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entris posted:wtf you have a plant!? and dual monitors? A nice lady named Mindy comes in every Friday and water/prunes it. Top of the page again. This has to be some kind of record.
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Holland Oats posted:I need to make a decision on where to go for my 2L summer. I have two offers. One is a small office, about 40-60 lawyers. It's the New York branch office for a DC based firm. I think I'd like to live in DC and work for the government eventually but that can change over time. I really liked the people I've met from this firm and think that I'd be pretty happy there. The work-life balance there also appears to be really good, like almost everyone's gone by 8 and not working on the weekends good. It also has a 1:1 leverage ratio and unlike most other law firms, there isn't an expectation that most of their associates eventually leave. The downside is that it pays less than market and is less prestigious. e: And I have three monitors, no big deal.
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Sep 27, 2011 14:39
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Hilarious how relative things are. "almost everyone's gone by 8" is a good work/life balance, and 40-60 lawyers is a small firm. [photograph removed] Enough about my office. Phil Moscowitz fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Sep 27, 2011 |
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Sep 27, 2011 14:55
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I hate ya'll but hey here's mine:
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Sep 27, 2011 15:00
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Check out this bad rear end view!
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Sep 27, 2011 15:03
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Stunt Rock posted:I hate ya'll but hey here's mine: Pan the camera so we can see your bed and anime posters
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Sep 27, 2011 15:03
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How the hell do some of you work with only one monitor? It's pretty much impossible for me to get anything done with 1.
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Sep 27, 2011 15:54
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commish posted:How the hell do some of you work with only one monitor? It's pretty much impossible for me to get anything done with 1. For me personally it's a lack of competent IT in a small firm. I have two monitors BUT my onboard graphics card only has one output. The card has been "being ordered" for two months.
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Sep 27, 2011 15:59
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Roger_Mudd posted:For me personally it's a lack of competent IT in a small firm. I have two monitors BUT my onboard graphics card only has one output. The card has been "being ordered" for two months.
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Sep 27, 2011 16:06
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I'm not takinga picture, but my office has a "view" of our courthouse, built in the early 70s (stunning concrete work, I swear). It has a single computer, a pretty sweet aeron chair, and is buried in files. My desk is clearly govt issue. At least my phone is from the last decade. I also have a GWS approved coffee rig complete with a burr grinder and a scale to measure out coffee and water because scoops are too inaccurate. nm fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Sep 27, 2011 |
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Sep 27, 2011 16:15
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nm posted:I'm not takinga picture, but my office has a "view" of our courthouse, built in the early 70s (stunning concrete work, I swear). It has a single computer, a pretty sweet aeron chair, and is buried in files. My desk is clearly govt issue. At least my phone is from the last decade. I look out over Runways 24R and 24L at LAX. Sometimes I pull up WebTrak for LAX and watch all my little metal friends come and go. ...my only friends...
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Sep 27, 2011 16:32
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Holland Oats posted:It also doesn't seem to be missing any particular areas of law I'm interested in. Even though it's small, you wind up working with people in other offices a lot so that actual workforce dealing with a particular case or deal is much bigger than you'd expect given the size of the NY office. Do people find this to be the case at their firms? I was told in interviews that you work with other offices but I worked in a branch office with around 100 people at my first firm and I'd say largely that the Atlanta partners primarily worked with the Atlanta associates and the NY partners primarily worked with the NY associates with a few exceptions of some partners originally based in Atlanta who still kinda liked their go to Atlanta associates. I really didn't find that regular, daily work was fielded to me by the main office - especially when things started to get tight and the Atlanta people were right there in person harassing the partners for work. I also felt like there was pressure from the NY office to ship things to the Atlanta office and their associates and away from us and that come lay off time, being in a branch office was worse than being at the main office, where they seemed much more concerned with keeping layoffs to a minimum.. The stuff that did seem to be interoffice were more large-scale like rush doc review jobs. Even in my newest firm, we had a very small practice group, of like 8 total in philly and like 3 people in the NY office and NY mostly just did their own thing. Edit: You all wanna see my pretty cubicle? HooKars fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Sep 27, 2011 |
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Sep 27, 2011 17:43
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Being fresh off the callback circuit, it's pretty amusing to see that these office photos are pretty much as interchangeable as most of the actual offices I was in.
