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ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE To prospective law students wanting to be a rootin tootin big law lawyerpants, read Yuns' schedule quoted in the fifth post. I SAY AGAIN: READ YUNS' SCHEDULE QUOTED IN THE FIFTH POST AND INTERNALIZE THAT poo poo BEFORE PROCEEDING
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dont go to law school there are such easier ways to make money, get an MBA and you can even tell us what to do one day jesus christ
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Aug 7, 2018 22:31
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Um excuse me I believe the correct plural form of walrus is walri
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Aug 8, 2018 19:29
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Throatwarbler posted:I mentioned this in the last thread, I'm still kind of interested in Singapore or Dubai. I recently spoke with an alumni who did international commercial arbitration in SG and HK and it sounds pretty good, the lack of tax for non-Americans and availability of affordable domestic help are big draws, and I'm fine with Shari'a. I like Dubai but education isn't one of its strong points and by the time I get there I will have school age children. Not so big on HK now for that reason, and TLS and friends who have been there say that the kind of work they do in HK is lovely and life-draining and there's no opportunity for personal development. Pro tip for working in Dubai: don’t go around asking people about their Jewish faith
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Aug 14, 2018 14:37
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Adar posted:The timeline isn't really adding up. Are schools even done with OCI yet? Callbacks definitely don't finish up for a month or more. Generally the T14 schools are moving their OCI’s earlier and earlier; some even into late July. Not saying all callback offers have been sent out, however.
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Aug 20, 2018 14:51
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https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1031586191626461185 drat, they're on to us.
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Aug 20, 2018 19:46
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GET MONEY posted:^^ yeah see fighting over clever carve outs, that’s the stuff that gets my engine revving What if I told you MAE is not clever in any way and a lot of the time is misused to cover up poor drafting skills.
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Aug 23, 2018 19:01
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evilweasel posted:please i just redistribute money between large hedge funds depending on which one was smart enough to hire me, its basically victimless no matter who wins Same but between large oil & gas companies and large banks, so basically the two most hated groups in America.
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Sep 6, 2018 15:14
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We should just kill everyone, humanity can’t be trusted
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Sep 7, 2018 02:32
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Nice piece of fish posted:Bigly. Colloquially known as the ""dessert generation", they are the very numerous descendants of the war generation. Enjoying unprecedented wealth after oil and 80s inflation obliterating most debt as well as getting mostly free educations, they voted in right wing government after right wing government to reduce taxes, eliminate inheritance tax (for them, effectively), bloated housing prices to obscene levels, reducing their pension age while increasing ours and strangled young housebuyers by instituting capital requrements for housing loans locking a good portion of millennials out of the market. Now, they've even successfully sold our infinite water power to europe to extract more wealth from our loving natural resources. God drat, it's like looking in a mirror. We need to bring the phrase "dessert generation" over here.
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Sep 13, 2018 19:56
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Nice piece of fish posted:I mean sure, but I was referring to like, I can put a few in an apartment in the city, probably ten or so in the summerhouse, eight at the most up at the cabin, so you're gonna have to be willing to have a rotation I think. Who likes crab fishing and northern lights? I posted about the summer house in my DIY thread: Nice dog homie
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Oct 5, 2018 01:51
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Vox Nihili posted:Goddamn biglaw churn is insane. I've only been here a bit over a year since lateraling and half of the associates I've worked with have bailed. It seems like the hardest workers are the first to leave, too. Yeah see this is why I try my hardest to coast. As soon as you start to apply your brain and add substantive comments senior associates and mid levels start coming out of the woodwork to put you on deals. Thread recommendation: the salaryman thread in GBS. Someone always has it worse.
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Oct 5, 2018 23:05
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Discendo Vox posted:good news from sheriff Joe! COMES NOW ON BEHALF OF ALL JEWS
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Oct 17, 2018 18:25
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Alexeythegreat posted:My money's on oil. If you have oil, you automatically get corruption and organized crime. Maybe it's not to the extent of Middle East/Eastern Europe/Latin America, because Norway, but still See here in America we don’t have that problem because we just let the O&G corporations break peoples’ legs
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Oct 19, 2018 15:15
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Phil Moscowitz posted:I think Jar Jar has to initiate it. Ah but if you knew your lore *loud snorting* you would know that it is Natalie Portman who moves for a vote of no confidence.
