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If it matters the OP is correct. I'm NYC big law, god help me. So tired.
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I was doing a screener interview the other day and someone had the following in the interests section of their resume: "maintaining my dog's instagram page" Is that a thing that is acceptable to put in your interests now?
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Aug 8, 2018 22:52
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BigHead posted:In a world where any trained gerbil can do your job, often the only thing separating one gerbil from the other is the way an interviewee connects with the interviewer. A GPA doesn't tell me whether you are or are not a stinky neckbeard who has a waifu pillow at home. I want to know if you run marathons or run a local chess club or build ornate cabnitery or whatever. This is basically it. Once I see that you meet the basic academic requirements, the question becomes would I be able to tolerate you if you were a junior working on one of my cases.
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Aug 8, 2018 23:50
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Soothing Vapors posted:I'm telling myself that thread about the gay kids inheritance is a troll so I can sleep at night Sign of the times I guess when you just can't tell.
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Aug 9, 2018 16:31
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Mr. Nice! posted:It's not remotely shocking that someone that was isolated from his family because he was gay willed his estate to his life-partner nor is it shocking that familial pressure could force someone inside the circle to ignore the will and lock out the widower. It reads like a troll to me because the guy posting is like "omg I didn't think this was such a serious issue we just thought it was more fair for us to get the money" and "omg I can't believe it we could be in trouble for stealing this guys money whaaaaaat I can't believe he's suing us where did he even get the will." Nobody can be that stupid, right? mikeraskol fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Aug 9, 2018 |
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Aug 9, 2018 16:45
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Pook Good Mook posted:Aren't you a lawyer? Yeah, though I've never done any family/domestic stuff like this just (for the most part) securities class actions. So the best stories/stupidest things I've seen are just your run of the mill dumb e-mails.
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Aug 9, 2018 16:57
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Harsh, but fair.
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Aug 9, 2018 22:45
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Nevermind
mikeraskol fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Aug 10, 2018 |
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Aug 10, 2018 03:28
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ActusRhesus posted:Seriously though. A++ trolling. It’s just enough to be funny without tipping your hand. A work of art really. It didn't really get the reaction I hoped was coming when I first read it. Just one dude asking if he got whooshed and Euph.
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Aug 15, 2018 16:43
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GET MONEY posted:Upon research I've narrowed the most magic bullet-y practices down to: I clearly missed a bunch of posts here but what the gently caress is this? I’m getting whooshed super hard right?
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Aug 25, 2018 16:10
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GET MONEY posted:I do care about career earning potential (as a byproduct of doing interesting work solving problems and developing case strategy), but having to do jury trials regularly would be a big negative. This is all just early planning so I can tailor my extracurriculars and prioritize firms. Yeah this is a troll. Extracurriculars rofl.
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Aug 25, 2018 19:27
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GET MONEY posted:Pretty sure your demonstrated interests can still impact your trajectory Can I tell you something honestly if you aren't a troll? I'm on a hiring committee at a NYC big law firm. I (and everyone else doing what I do) don't give two fucks about your extracurriculars or your demonstrated interests or your classes or whatever. I care about your grades and whether you can come across in a 30 minute interview as a normal human being. If you really really really want to get in big law just worry about getting your rear end in the door. Then, once you are in the summer program, you can gently caress around with different practice groups or whatever. But unless you're literally a Pomeroy at NYU or whatever the gently caress the equivalent is at Columbia or whatever at Harvard I don't give a flying gently caress about your preferences. I'm not in the wrap meeting at the end of OCI going "ugh I just love how much he was into soft IP." mikeraskol fucked around with this message at 06:50 on Aug 26, 2018 |
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Aug 26, 2018 06:48
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Ani posted:Agree with this, except that if you apply to a firm that has a large practice that isn't something law students want to do (ie, something niche like aircraft leasing), then expressing an interest in that could be helpful. If you are especially interested in M&A or cap markets though, no one cares. Very fair point.
