2,400 hours? Same question applies to children I guess.
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Sep 24, 2011 00:09
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crate them at night, put them outside during the day when you're at the office and train them good enough so that they don't poo poo in the house as for the pets, i don't know
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Sep 24, 2011 01:05
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Direwolf posted:Lawyer pet question - how many of you have dogs and how do you take care of them while billing 2,400 hours? Same question applies to children I guess. Wife.
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Sep 24, 2011 01:14
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Direwolf posted:Lawyer pet question - how many of you have dogs and how do you take care of them while billing 2,400 hours? Same question applies to children I guess.
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Sep 24, 2011 04:48
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The Wise Teen posted:Only for the school year for now, but just landed some agency work doing Food Safety Modernization Act compliance stuff for more than a pittance, so I guess that's something. Grats fancy flup
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Sep 24, 2011 14:34
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HiddenReplaced posted:Grats fancy flup fanci grub
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Sep 24, 2011 14:50
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hired. heads up mitten, im coming home
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Sep 24, 2011 17:03
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btw If I have actually tapped into the vein of Thinking Like a Goddamned Lawyer via copious amounts of alcohol on this fine evening of worthlessness it's not the work that makes you drink yourself into a fat stupor of self-loathing; those notions of self insufficiency and wonderings of why continue exist long before we clothe ourselves in the cloak of proclaimed knowledge of legal maneuvering. we just keep throwing layers upon layers of complexity to hide the inner ugliness through distraction with the hope that at the end of the day I don t have to peer into the emptiness that is my personhood. but even that doesn't help. so it's to the bottle I go, knowing that I continue out of spite at this time because those other shitheads who are competing against me would probably take more glee than sorrow out of me pulling out of the race. And, seriously, if I'm just a pissant not worth much, they certainly are far less. It's of little comfort to say that I enjoy what I do - even if it's a fair 80 percent of my life at this point, and I have no expectations of that ration of "work/life balance" to ever get better - because how can you enjoy the movie even if the plot is grand if the actors are mannequins? I hope that I will crush them like bugs in the following years. I must win at everything so they can reflect upon their own failures and realize how poo poo and pointless this all is. I want to share this pathetic internal horrorshow with everyone; but I can't do it with any sort of frankness as here, because otherwise they will just point and stare. So if they have some standard by which they will see that their own achievements are dust in some shitstorm wind, then I don't have to expose my own vulnerabilities to pull back the mask and we can all drown our loathing and self pity in buckets of filth and sewage. I like mine with hops. I've looked at this for about ten minutes in preview and decide I'm going to post it. I don't care. It's really bad, pretty e/n sort of poo poo. But gently caress you, this is for those assholes who think that they'll go to law school Let Me Check the Law Thread and Glimpse Into the Future because I don't give a poo poo if this is just a low day for me gently caress this and gently caress them and gently caress everyone and I don't care if you think The Law is a great path for you it won't help you with your own goddamn troubles and if you're doing good at all then you're probably a broken person on the inside and you can't cover that up forever so gently caress you for thinking you could escape from that reality by spending 100k+. No gently caress that it's not for them because gently caress them, it's for me because talking to the goddamn wall only does so much so putting this poo poo into writing and posting it makes it at least more real than my problems. I am pretty stoked for this summer, though.
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Green Crayons posted:btw If I have actually tapped into the vein of Thinking Like a Goddamned Lawyer via copious amounts of alcohol on this fine evening of worthlessness it's not the work that makes you drink yourself into a fat stupor of self-loathing; those notions of self insufficiency and wonderings of why continue exist long before we clothe ourselves in the cloak of proclaimed knowledge of legal maneuvering. we just keep throwing layers upon layers of complexity to hide the inner ugliness through distraction with the hope that at the end of the day I don t have to peer into the emptiness that is my personhood.
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Sep 25, 2011 05:18
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King of Drunkposts
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Sep 25, 2011 05:51
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Came to post this bit from 1787, but maybe it would be better modified for prospective lawyers, instead.
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Sep 25, 2011 06:15
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"fagacious"
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Sep 25, 2011 06:33
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L&LSMW #13: Fagacious mifcarries in his fuit
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Sep 25, 2011 07:21
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Ainsley McTree posted:"fagacious" Taking this back.
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joat mon posted:Came to post this bit from 1787, Why is it "fays?" clearly they could print a lowercase s. That fhit fucks you fag
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Why is it "fays?" clearly they could print a lowercase s. That fhit fucks you fag WHO ARE YOU CALLING A SAG?!  The Greeks had two versions of lowercase sigma - one that was used at the beginning and middle of words, and another that was used at the end. The medial s (f) in Europe was sort of like the Renaissance and Enlightenment writer's version of 'Esq.' - a meaningless flourish that made one's writing (or for lawyers, title) look pretty and made one stand out as an aficionado of a more noble and cultured time. (Ancient Greece for writers, England for lawyers) As literacy increased, people realized it was a dumb affectation that made reading more difficult, and within 20 years it was gone. I don't know why we still have Esq.
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joat mon posted:I don't know why we still have Esq. We're not cool enough for "Dr."
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Sep 26, 2011 02:49
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You scrubs better not be putting Esq. after your own name though. I think I actually saw one of the faculty/administration at my school do it, might have been a dean.
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Sep 26, 2011 03:07
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HiddenReplaced posted:I either run in the morning before work or go to the gym after work. Going pretty well so far. I think the key to my success is that I live 90 seconds from my office, the grocery store, the gym, and the mall. Also, hello. The rules didn't say much in the way of how to make introductions, but I figured I'd take my chances. I'm Liz, and I'm a 2L.
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MoFauxHawk posted:You scrubs better not be putting Esq. after your own name though. I think I actually saw one of the faculty/administration at my school do it, might have been a dean. Seen lots of folks doing it here in Dallas. As if we needed more ammo for folks convinced we are idiots. Roger_Mudd, Esq.
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Roger_Mudd posted:Seen lots of folks doing it here in Dallas. As if we needed more ammo for folks convinced we are idiots. Since I'm just a law student I sign all of my listserv emails "Mo Faux Hawk, Esq.-in-Training, J.D. Candidate Northwestern University Law School of Law 2014 A.C.E." Seriously though our school is really inconsistent with what it calls itself. I see both "Northwestern University Law School" and "Northwestern University School of Law" on official things.
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Solid Lizzie posted:If there is one overarching post-law school concern I have, it's "Will I be able to get my run in?" Hi, Liz. I'm tau. Welcome to the Lawyer & Law School Megathread #12. What fine institution are you suffering through?
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Sep 26, 2011 04:57
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can we please have a new thread soon and put it in A/T?
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tau posted:Hi, Liz. I'm tau. Welcome to the Lawyer & Law School Megathread #12. What fine institution are you suffering through?
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Sulecrist posted:can we please have a new thread soon and put it in A/T?
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Linguica posted:This thread was moved to BFC by the mods so I assume they want to hide it away where we cannot warn future marks of the fate that awaits them Well heck I'll award you ten cool points if you can use your highly trained arguing skills to convince them to keep it in A/T. You're a lawyer, you go through three years of training to argue important things right?
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So I had a kid! Turns out, newborns are exhausting. Like, so exhausting that working long days at the office seems like a golden oasis of calm. Seriously though, if you want to really enjoy being at the office, have a baby. After a week of 24/7 changing diapers, consoling a crying baby, and taking care of your breastfeeding wife, the office really starts to call to you.
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