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Oct 22, 2018 16:28
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Solo was an enjoyable flick. I liked how Lando mispronounced his name on purpose to explain that part of Empire. Seemed odd to have Roy Munson as a grizzled bounty hunter though. Yeah it was fine. I probably liked Rogue One better but I’m the only person in my circle of friends who preferred Last Jedi to Force Awakens so I’m not exactly a bellwether.
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Oct 22, 2018 22:58
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Vox Nihili posted:Last Jedi was a cheesy laugh-out-loud movie for the whole family. My favorite part was when effectively all of the good guys were brutally killed after the many zany plans fell through. My other favorite part was the opening scene featuring the use of clunky, WW2 style gravity bomb munitions in space. Yes it was incredible Like, just to be clear I have no defense of the movie and am in no way interested in defending it because I know it’s mostly schlock. I just really love the schlock. disjoe fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Oct 22, 2018 |
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Oct 22, 2018 23:20
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Alexeythegreat posted:You nerds We have recurring Gilbert & Sullivan chat and you’re just now coming to this realization
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Oct 23, 2018 00:37
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mastershakeman posted:How do you have laws in a universe that doesn't have books What the gently caress are you talking about of course they had books you nitwit they had just mostly moved them over to loving holocrons and poo poo, you moron efb
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Oct 24, 2018 18:39
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I’m drowning in bank internal compliance checklists (Yuns probably did those a decade ago or whatever) and I’m like two weeks behind on my time. Not like I post here very often anyway. On the bright side, beautiful day outside. I can see it if I get right up against the window in my office and look to the side because otherwise it’s just a view of a building. Go to law school.
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Nov 2, 2018 20:26
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Vox Nihili posted:Noooooo IT ONLY GETS WORSE THE LONGER YOU PUT IT OFF HEED MY WORDS NEW ASSOCIATES
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Nov 2, 2018 21:09
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Yuns posted:I can't stay away when someone mentions bank compliance and regulatory. We had a borrower fail KYC recently. I’ve never seen that before. Obviously the transaction immediately came to a halt but I don’t know what happened next.
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Nov 2, 2018 21:22
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:You all live a miserable existence. Yuuup Look I’m just here to pay off my loans/save some money and learn poo poo for when I inevitably burn out and go in house. Life becomes a lot easier when you plan to not become partner. e: I lied life is in no way easier. Caught up on my hours and I billed roughly 230 last month, which includes a few days of "vacation". Go to law school. disjoe fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Nov 5, 2018 |
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Nov 5, 2018 16:29
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I would like to think that article would cause some amount of introspection and change in biglaw but I’m not stupid.
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Nov 12, 2018 20:06
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Sushi is a sandwich, which is also a burrito, which is also a fruit, all food is the exact same as all other food, gently caress it nothing matters, there is zero difference between all things, you imbeciles, you loving morons, and we’re all going to die cold and alone (except for those of you in California, who will die hot and alone)
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Nov 16, 2018 00:46
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Just lol if you wear ties period I imagine it’s required for all you court-appearance-havers tho
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Nov 16, 2018 22:45
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Whitlam posted:Relevant Australian conduct rules and ethical code, for those who are curious. lol no gently caress them
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Dec 4, 2018 22:21
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:Well I hosed up my pleadings under the local rules but the automatic stay was lifted so I can destroy grandmas home. It’s a Christmas miracle
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Phil Moscowitz posted:I assume this is a reference but actually I guess this is just the state ODC referring those charges to the disciplinary board. https://twitter.com/associatesmind/status/1075029519977902080 Should've followed up with "govern yourself accordingly" imo disjoe fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Dec 18, 2018 |
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Dec 18, 2018 19:15
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DuWay posted:Yeah this is true, but what if you're a biglaw associate and you're too junior (2nd year) to really look at any in-house positions for probably at least 1-1.5 more years? I have a friend who went in-house a few months ago and she’s class of 2016. She just told the partners that she was done and they set her up with a nice in house job. Not saying she’s the typical case but it’s always possible
