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Live footage of the immune system of big law partners:
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:My friend who is in Big Law is currently running a 100 degree fever and almost fainted while getting to work but can't take a few days off because the senior partner in charge of the deal is already out after half his face got paralyzed due to stress. the gently caress kind of 100 degree fever causes someone to nearly faint, that's barely a fever. plenty of people tend to run about that hot normally.
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Sep 30, 2019 19:52
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evilweasel posted:the gently caress kind of 100 degree fever causes someone to nearly faint, that's barely a fever. plenty of people tend to run about that hot normally. I think op meant they both happened bc of an illness that likely has additional symptoms that are making their life miserable
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Sep 30, 2019 19:58
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Look at the big man with his big fevers.Hoshi posted:I think op meant they both happened bc of an illness that likely has additional symptoms that are making their life miserable yeah, he's been feverish for days now + he has chronic migraines that flare up under stress so basically he's the ideal big law candidate
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Sep 30, 2019 19:59
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fuckin love that the idea of someone -- even a random third party who doesn't even post in this thread -- taking a sick day is so anathema to a biglaw partner that he automatically begins disqualifying it lest he be forced to face his fundamental inhumanity
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Sep 30, 2019 20:43
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When you're on the right side of morality you ain't got time to bleed
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Sep 30, 2019 20:45
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Popero posted:When you're on the right side of morality you ain't got time to bleed lol I had forgotten about that post already
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Sep 30, 2019 20:51
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one hundred degrees isn’t even a fever. The threshold is 100.4.
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Sep 30, 2019 21:02
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if your fever wouldn't concern me in my toddler i ain't going to be concerned about it in an associate
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Sep 30, 2019 21:03
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El_Elegante posted:one hundred degrees isn’t even a fever. The threshold is 100.4. notch another one for the "evilweasel was on the right side" category 
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Sep 30, 2019 21:04
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realpost: if i have to travel for work should i deliberately change my flight so i'm not on a plane with any other people from my firm so i can play my switch on the plane without shame
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Sep 30, 2019 21:05
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Here's an ethical quandary that just dropped into my lap. Our firm represents a client in a PI case. Case has merit, and opposing party is liable. After a lot of back and forth bullshit with the opposing party re: medpay and such, we got a local doctor and hospital to agree to do a needed surgery with a lien on recovery. Client today called and said that after he has the needed surgery, he's going to skip town and abandon litigation. My state ethics hotline is closed for Rosh Hashanah, so I can't get advice from them. My initial thought is that this is grounds for withdrawal and we should definitely not have him get the surgery next week.
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Sep 30, 2019 21:06
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:My friend who is in Big Law is currently running a 100 degree fever and almost fainted while getting to work but can't take a few days off because the senior partner in charge of the deal is already out after half his face got paralyzed due to stress. Sounds like your friend needs to toughen up. He'll never sniff market comp (not 150k btw), much less partner if he gets taken out by a "100 degree fever." Hell, back in my day,
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Sep 30, 2019 21:11
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evilweasel posted:if your fever wouldn't concern me in my toddler i ain't going to be concerned about it in an associate Good heavens, Pennysworth, why do we bother to fund sickhouses for the poor if they continue to miss their shifts?!
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Sep 30, 2019 21:16
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Also kids get crazy fevers, like your pediatrician won't bat an eye at 105, so your thinking is completely backwards. Yes on the travel thing though, even without mile-high videogames.
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Sep 30, 2019 21:29
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i've called my friend and he tells me his fever is now over 9000
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Sep 30, 2019 21:30
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Popero posted:Also kids get crazy fevers, like your pediatrician won't bat an eye at 105, so your thinking is completely backwards. what my pediatrician won't bat an eye at and what I won't bat an eye at when it comes to my toddler are two very different things
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Sep 30, 2019 21:33
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Shouldn't that be your wife's problem
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Sep 30, 2019 21:35
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blarzgh posted:You have to use a pretty sideways definition of "democracy" to claim it doesn't currently exist in like 250 countries It's democracy when the people and policies I like win out, it's electoralism when they don't.
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Sep 30, 2019 22:31
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evilweasel posted:realpost: if i have to travel for work should i deliberately change my flight so i'm not on a plane with any other people from my firm so i can play my switch on the plane without shame Also: the random feverish associate should just take a sick day. If you're sick, you're sick. No one's gonna ask how high your fever is. Just stay home, log in and work from home (if you can) and tell people you are under the weather, and no one will really care. Biglaw partners are used to associates quitting right before the deal signs; someone who's sick and logs in from home isn't going to be a problem.
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Sep 30, 2019 22:33
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Mr. Nice! posted:Here's an ethical quandary that just dropped into my lap. Our firm represents a client in a PI case. Case has merit, and opposing party is liable. After a lot of back and forth bullshit with the opposing party re: medpay and such, we got a local doctor and hospital to agree to do a needed surgery with a lien on recovery. Client today called and said that after he has the needed surgery, he's going to skip town and abandon litigation.   You're thinking in the right direction, and I think you'd be fine with just withdrawing. The 'shall' language in 4-1.16 covers you pretty well. You might have client come in for a talk and lay out the situation if you think that might change his mind re: his fraud (and if you'd want to carry that risk of him saying he wouldn't run but running anyway)
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Sep 30, 2019 22:37
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100 ain’t a real fever and 150k ain’t real biglaw
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Sep 30, 2019 22:51
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I take sick days when I feel tired Lol
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Sep 30, 2019 23:02
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gently caress all y’all if I’m feeling lovely enough to take my temperature if I’m a bp over 99.5 I’m using that as an excuse to at least work from home if not play video games all day.
