LawSchool.Life

I strongly agree with the above post. You are not alone and what you feel is totally normal. Some of the below advice is probably obvious, but I’ll throw it out there since I have pretty bad anxiety over public speaking, especially formal occasions in court or before agencies. Practice until you can...

For a stub that’s normal IME. I only started needing to work on weekends once I got ramped up on a number of projects and weekend work became a matter of just needing that time to finish everything on my plate - not necessarily people emailing me to do stuff on the weekends (though that also happens...

Probably depends on the firm, but basically you just work more. At my firm, probono hours count towards billables with no hard limit. If you do more than 20% probono you will get a talking to and it's likely that anyone who is even close to that number is not on partner track. But that does leave pl...

patentlit wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 13, 2018 5:50 pm

as at september 13 (today), 1950 hours billable. year ends Dec 31.

I'm ready for the year to end.

That is fucking harsh man

Regulatory is better than either as far as I'm concerned. But people would probably throw it in the litigation bucket (and I do some litigation when it comes to that). I have always felt like transactional is mostly for people who didn't like what they did in law school and don't know what else to d...

Otoh being a partner and a head coach is one way to ball out of control

This type of class action is literally a public service. Let’s be careful here with the use of the word “literally.” You are not literally doing a public service. If you were literally doing a public service, you wouldn’t be taking 40% of what the the slice of the public you’re helping was awarded,...

I say dumb/awkward stuff all the time, nothing quite as unfortunate as this, but shit happens, especially if you're an anxious speaker. Just try to be better and take the advice of the people in this thread. Would not recommend stirring it up any further.

I want to be a judge, seems chill

Agreed with above. I am sure there were people who used it but I never heard about it, so not "pervasive." I would guess the majority of people who are taking it at UVA have legitimate prescriptions and aren't just calling undergrad hook ups for a study bump or something.

whole thing seems so weird

definitely tell the recruiter.

agreed with the above. i started every closed book exam by immediately writing some broad level outline. as with all exams though, the best preparation is to take as many practice tests as possible. for policy essays, if you have some idea of what type of question might be asked, i'd have a few poli...

BroilersNotStewers wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 02, 2018 9:42 pm

Does anyone know which of the bigger firms, if any, are likely to have hard grade cutoffs? I was assuming Latham, Gibson, Irell, MTO, and Susman.

Probably all of these have hard cut offs, different for each school.

go be a career clerk

The small city Jones Day offices got bumped up to 180k today. So like Cleveland, Columbus, etc. Tbh that’s the only reason to work at jones Day. They got those podunk offices where you can make $$$$ where did you hear this? Cleveland is still at 170, not 180 Isn’t 170 a ton for Cleveland?

elie mystal’s melt down over the gerrymandering decision is not entirely unwarranted, but someone should check on him

Does any firm match?

I browse a lot of personal stuff on my work computer. Nothing inappropriate, but news/forums/banking/bills/etc. Maybe that makes me dumb, but no one has ever said anything to me. The firm limits access to most social media though, so I use my phone for that.

They're reporting Morgan Lewis match + bonus too.

SmokeytheBear wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 15, 2018 3:01 pm

bruinfan10 wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 15, 2018 3:00 pm

guys, where's the Latham memo I was promised for today.

Also anxiously awaiting this. It's only noon. We've got time.

I don't know, but they better get their shit together.

latham will likely match unofficially at the first summer academy meeting this afternoon and circulate a memo tomorrow. the academy is Arizona, so by the time they announce, NY will likely be after business hours

BigZuck wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 14, 2018 2:06 pm

JohnnieSockran wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 14, 2018 1:46 pm

freshy dog wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 14, 2018 1:45 pm

THe fact that Kirkland is still quiet means Kirkland to 200

How quickly did they match in 2016?

They had matched at this point in time so this pretty much confirms NY to AT LEAST 200K

This guy gets it

THe fact that Kirkland is still quiet means Kirkland to 200

250k confirmed!!!!