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Sep 27, 2011 18:24
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HooKars posted:Do people find this to be the case at their firms? I was told in interviews that you work with other offices but I worked in a branch office with around 100 people at my first firm and I'd say largely that the Atlanta partners primarily worked with the Atlanta associates and the NY partners primarily worked with the NY associates with a few exceptions of some partners originally based in Atlanta who still kinda liked their go to Atlanta associates. I really didn't find that regular, daily work was fielded to me by the main office - especially when things started to get tight and the Atlanta people were right there in person harassing the partners for work. I also felt like there was pressure from the NY office to ship things to the Atlanta office and their associates and away from us and that come lay off time, being in a branch office was worse than being at the main office, where they seemed much more concerned with keeping layoffs to a minimum.. The stuff that did seem to be interoffice were more large-scale like rush doc review jobs. Even in my newest firm, we had a very small practice group, of like 8 total in philly and like 3 people in the NY office and NY mostly just did their own thing. I have a cube in a room with ten cubes. Most instructors have an office with 1-3 people, very few with windows. In the three firms I worked in, I had windows in one, a windowless basement office in another, and windowless interior room in the third. At least now my cube is in the corner by the only window in the room.
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Sep 27, 2011 18:40
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HooKars posted:Do people find this to be the case at their firms? I was told in interviews that you work with other offices but I worked in a branch office with around 100 people at my first firm and I'd say largely that the Atlanta partners primarily worked with the Atlanta associates and the NY partners primarily worked with the NY associates with a few exceptions of some partners originally based in Atlanta who still kinda liked their go to Atlanta associates. I really didn't find that regular, daily work was fielded to me by the main office - especially when things started to get tight and the Atlanta people were right there in person harassing the partners for work. I also felt like there was pressure from the NY office to ship things to the Atlanta office and their associates and away from us and that come lay off time, being in a branch office was worse than being at the main office, where they seemed much more concerned with keeping layoffs to a minimum.. The stuff that did seem to be interoffice were more large-scale like rush doc review jobs. Even in my newest firm, we had a very small practice group, of like 8 total in philly and like 3 people in the NY office and NY mostly just did their own thing.
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Sep 27, 2011 18:47
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Hoover v. Jolley, 45 Va. Cir. 309 An unmarried woman, with no children, parents, or grandparents, leaves $150,000 in a "flower trust" for the purpose of placing flowers on friends' graves forever.  The Virginia Supreme Court, being jerks, decide that this trust violates RAP, but then they redeem themselves by giving the trust a term of 21 years, and then requiring any leftover funds be donated to the cemetary. I think it's adorable that from 1998 until 2018, there will be fresh flowers on her friends' graves every weekend and on certain holidays.
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Sep 27, 2011 19:25
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AKMoose posted:Being fresh off the callback circuit, it's pretty amusing to see that these office photos are pretty much as interchangeable as most of the actual offices I was in. Just you wait until I get my Trek decorations up.
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Sep 27, 2011 20:32
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entris posted:Hoover v. Jolley, 45 Va. Cir. 309 Meanwhile, as I struggle to pay off 150k in student loans... \/\/\/\/ I say we go raid us some flower trusts. Roger_Mudd fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Sep 27, 2011 |
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Sep 27, 2011 20:57
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Roger_Mudd posted:Meanwhile, as I struggle to pay off 150k in student loans... High five. Most of mine are to SMU too.
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Sep 27, 2011 20:58
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Copernic posted:I look out over Runways 24R and 24L at LAX. Sometimes I pull up WebTrak for LAX and watch all my little metal friends come and go. Is there one for Boston/Logan? I can't find it...
