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Phil Moscowitz posted:And I did it. You're here, aren't you? Fffffuck Also since I'm up for a vote in the fall thanks for the existential terror inspired by the "so you're a partner now" post
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Aug 7, 2018 23:06
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The biographies section is particularly well done and 100% accurate
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Aug 7, 2018 23:19
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stopped posting for 3 years, still in the top 10 get on my level you fuckin trash
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Aug 8, 2018 03:23
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Discendo Vox posted:I saw a post about "auto admit" and horrible incel racism at the very end of the last thread, and now I'm intrigued. Autoadmit aka xoxohth was at one time a very popular lawchat forum filled with desperate misogynistic incel strivers obsessed with vault rankings, prestige and "owning libtards" It's still there but it's now a shadow of its former self, much like these very forums
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Aug 8, 2018 14:15
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blarzgh posted:A fitting end.
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Aug 8, 2018 22:15
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Alexeythegreat posted:Why would there be an "interests" section on a resume at all Mostly so when I get bored of talking about how much Fungible Snotnosed Law School Creep #1,451 "loves the law" I can have a conversation with him about football or whatever nm posted:PD in Hawaii who either moved or is moving to Michigan like an idiot.
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Aug 9, 2018 02:47
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I'm telling myself that thread about the gay kids inheritance is a troll so I can sleep at night
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Aug 9, 2018 15:44
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Phil Moscowitz posted:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2018/08/09/paul-manafort-trial-day-8-live-coverage/?utm_term=.983f43b64eef The trump thread is 100% convinced Ellis is out to ratfuck the case and I dont know how to adequately explain to then that no, most article iii judges are just egodriven preening turds
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Aug 9, 2018 20:10
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Millennial posted:I recommend a two month sabbatical from legal practice to flick the reset switch and re-energise. I can't really think of a faster way to tank your legal career in the toxic world of American law firms than to ask for a sabbatical. We had to basically threaten to strike to get the old fucks who run our firm to authorize a four-week paternity leave, and no one has been brave enough to take all four weeks yet. OId withered boomer partners view things like "wanting to spend time with your newly born child" or "taking a break so I don't kill myself and everyone around me" as weakness Vox Nihili posted:the older ones are effectively powerful, ancient, hateful liches.
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Aug 10, 2018 01:12
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GamingHyena posted:Just got a Not Guilty on a felony drug case where my guy was looking at a possible life sentence. Awesome. Imagine how mad the prosecutor is right now, stewing in impotent filth
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Aug 10, 2018 02:13
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:I honestly don't know how the rest of y'all do it.
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Aug 10, 2018 12:39
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Alexeythegreat posted:Where can I get that pallet you can pick one up at 5 AM in the corner office of any Senior Partner near you
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Aug 10, 2018 14:11
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ActusRhesus posted:gently caress that. Demi Moore looks like a more mature Actus Rhesus. Bitch is 20 years older than I am. your modesty is your most endearing quality Look Sir Droids posted:gently caress Texas
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Aug 13, 2018 13:03
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:Do not post sincere replies to throatwarbler. He is either a troll or evil. I genuinely hope he is real because I love the idea that someone as vapid and casually amoral as throatwarbler is a member of our august profession, and we helped get him there but sadly no one would post the words "the availability of affordable domestic help in Dubai are big draws, and I'm fine with Shari'a" unless they were trolling nm posted:Thoatwarbler is a worse person than SV. phil moscowitz voted for trump and you have the nerve to imply I'm the worst person in this thread???? Soothing Vapors fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Aug 14, 2018 |
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Aug 14, 2018 16:43
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Making poo poo up now, totally uncalled for we live in a post-truth society, deal with it old man Look Sir Droids posted:I don’t know, I think he laid some solid groundwork for Clueless Idiot with the are you a Jew email saga. If it’s a troll, it’s a long con. I will definitely agree he has put some serious manhours into pretending to be a moron
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Aug 14, 2018 17:44
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that reminds me, I found cloudberry flavored yogurt in my local yuppiefood store and when I saw it I was gripped by an overwhelming, jealous hatred of Nice Fish so intense it took my breath away plz invite me to yr cabin so I can talented Mr Ripley you, tia
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Aug 14, 2018 21:05
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RFX posted:I just started reading the last thread and this one after a year hiatus, which seems to correspond with when I started seeking help and started taking Prozac. I still hate my biglaw job and want to do something else, but at least I don't have breakdowns in the middle of work anymore and can make it through the day doing my job semi-competently. This is good advice and kudos for being smart enough to get some help
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Aug 15, 2018 01:53
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Aug 15, 2018 01:55
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nm posted:Please keep posting the legal thread, but make sure your posting isn't quite frequent enough to arouse suspicion. I was never going to post again (I really just wanted to post "common law means it's for the common man") but I am weak and lack discipline
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Aug 15, 2018 02:56
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SlyFrog posted:I think they primarily don't give a gently caress, and wonder why so much time is spent on figuring out which bathrooms people can use when they can't get decent paying jobs and are dying en masse from poor health care, drug epidemics, etc., and are seeing their purchasing power just get destroyed by growing wealth inequality. The difference is, to them, wealth inequality is solved magically by giving them more opportunities, rather than taking something from those who already have. 