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Sep 30, 2019 23:03
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evilweasel posted:realpost: if i have to travel for work should i deliberately change my flight so i'm not on a plane with any other people from my firm so i can play my switch on the plane without shame How the gently caress is this a real question?
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Sep 30, 2019 23:08
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nm posted:How the gently caress is this a real question? I wanted to confirm it wasn’t just my dislike of work socializing pushing me to do it and that I wasn’t being weird thankfully I haven’t played the remake of links awakening yet
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Sep 30, 2019 23:23
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Child me could never finish trading my poo poo up for whatever came at the end of that chain of transactions Makes u think
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Oct 1, 2019 00:43
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My company doesn’t even do sick days. I was sick this past spring for three days and it was just an “occurrence” and not a big deal. Pretty awesome IMO. Also, PA bar results are supposedly this week and I’m flying to Vegas tomorrow morning for the week with a couple of my buddies from the PD’s office. Not a bad place to find out if I passed or failed.
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Oct 1, 2019 00:43
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Like 95% of first time pa takers pass iirc
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Oct 1, 2019 00:44
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The weird part is that you care if people see you playing your switch
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Oct 1, 2019 00:47
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euphronius posted:Like 95% of first time pa takers pass iirc Toona is an exceptional person.
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Oct 1, 2019 00:54
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blarzgh posted:The weird part is that you care if people see you playing your switch Big law associates are like Baptist ladies and drinking. They all do it but would be horrified if someone they know saw them do it.
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Oct 1, 2019 00:55
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Toona the Cat posted:Also, PA bar results are supposedly this week and I’m flying to Vegas tomorrow morning for the week with a couple of my buddies from the PD’s office. Not a bad place to find out if I passed or failed. Just do what I did when I found out I passed* the Nevada bar exam: go to Frankie's Tiki Room and drink til some random Brit calls you a oval office for passing out on the floor. Actually considering doing that now, but more to get a break from the non-stop self-loathing and regret than to celebrate anything. *This actually happened within hours of finishing the exam, but I was very certain I was going to pass.
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Oct 1, 2019 01:34
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Look Sir Droids posted:Big law associates are like Baptist ladies and drinking. They all do it but would be horrified if someone they know saw them do it. Y'all could use a healthy dose of "gently caress 'em"
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Oct 1, 2019 01:50
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Toona the Cat posted:Also, PA bar results are supposedly this week and I’m flying to Vegas tomorrow morning for the week with a couple of my buddies from the PD’s office. Not a bad place to find out if I passed or failed. I know where this is going.
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Oct 1, 2019 02:30
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Discendo Vox posted:I know where this is going. Yeah, I think we all know how this ends: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-berkeley-student-exotic-bird-beheading-20131016-story.html A UC Berkeley law school graduate student was sentenced to six months at a prison boot camp Wednesday for beheading an exotic bird during a drunken chase at a Las Vegas Strip resort. Justin Alexander Teixeira, 25, will serve his sentence at a prison boot camp at High Desert State Prison in Indian Springs outside Las Vegas. Upon successful completion of the program and three to five years of probation, his felony charge could be reduced to a misdemeanor, the Associated Press reported. He could face one to four years in prison if he fails the program. Teixeira pleaded guilty to decapitating the bird, avoiding trial on the charge, as well as two other felony counts that could have led to up to eight years in prison, according to the Associated Press. Two other UC Berkeley students involved in the incident, Eric Cuellar, 25, and Hazhir Kargaran, 26, pleaded guilty to misdemeanors. They were fined and sentenced to community service. Security video showed Teixeira and the two other students laughing and chasing a 14-year-old helmeted guinea fowl, a chicken-sized bird, around the Flamingo Hotel’s Wildlife Habitat on Oct. 12, 2012. Teixeira wrung the bird’s neck, and tossed the body one way and the head into nearby rocks, the AP reported. He will learn whether he passed the California bar exam next month, his attorney said. Whether he will be allowed to practice law could depend on whether the felony remains on his record.
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Oct 1, 2019 02:55
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Vox Nihili posted:Yeah, I think we all know how this ends: This is what you get for giving John Yoo a professorship.
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Oct 1, 2019 02:59
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I guess that guy never made it into legal practice for obvious reasons, but he works at SoFi (student loan refinancing service/bank) now as some sort of senior manager. So ultimately Toona is still on track to follow his trajectory, just gotta choke that chicken and he's there.
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Oct 1, 2019 03:07
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Vox Nihili posted:I guess that guy never made it into legal practice for obvious reasons, but he works at SoFi (student loan refinancing service/bank) now as some sort of senior manager. So ultimately Toona is still on track to follow his trajectory, just gotta choke that chicken and he's there. I'm sure John Yoo could hook him up with a job at ... Vox Nihili posted:Teixeira wrung the bird’s neck, and tossed the body one way and the head into nearby rocks, the AP reported. joat mon posted:e: I'm digging the idea of what OLC's offices look like now. I'm thinking a seedy den of bokors with mostly Petro veves all over. He'd be a perfect fit for OLC.
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sullat posted:Toona is an exceptional person. Lmao
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