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For REPAYE, you have to file jointly. Which IBR payment is she on? Are you PAYE eligible? What’s her salary and your debt loads? There are times where it’s better to file jointly if you both have large debt numbers. For example, if her debt to income ratio is pretty significant, it will be beneficia...

Some guy in my firm apparently got 100K for billing 3K hours. A partner said jokingly ppl will feel bad when compared to this associate's performance. I was like nah bruh. Not even. Sucks how billing 3000 hours is automatically viewed as "good performance". I've worked with a few people who have hi...

Yeah my understanding of lrap was you sign up for PAYE but then over pay according to your lrap received monthly allowance which is equivalent/pegged to the 10 year repayment. No difference in that case but you get some government benefits under PAYE. So I think it’s actually slightly beneficial to ...

AOT - My plan A (as discussed above) would be the same: be on PAYE and put the excess covered by your LRAP to your loans. Based on the income exemption worldtraveler mentioned, your PAYE should be 0 for all time you’re abroad and under the 100k+ threshold. However, if that plan is not an option, I w...

On a different topic than PSLF, I just got back my REPAYE recertification. Not bad. Mine is based on full year employment in biglaw (ish) including bonus and everything.... Still comes out wayyy less than my 10 year flat payments are (based on what they revert me to while processing my recertificat...

The govt fucked it up. They couldn’t process people’s annual/IDR applications on time. Have you not read some of the wildly inconsistent crazy shit me and chicken have posted? The govt contracts this out to the most inept orgs. All of the news botched this story. You think 99% of people are paying m...

What kind of lit would you want to do? I don’t know a ton about these firms, especially their lit groups. I’d probably pick Katten just for the money and the fact that I’ve known multiple people to work there now and none have left in years (1 been there 6 years; 1 joined in 2015 as a mid level and ...

HUGE private letter ruling issued by the IRS (not amounting to precedent but is a blessing) that companies can set up 401ks for employees to go to student loan payments. Next step is for congress to authorize a higher 401k amount (tbd obviously) but if so, people on RE/PAYE will be able to defer inc...

Trying to decide if I should try to pay the accrued interest on my loans before it capitalizes in a couple months. Are the pros/cons I might not be thinking about for this? Similarly, are there pros/cons to going ahead and taking the loans out of deferment early or making early payments? Entirely d...

Thanks for taking questions. Just graduated and have 80k in federal loans. Starting big law soon. I don't think I have more than two years of big law in me. Is it misguided to spend my first year paying off this 80k as aggressively as possible (hopefully in a little over 1 year), and spend the rest...

Bumping this thread for anyone that wants to throw out their personal numbers since there should be some graduates looking into this soon. 1) with refi rates on the rise, REPAYE becomes more attractive bc the govt pays half your unpaid interest each month which effectively reduces your rate 2) with ...

Yeah it happens a decent amount. How have you seen it happen? Need advice. Thanks! Probably by (1) having excellent academics and (2) coming from a top pier firm or a top firm to a *lesser* firm. Just requires mass mailing and applying broadly with a compelling narrative for why you want to switch ...

Yeah it happens a decent amount.

Chasing prestige is where many people go wrong and why their biglaw careers end abruptly

The economy is good so they can’t really fire anyone right now.

1 million or bust (household student loan debt)

It’s pretty much always safe to assume tight lipped associates = above market comp. it’s an implicit understanding.

Johannes wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 15, 2018 6:34 pm

Johannes wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 12, 2018 8:37 am

This isn’t a top 15 move. At least 50 firms will move including some that aren’t sniffing 1 million rpl or 3m ppp.

Seen/heard enough from non-ny/SF markets with these numbers gonna do match and bonus. This puppy is done - Texas, dc, SF nyc; 80%+ of V100 gone.

Called it.

BullPenn wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 19, 2018 4:59 pm

James Baxter wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 19, 2018 4:50 pm

Latham probably just sends an email out to the partners with voting buttons.

fire 50% of associates y/n

Whoops think I misclicked. Oh well it’s gone now.

They are all moving. You realize how large these bureaucracies are? It’s just red tape at this point.

You guys are so impatient. Everyone’s falling in line.

Johannes wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 12, 2018 8:37 am

This isn’t a top 15 move. At least 50 firms will move including some that aren’t sniffing 1 million rpl or 3m ppp.

Seen/heard enough from non-ny/SF markets with these numbers gonna do match and bonus. This puppy is done - Texas, dc, SF nyc; 80%+ of V100 gone.

Big Red wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 14, 2018 5:23 pm

hm, still waiting on movement from native TX firms right?

You guys look at this all wrong. “Native” means nothing in today’s legal landscape. That was proven during 180k.

the firms skadden considers its peers have a requirement of zero so let's not go overboard and call 900 obscenely low. an associate could easily be below 900 at this point even tho they'll hit 1800-2000 by year end. are there stats on how many associates miss year-end bonus? like actual stats, not ...

bruinfan10 wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 14, 2018 4:36 pm

dude. forget DC, who even works in that swamp anyway. where are the CA firms. this is getting intolerable.

Chilllllll Don’t you know the song and dance yet