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Partner criticized me for missing cross reference in SPA
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 1:09 PM Author: swashbuckling magenta dragon potus Sends me 80 page stock purchase agreement at 9:30 pm and asks for markups that night. I miss one incorrect cross reference.
Partner makes additional revisions to my version, sends to other side.
Partner criticizes me in the morning for not paying attention to detail and missing a cross reference at 10pm.
Meanwhile, partner's revision (sent to client and other side)has a big typo made by him. Lol this is like an XO flame. Law may actually be the worst profession on the planet.
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Date: November 1st, 2015 8:06 PM Author: dashing institution chad This is standard shit brah u know that by now (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#29089688) |
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Date: November 1st, 2015 8:11 PM Author: swashbuckling magenta dragon potus Twist: this thread is almost a year old and I've since quit that miserable shitshow of a job. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#29089723) |
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Date: November 1st, 2015 8:41 PM Author: puce diverse box office hard finding a new job? ever miss the rigor of seeing how clause 7.6 interacted with 9.2? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#29089987) |
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Date: November 1st, 2015 8:53 PM Author: swashbuckling magenta dragon potus Never plan on finding a job again. I much prefer working for myself and now law isn't actually bad.
Nature of the assignment, brother. |
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Date: November 1st, 2015 9:02 PM Author: puce diverse box office awesome.
i am abandoning biglaw after get bonus this year. glad to hear there is hope |
Date: December 2nd, 2014 1:10 PM Author: violet meetinghouse legend ask him why he made the typo? phrase it "as my mentor, sir, what was the strategy behind that typo? more billables? keep em guessing?" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26842231) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 1:28 PM Author: Magical trip pit mediation 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26842343) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 1:37 PM Author: insane shivering bawdyhouse prole (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26842383) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 1:54 PM Author: swashbuckling magenta dragon potus 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26842462) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 2:00 PM Author: frisky theater stage brethren (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26842483) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 5:59 PM Author: Odious brass famous landscape painting (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26843857) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 1:11 PM Author: buff roast beef (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26842233) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 1:11 PM Author: Bronze Rebellious Kitty Cat Senate Worst part of law is that eventually you take the partner's side in this. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26842234) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 1:13 PM Author: swashbuckling magenta dragon potus I'm looking for a job outside of law come the new year (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26842243) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 5:59 PM Author: Odious brass famous landscape painting fuck, true (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26843859) |
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Date: December 5th, 2014 9:59 PM Author: jet-lagged irradiated idea he suggested this is deep (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26868096) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 1:31 PM Author: wonderful goyim nibblets Stop fucking up and whining about your hours (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26842354) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 1:53 PM Author: swashbuckling magenta dragon potus (Future partner) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26842460) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 1:53 PM Author: swashbuckling magenta dragon potus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26842454) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 1:59 PM Author: low-t aromatic reading party your pumo looks like a puddle that has eyes. I call you garbage monster pumo in my head and occasionally mouthed silently (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26842479) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 2:07 PM Author: swashbuckling magenta dragon potus Feeeed me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26842512) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 5:43 PM Author: pea-brained ocher pocket flask stage LOL (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26843770) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 5:59 PM Author: Odious brass famous landscape painting (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26843860) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 2:12 PM Author: Floppy disrespectful parlor pozpig You're on thin ice, mister (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26842542) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 2:15 PM Author: swashbuckling magenta dragon potus I hope. Would love to cop severance. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26842555) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 2:17 PM Author: Floppy disrespectful parlor pozpig Better at least come up with a death in the family explanation fast so they don't can you for outright incompetence and report you to the ABA (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26842563) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 2:54 PM Author: Marvelous Theater Goal In Life The client is paying your biglaw hourly rate for secretarial work and you don't see the problem with that work containing errors? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26842790) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 5:10 PM Author: swashbuckling magenta dragon potus No because the client should just hire a secretary.
It's worse that they pay partner rates and get typos. |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 5:42 PM Author: Marvelous Theater Goal In Life You're a junior level associate, right? 1/3 of the revenue that you generate for the firm is based on glorified secretarial work (editing documents, fixing section references, organizing exhibits, etc.). You have to be able to do that stuff without making mistakes. If the client would just "hire a secretary" to do that work, you wouldn't have anything to do. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26843757) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 5:44 PM Author: swashbuckling magenta dragon potus Lol at this broken fucking profession. You can dedicate your life to chasing commas at midnight. I'm going to do something enjoyable. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26843783) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 5:51 PM Author: Marvelous Theater Goal In Life Good idea. If getting bitched at a little bit by a partner for fucking up a cross reference bothered you this much, you've gotta get the hell out of biglaw. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26843831) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 5:46 PM Author: federal house You guys must have had much better secretaries than I did because none of mine could book a travel reservation, much less figure out how to check cross references in an SPA (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26843789) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 5:52 PM Author: Marvelous Theater Goal In Life 3 out of 4 of my biglaw secretaries were awesome. One sucked. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26843833) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 5:57 PM Author: Sepia trailer park Opposite ratio here. 1 of 4 was good, but the partner monopolized her with all kinds of personal business that his stay-at-home-wife apparently couldn't be bothered with, plus he likes to boss people around. I don't trust mine to do anything other than handle FedEx labels and to get me numbered tabs. Word Processing runs my changes, and I interface with Office Services directly for print jobs (or increasingly try to get juniors to do it).