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Sep 27, 2011 21:38
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Here's my office~ Just kidding. That's just one of several alleys I scavenge on my way to the coffeeshop where I beg for coffee remains and leech free wifi so I can collect my rejection e-mails from all of those GS-5 positions I applied for on usajobs.
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Sep 27, 2011 21:56
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tau posted:Here's my office~ sorry for acknowledging your lover, bro.
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Sep 27, 2011 22:23
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almost-lawyer office:  not (fully) pictured: 4 minecraft servers running for free on the network, apple tree outside window that is a graft of newton's apple tree, dignity and respect and love of my job
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Sep 27, 2011 22:34
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After being support staff for so long, I'm still not comfortable handing things off to them. A paralegal is going to mail something for me and I feel lazy.
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Sep 27, 2011 23:19
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I'm trying to join #lawgoons on IRC, however the webbrowser is poo poo and I seem to not be able to connect to Synirc from Europe with mirc (unable to resolve 6667 blablabla). Well too bad  View from my old office in Paris: http://i.imgur.com/rEkzb.jpg New office is just plain boring old ugly building. Macnigore fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Sep 27, 2011 |
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Sep 27, 2011 23:33
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Macnigore posted:I'm trying to join #lawgoons on IRC, however the webbrowser is just poo poo and I seem to not be able to connect to Synirc from Europe with mirc (unable to resolve 6667 blablabla). there's a snappily dressed ghost just outside your window!!!!! he must be haunting your office from lawgoons past. copy and paste this three times or the ghost will get you too!! ~*~boooooo~*~
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Sep 27, 2011 23:42
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It's the ghost of the previous lawyer I had to kill in order to get a job.
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Sulecrist posted:sorry for acknowledging your lover, bro. Last time I share details of my life with you, bro.
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Sep 28, 2011 00:04
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Petey posted:almost-lawyer office:
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Sep 28, 2011 00:44
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tau posted:Last time I share details of my life with you, bro. I said I wouldn't share the pictures and I very forcefully didn't, bro. edit: tpb in 23...
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Sep 28, 2011 00:51
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This is from wikipedia but it's so close to being a direct view from where I live it must've been taken from two houses down: not pictured: my furniture, which is a £50 desk with no drawers until my wife arrives in a few months because gently caress buying anything she'll make me throw out anyhow
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Sep 28, 2011 01:48
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Roger_Mudd posted:After being support staff for so long, I'm still not comfortable handing things off to them. A paralegal is going to mail something for me and I feel lazy. They're going to gently caress it up.
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Sep 28, 2011 03:03
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You folks play loose and fast with gender.
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Sep 28, 2011 04:42
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Solid Lizzie posted:You folks play loose and fast with gender. Don't worry, I'm on a little committee at Northwestern that's going to add something to the Non-Discrimination Policy so that employers can't discriminate based on that anymore.  Except for JAG obvs.
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Sep 28, 2011 05:30
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entris posted:wtf you have a plant!? and dual monitors? I thought dual monitors was standard? I had them over the summer. It was neat (actually really, really useful too).
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Speaking of doing things loose and fast with gender and also doing things over the summer, anyone want to work this coming summer in Alaska for uh no pay, I can maybe hire you. Maybe. As a DA intern. PM me or some poo poo.
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Sep 28, 2011 08:27
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I wish I could take pictures of my office Not really it's pretty boring.
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Sep 28, 2011 09:04
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This is from the front lobby of the first office I was in.
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Sep 28, 2011 15:22
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HiddenReplaced posted:As my IRC bros can confirm, I do well with the ladies. You are just jelly. I'm too old to learn a new technology. "Chat clients" frighten me the way that TV remotes frighten you grandmother. Besides, I have been warned by Dateline not to chat on the internet.
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Solomon Grundy posted:I'm too old to learn a new technology. "Chat clients" frighten me the way that TV remotes frighten you grandmother. Besides, I have been warned by Dateline not to chat on the internet. Grundy just go to mibbit.com in your browser and log in from there without having to pre-register or anything. If you can post on this forum, you can access the IRC channel.
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