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My email is from fed loan servicing, “an office of the US department of education” and also bears the dept of education insignia. I’d consider that from dept of education.

Yeah DACA is what I was getting at. I think we’re good regardless. Will opinion in my eyes.

I work in government, and I’m really hoping to qualify for PSLF after just a few more years. Is it safe to pay nothing on my loans until January 2021? Can I safely assume that DOE will properly implement Trump’s executive order on student loans? Yes. Dept of Ed is also an agency. Arbitrary and capr...

Nebby wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 23, 2020 11:20 am

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky ... ation/amp/

Yep just got my email from the dept of Ed confirming each $0 waived payment counts the same. Awesome!

Worst case scenario you don’t make 3 payments right now and they don’t count. I don’t see why you’d make 3 payments where a $0 payment might count.

No I hadn’t gotten there yet. I disagree and think they will count. Trump is literally telling the agency how to do it. It’s an APA question and there’s no clear law on this specific issue but I think forgiveness or not (or counting the payment) if done by the agency would be an agency action. The s...

In what sense? Other than making sure that someone fills out the appropriate form so you can certify it was a qualifying job, there isn’t anything to do. I mean when you leave it for good. I was 2.5 years in and left for private practice during the pandemic. I normally would be doing my annual cert...

My b. Thought that was the sarcasm.

SLS takes a lead over YLS in the clerking numbers this year! Also LOL@ their defensive-sounding specificity w/ the JD-Advantage jobs... "THESE ARE THE COOL ONES, NOT THE LAME ONES GUYS!!!" In all seriousness, those are quite impressive JD-advantage gigs though! Harvard continues to lag Chicago on c...

Harvard - 74.1% (+1.4%) Columbia - 84.0% (+2.0%) Virginia - 78.3% (-5.0%) UCLA - 51.4% (+3.0%) WUSTL - 52.3% (+0.1%) Florida - 24.2% (+7.3%) Washington & Lee - 35.5% (+9.8%) Barring a surprise off the top rope from NYU or Northwestern, I believe we're able to crown Columbia as the elite employment ...

icechicken wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 18, 2020 12:28 am

Duke > sTTTanford confirmed

Why do people post this stupid shit. Clearly Stanford grads are going to venture capital and tech right out the gate.

Do thousands of practice MBE questions multiple choice. Everyone you get wrong dissect the hell out of.

Gives you another year with lower expectations and to make good money. In an up or out model, at worst it prolongs your inevitable being asked to leave. At best, it gives you a year to learn and be more partner ready. Since no one is making equity partners on any kind of schedule, certainly not one ...

Hoping for raises before the downturn is just asking for a duller blade before the lathaming

Ny remains; everyone else to 160k please and thank you

Except we know that’s wrong for our only 2 examples: Jones day and wachtell. Both black box. One above market player and one below market. One firm had 0 associates over 8 years blab to ATL; the other had like 100+ associates in 1 month blab.

A lot of these smaller firms that fucking grind want associates to buy into the culture. They don’t want the comp to be a distinguishing factor to an outsider/money whore. They want people committed to the team and don’t have a shortage of interest so they don’t have to set themselves apart from mar...

Key word being tight lipped ASSOCIATES. Tight lipped firm black box would def be below market. Tight lipped associates are above market. No one knows how much wachtell is above market anymore. 2nd years there prolly making like 500k ATL hasn’t gotten an update since they were 100% bonused.

The above is good advice, but I’d also consider reworking your resume at this point some too.

If you’re going to a firm with rotational program, rotate through things.

But yeah sounds like you should try transactional at a biglaw firm. And if you don’t like that, then you should probably think about non big law options.

Probably best to start by identifying the region you want to practice in as this stuff is pretty region dependent.

Then comb chambers and look at the band 1 practitioners for that region and look at their bios and you can see what they do.

Money in SPY averages a 9% annual return though. So yeah maximization is almost always risk preference based.

The subsidized loans don’t accrue interest in interest fwiw on PAYE for 3 years. Not sure if that’s true under standard 10 year payment or whatever lrap pays, but worth looking into that. Might be a moot point.

Ah small debt load and see you have some biglaw later from op. There’s no optimization here though. Just a risk preference. You can either get a guaranteed return on your loan balance or put the money in the market for an unguaranteed return or just buy shit you want and pretend it has a mark up on ...

Wait you’re planning to ride out lrap?! Don’t make any payments if going lrap or Pslf