I'm at this weird place where I increasingly don't give a shit because of how little much of what I do matters, but also trust people less and less. |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 6:02 PM Author: Marvelous Theater Goal In Life I was very lucky. A great secretary makes biglaw life so much better. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26843867) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 6:03 PM Author: Odious brass famous landscape painting Mine was shitty but she covered for me. So I covered for her and did my own documents. Sort of a win win for billables. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26843877) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 6:00 PM Author: Odious brass famous landscape painting So are you in charge of the J Shad schtick now? This is great stuff. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26843863) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2014 8:14 PM Author: Racy pearly coldplay fan That is the worst part of law. Partners don't hold themselves to their own standards. I used to work for a typo screamer. Every time there was a typo he'd come in and get red in the face and yell at people and say it was unacceptable and give you this whole lecture. Then you would look at his work and he would have typos, every single time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26844610) |
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Date: December 5th, 2014 9:55 PM Author: Concupiscible ultramarine stag film hunting ground Obviously dickish behavior, but I don't think it's unreasonable for a partner to expect an associate to focus more on detail than the partner does himself. I've worked with one or two partners who clearly think that's how it should work, and it can be fine so long as their not dicks, though you also have to be careful to keep their trust. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26868079) |
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Date: December 5th, 2014 9:57 PM Author: Racy pearly coldplay fan Um, no, that's not how it should work. If the partner is going to send out sloppy shit to the client, the associates should be able to as well. You shouldn't demand a higher quality level of work from your subordinates than you do yourself. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26868090) |
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Date: December 5th, 2014 10:16 PM Author: Concupiscible ultramarine stag film hunting ground That's fair, assuming we're talking about similar types of work product. But there can be a uniform standard for quality that still involves delegation of most of the details to associates (e.g., the partner can give an associate a rough markup/draft with an expectation that the associate will catch drafting errors/typos). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26868167) |
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Date: November 1st, 2015 8:09 PM Author: brilliant mother why should give anyone give a fuck about typos, really? they don't affect the meaning of a document (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#29089709) |
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Date: December 5th, 2014 10:00 PM Author: Bright Duck-like Nursing Home lol@"keep their trust"
kill yourself now; you've already lost |
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Date: December 5th, 2014 10:11 PM Author: Concupiscible ultramarine stag film hunting ground My experience has been that those types of partners basically deploy spot checking. If they don't find reason to doubt that you are on top of everything, they feel more comfortable letting you spot issues/handle substantive stuff. But if they find a couple errors, they freak out because they haven't been paying attention. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#26868143) |
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Date: November 1st, 2015 8:00 PM Author: galvanic transparent genital piercing I just started a biglaw job a month ago. On two separate occasions I've corrected the partner who hired me when he started criticizing me for shit I didn't do. We traveled across the country last week and I was booked at the wrong hotel and had to fix it after we already got out there. He started laying into me about how I need to check with his secretary about where we're staying. After talking to my secretary I learned partner was at the first hotel until a few days ago and changed it without saying anything. He mentioned this shit a second time and I said "actually my secretary did check with yours. You were staying at that hotel until s couple days ago and nobody said anything to me." This was in front of another partner and there was a good 45 second awkward silence. I'll probably be fired within a year. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#29089643) |
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Date: November 1st, 2015 8:40 PM Author: puce diverse box office please continue to post these as time goes on (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#29089983) |
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Date: November 1st, 2015 8:44 PM Author: buff roast beef (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#29090008) |
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Date: November 1st, 2015 8:59 PM Author: galvanic transparent genital piercing I'm only acting like this because I can go back to my old firm in a second. This seems like the only way to do biglaw. So far I haven't stressed about shit and I'm just being myself because I don't give a fuck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#29090116) |
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Date: November 1st, 2015 8:50 PM Author: flushed lettuce why take this personally? cash the checks and move on. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2744910&forum_id=2/#29090043) |