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Aug 26, 2018 17:41
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Bunch of nerds up in here. Now excuse me while I go play Dota 2.
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Aug 27, 2018 20:25
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evilweasel posted:pay no attention to why none of the real associates have time to come to these events, except for the ones who you mysteriously won't see when you come back as a first year Ehhhhhhhhhh
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May 22, 2019 20:27
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Nice.
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May 30, 2019 17:15
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blarzgh posted:Yo nobody told me Dragon Age Inquisition was so much fun I think maybe nobody told you that because nobody thinks that?
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Jun 4, 2019 20:33
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terrorist ambulance posted:And I've still got God of War and the last of us sitting unopened for my PS4. Legitimately two of the best games ever made. Significantly better than DA. I would get in on that.
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Jun 7, 2019 18:21
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blarzgh posted:The Witcher III: The Wild Hunt is far and away the best video game ever made, even adjusted for era. This is also true. I think, in some shape or form, the best games I've played in the last 15 years or so are: Witcher 3 God of War Last of Us Uncharted 4 Bloodborne/Sekiro (pick whichever you prefer, I'd say Bloodborne but both are just flat out incredible) Red Dead Redemption (I'm super partial to Persona 5 as well but I leave it out because it doesn't have the broad appeal like those games above.) mikeraskol fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Jun 7, 2019 |
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Jun 7, 2019 20:11
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Monaghan posted:Also DMC 5 is legit the best game of this generation and I'll fight anyone who disagrees It's certainly up there. DMC5 and Sekiro coming out around the same time was basically action gaming nirvana. I had a feeling Cyberpunk was going to be the greatest game ever made, and that was before I saw that Keanu was in it.
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Jun 10, 2019 17:34
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Phi230 posted:So what happens when the left in America doesn't disappear as you expect? Do you really think the socialist movement is tied to Bernie and Bernie alone? lol
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Sep 24, 2019 20:16
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Phil Moscowitz posted:God I hope Barr and Giuliani get indicted. Not a chance.
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Sep 26, 2019 18:27
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Monaghan posted:So a partner at my firm called me in and said I've been doing well and everyone's pretty much agreed to making me partner by the end of next year. My girlfriend and I have been trying for a kid the past few months and she told me this evening that she's pregnant. Congratulations - fantastic news all around.
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Dec 11, 2019 14:58
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Soothing Vapors posted:In his despair, DVox prayed to God for the first time in decades -- prayed for God to curse the writers of that black thread, as the writers have cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth -- a world which now trembles before the Law Megathread. It is well known how the Megathread spread like an infectious disease, from city to city, from continent to continent, barred out here, confiscated there, denounced by press and pulpit, censured even by the most advanced of literary anarchists. No definite principles had been violated in those wicked pages, no doctrine promulgated, no convictions outraged. It could not be judged by any known standard, yet, although it was acknowledged that the supreme note of art had been struck in "The Law Megathread" all felt that human nature could not bear the strain nor thrive on words in which the essence of purest poison lurked. 
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Dec 13, 2019 19:59
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GrandmaParty posted:"Not offering for the truth of the matter asserted but only to show that it was sent." My go to right here
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Apr 8, 2021 18:36
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Bold Robot posted:For those of you who work in big law, what sense are you getting from your offices about what their plans are for remote work going forward? My office hasn't announced anything concrete, but it isn't exactly a secret that management is jonesing for asses in seats 5 days a week. I really, really do not want to go back to doing that and I hope that is not the way the industry is headed. NYC big law. I think more people are likely to leave the officer earlier (6-8pm) to head home, eat dinner there, and be more comfortable working at home the rest of the night. But there isn't going to be some massive shift to working from home. I think there will be substantially less travel for useless things like mediation (just doing them remotely since it was already heading that way anyways with things like the 2d Circuit CAMP mediations that were all done by phone).
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evilweasel posted:Below 2000 you aren’t getting a bonus but you won’t be fired for it. I missed 2000 plenty of years. We’re 1800 for bonus. I’m over halfway there already this year woohoo.
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