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Aug 16, 2018 16:42
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america bad
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Aug 16, 2018 19:13
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Phil Moscowitz posted:When I read the book I honestly didn’t see any point to it. Just a meandering biography with no real critique or social commentary other than “granny was tough.” Yea Vance is a shitbag, his book is meaningless pablum, let's not fight about it dear friends
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Aug 17, 2018 00:12
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I remember when all we had to worry about in this life was whether John Kerry ate the right cheese on his sandwich and whether our president liked gay French mustard instead of heterosexual American mustard those were good days
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Aug 17, 2018 14:06
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blargh your new avatar is Very Good
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Aug 17, 2018 16:20
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Toona the Cat posted:Pittsburgh has a ridiculously low cost of living, my live-in ex-wife makes good money, I sold my house, and even with one week off out of every 4 I’m making more than my PD colleagues with 5-6 years experience. My company is $26 unlicensed, $32 licensed with no OT limit.
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Aug 18, 2018 19:57
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my newest criminal client is cellmates with a "lawyer" (read: not a lawyer). I've sunk immeasurable hours into his defense already. I drove two hours to meet with him, on a Sunday, so he could lecture me at length about how everything I've done to defend him is wrong, I don't understand the sentencing guidelines, I don't understand his "rights" under the offense he's been charged with, and I need to tell the USAO that we won't accept a plea offer with any penalty more severe than probation on the way home I drove over a wooden bridge and I swear to god it was the closest I've ever come. luckily I realized I need to be around to see Toona end up sucking dicks for meth in an alley in 2-4 years Soothing Vapors fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Aug 19, 2018 |
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Aug 19, 2018 18:27
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Cringing at how whiny that last post was. ol Vapors was feeling fussy about not being able to daydrink all day Sunday because of this turd. replaced 20% of my blood with bourbon as soon as I got back from lockup and I'm feeling much betterNice piece of fish posted:If it helps, motherfucker dug his own grave and you're just a paid coffin hauler. gently caress'm, he wants to antagonize and ignore the only guy on his team? He' gonna be just a story to you less than a week after he's put away. Pook Good Mook posted:Obviously make sure to get all this in writing, "I advised my client of X, he refuses anything that isn't Y. Signed:______" nm posted:This is like 50% of all public defender clients. The other half aren't in custody, so they don't have a cellie. Phil Moscowitz posted:Crim law is such utter poo poo  x2 Dont do crim folks, unless you're an AUSA
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Aug 20, 2018 01:40
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It's amazing how bad law students are at interviewing, and how little career services does to prep them. Every year, without fail, I reserve the last 5 minutes of an OCI screener to ask the candidate: "So what questions can I answer for you about Shitfucker, Snuffgoblin and Jones PLLC?" Generally speaking if you can't feign enough interest in my firm to find a few things to ask about, you're probably not getting a callback. That poo poo's like Interviewing 101. Every year, without fail, one third to one half of the kids I'm screening will shrug at me and say "I don't have any questions" or its cousin, "you answered all my questions." I have been interviewing at the same school for six years, and I have this exact discussion every year with career services in our post-OCI debrief. At no point does it ever appear that career services has ever passed this along to their kids. But then again, I've also had more than one kid straight up tell me "I'm not sure I want to be a lawyer, but I thought I'd try out a summer at your firm and see if I like it." Maybe there is just no helping law students. eke out posted:OCI interview question: how much should I focus on a firm's Dubai office, and to what extent should I ask them about their lol I enjoy your posts as a rule, but every one of them is made even better by imagining the dog in your avatar is posting it
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Aug 20, 2018 17:42
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Pook Good Mook posted:To play Devil's Advocate, almost no firm is special, and expecting someone to ask a question about a firm when you've given out a brochure and then talked to them about the firm's expectations is pissing into the wind. Like what do you want them to ask? How often do you guys have firm bbq's? Pose some sort of moderately intelligent question that I can then use as a springboard to start a dialogue with you about things that specifically interest you about our firm. Are you most interested in the city? The ~firm culture~? The ~work/life balance~? Corporate? Our thrilling and nonexistant international business law group that we trumpet on our website for some unknown reason? Litigation? My specific practice area? One of the topics covered on our recruitment website? A cool case I had? The tastiest partner dick I ever sucked? Asking questions 1.) relieves me of the burden of having to scan your pitiful trashbrain resume and ask you questions about why you joined the Federalist Society, 2.) allows me to convey to the partners who hold your greasy soul in their hands that you care so, so deeply about us. evilweasel posted:the most important reason to have questions to ask is the interviewer probably ran out of questions and wants to shift the burden onto you to come up with some, having no questions is not just poor preparation but you're making their life harder Exactly. Ani posted:You should convey that you have spent 2-3 hours researching the firm and envisioning working there and ask questions that would naturally arise out of that. They don't have to be particularly insightful, but should at least make sense. Easy questions are asking about the assignment system (free market vs rotations, how does it work in practice?), main practice areas especially when interviewing with someone who works in those areas, recent deals or cases (if the interviewer worked on them) or what kind of work junior associates will be getting and how that changes as you get more senior. That should be able to chew up 5-10 minutes, which is all you really need (and you can ask the same questions to each person at the same firm when you do a callback). You can also get the interviewers talking by asking them about their typical day or most interesting deal/case, and since lawyers love telling their boring war stories, it'll make them like you more as well. Also exactly. The fact that career services departments aren't out there teaching 1Ls the rules of this incredibly simple game is shameful.