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Ani posted:I think this is all really overstated. You know you've got a great argument when you're comparing work/life to being an i-banker. But I generally agree with this except the work from home thing doesn't really kick in until you're late midlevel or early senior associate. And even then you should probably show up to the office if you want to make partner. As for the moral part of it, yes my job is absolutely to the detriment of society. No I do not care about it very much because society sucks. Plus this career moved me from a miserable existence in podunk to a comfortable life in a big city. Ani posted:This certainly seems a bit overstated. What makes biglaw particularly worse than just about any job in the private sector? All jobs with large companies (which comprise the majority of jobs) serve corporate/capital interests but I don't know why that means they are necessarily acting to the detriment of regular people. I'm on your side but I think the perception is office drones in large companies are cogs in the machine trying to get by, whereas attorneys are comparatively independent professionals that can redirect their career trajectory towards less desirable jobs that serve their communities. But what do I know, I'm just smart enough to have a biglaw job but just dumb enough to stick with it. e: oh hey I work in banking & finance too. I feel like there's overrepresentation in that area among biglawyers here. disjoe fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Jan 9, 2019 |
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Jan 9, 2019 22:52
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Vox Nihili posted:Hell, I'd prefer not to work at all. There are people at my firm who have inherited gross wealth (like literally descended from old world aristocracy) and all I can think is: why the gently caress are you doing this? They probably feel guilty about it and work hard to compensate, but I'd much rather start a business or philanthropy or some other dumb poo poo than work in loving biglaw.
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Look Sir Droids posted:Yeah, no top tier law school grads who are willing to do the work of two $100,000 employees are going to want to take a pay cut. And you remove the possibility of being a high earner right out of law school from the table, so you get less competitive people in law school. All of that sounds sane to a normal person, but not to alpha dog law firms. From the associate’s perspective student loans are also an issue. The price of a top-tier law school is calibrated to associate salaries at top-tier law firms. If you’ve got $200k or whatever in student loan debt, you’d want the possibility of PSLF or something in exchange for such a dramatic pay cut. also Pook Good Mook posted:I'm pissing into the wind on this, but has there ever been any sort of honest conversation at large law firms that paying two associates $100,000 each for the work you're paying one person $180,000 for and halving the workload will likely produce better work product and keep associates longer? Associate burnout is the crux of the entire business model. If you had associates stay for longer you'd either have to make more partners, in which case the existing partners have fewer equity shares, or you'd have to make a whole lot of associates counsel or non-equity partner, in which case you've got a bunch of people commanding high salaries but no one bringing in new business. disjoe fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Jan 16, 2019 |
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I’m 100% sure I’ll be up against the wall once the revolution comes but until then 
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Drafting collateral documents with a head cold on a beautiful Saturday morning. e: gently caress it’s afternoon already disjoe fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Jan 26, 2019 |
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Jan 26, 2019 19:59
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:https://twitter.com/Ugarles/status/1093539653230182400?s=19 I like how the guy put together an entire fake email chain to forward to the partner. Never trust real estate specialists.
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Justice BREYER “Who?”
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Feb 15, 2019 21:43
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I feel like to be a successful and happy corporate biglawyer you have to be just smart enough to be good at your job but not smart enough to internalize there are more fulfilling alternatives out there and what you do is pointless. Idk. I’m a junior corporate biglawyer and I like my job well enough but I wish I had more time to play video games. Yuns posted:There is a legal questions thread. But bank have very specific record retention rules. Various data has 5 and 7 year retention requirements (there are other time durations but 5 and 7 apply to a majority of types of records) Typically transaction information is kept at least 5 years and account information relating to the holder is kept at least 5 years after the account is closed. And yet somehow a bank is able to lose their original promissory note for the same transaction three loving times in a row and I have to stay up late over a lost note affidavit disjoe fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Mar 2, 2019 |
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Mar 2, 2019 05:01
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Meatbag Esq. posted:I feel like if you're in house and don't have enough time to play as many video games as you want you're doing something wrong not counting infinite time sinks like mmo's... that said I've been coasting in an IP department that doesn't really require me to give my all. Oh for sure, that’s probably living the dream. My friends have been going in house to the same huge megacorp and they get every other Friday off. Not to mention the psychological value of knowing that when you’re off work, you’re completely off.
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Lote posted:Question for the Federal peeps. How hosed is Stone? relase (together with the ) Best loving attorneys
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