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Aug 20, 2018 20:15
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Vox Nihili posted:Wow, he asked about culture? Probably scared of putting in the hours, strike him. No joke, a partner on our RC expressed his Grave and Serious Concerns about a promising minority candidate with good grades and good regional ties -- a practically unheard of trifecta in this market -- because the candidate asked about work/life balance at lunch, and he thought that was a sign of a weak and lazy mind or some poo poo. Our recruitment page uses the phrase work-life balance like 50 times. Luckily we outvoted him and then he was a passive aggressive twat for the rest of the meeting. What I'm trying to say here is death to all boomers
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My view: asking about work/life balance is very much an "it depends" kind of thing. If the firm's recruiting website talks about it at any length, that's an invitation to ask. I wouldn't make it my first/only question. And ask it in a smart way. BAD: "HEY CAN I GO HOME AT 5:30???" GOOD: "so, I saw your website mentioned that SS&J ranked 15th on Capitalism Magazine's 500 Cool Places to Die at Your Desk List last year -- what's your typical workday like? why do you think you ranked that highly?" Also it depends on your options. Desperate for any job so you don't have to fight Toona for methdick in the alley? Maybe be judicious. top 20% at a T14? pull the trigger, rock star SlyFrog posted:Seriously, I am in the camp that you never ask about work/life balance. It's the equivalent of asking about length and girth with a scared look on your face. It doesn't matter whether it's painful, your job is to just fit it in there somehow. No one wants to hear about how you don't like that stretched out feeling afterward. Soothing Vapors fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Aug 20, 2018 |
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Aug 20, 2018 22:25
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blarzgh posted:OC: "Well then you're just plain stupid. And if you file a motion to compel, we WILL be asking for our attorneys fees. Take care." I will never understand non-litigators, how can you not want this poo poo in your life
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Aug 21, 2018 02:41
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EwokEntourage posted:You had a good run but you jumped the shark with the slavery comments and now we are in that last season where no one gives a poo poo any more and the story lines are stupid I honest to god don't even know why people reply to him anymore, it's gone from subtle fun trolling to the kind of lazy, sloppy poo poo you'd see out of some TTT prosecutor's office in a New England backwater
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Aug 21, 2018 02:44
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Aug 21, 2018 15:37
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cant believe my good friend hot dog day number ninety and one is a fuckin snitch
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Aug 21, 2018 19:18
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Phil Moscowitz posted:I assume they remanded Manafort to the marshals after the verdict, right? He’s been incarcerated this whole time? yeah, remember he had a cushy jail cell with his own phone and crazy privileges, then his lawyers filed a dumb motion whining about dumb poo poo and the judge transferred him to a worse facility
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Aug 22, 2018 05:36
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:A final follow up to my ethics issue. The attorney has been let go due to failure to disclose a conflict. Im glad I reported. I was given his agency issued fan. lol to the victor, etc
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Aug 23, 2018 01:24
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:Oh I actually did advise him to tell the agency first. I spent an entire day telling him. He kept insisting it's not a conflict. It’s called flipping and it almost ought to be illegal. You dont have a fan. But if you say bad things about somebody, if you make up stories. They make up things and now they go from no fan to having a fan and they are a national hero.
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blarzgh posted:what quote:"It's called flipping and it almost ought to be illegal," Trump said in the interview, adding he's witnessed similar scenarios over his decades in public life. "I know all about flipping, 30, 40 years I have been watching flippers. Everything is wonderful and then they get 10 years in jail and they flip on whoever the next highest one is or as high as you can go." Soothing Vapors fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Aug 23, 2018 |
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