The most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world.
|
 |
 
|
What was the shittiest year of your life?
| cheese-eating halford | 01/28/26 |
| Awkward Mildly Autistic Step-uncle's House Gunner | 01/28/26 |
| Contagious idea he suggested newt | 01/28/26 |
| Insanely Creepy Tan Gay Wizard | 01/28/26 |
| federal gaming laptop | 01/28/26 |
| slimy yellow french chef | 01/28/26 |
| Hairless School | 01/28/26 |
| mind-boggling meetinghouse | 01/28/26 |
| Bearded mood codepig | 01/28/26 |
| canary splenetic bbw parlor | 02/01/26 |
| Violent Ticket Booth | 01/28/26 |
| slimy yellow french chef | 01/28/26 |
| cheese-eating halford | 01/28/26 |
| excitant crackhouse twinkling uncleanness | 01/28/26 |
| cheese-eating halford | 01/28/26 |
| slimy yellow french chef | 01/28/26 |
| Contagious idea he suggested newt | 01/28/26 |
| Henna Apoplectic Telephone | 01/28/26 |
| cheese-eating halford | 01/28/26 |
| arousing fat ankles police squad | 01/28/26 |
| cheese-eating halford | 01/28/26 |
| violent hospital | 01/28/26 |
| cheese-eating halford | 01/28/26 |
| Maroon Public Bath | 01/28/26 |
| Hairraiser impressive area | 01/28/26 |
| cheese-eating halford | 01/28/26 |
| comical magenta stead | 01/28/26 |
| cheese-eating halford | 01/28/26 |
| comical magenta stead | 01/28/26 |
| Bearded mood codepig | 01/28/26 |
| comical magenta stead | 01/28/26 |
| Bearded mood codepig | 01/28/26 |
| comical magenta stead | 01/28/26 |
| Bearded mood codepig | 01/28/26 |
| comical magenta stead | 01/28/26 |
| cheese-eating halford | 01/28/26 |
| Hairless School | 01/28/26 |
| lascivious stage sneaky criminal | 01/28/26 |
| comical magenta stead | 01/28/26 |
| lascivious stage sneaky criminal | 01/28/26 |
| bateful flickering orchestra pit | 01/28/26 |
| gaped main people stain | 01/28/26 |
| Vibrant iridescent juggernaut | 01/28/26 |
| bateful flickering orchestra pit | 01/28/26 |
| arousing fat ankles police squad | 01/28/26 |
| Vibrant iridescent juggernaut | 01/28/26 |
| gaped main people stain | 01/28/26 |
| arousing fat ankles police squad | 01/28/26 |
| Vibrant iridescent juggernaut | 01/28/26 |
| gaped main people stain | 02/01/26 |
| gaped main people stain | 01/28/26 |
| drab exciting theater stage | 01/28/26 |
| Vibrant iridescent juggernaut | 01/28/26 |
| nubile fantasy-prone parlour regret | 02/01/26 |
| Unholy trust fund | 01/28/26 |
| arousing fat ankles police squad | 01/28/26 |
| Misanthropic lime dragon | 01/28/26 |
| Odious Circlehead | 01/28/26 |
| Gay aphrodisiac locale | 01/28/26 |
Poast new message in this thread
Date: January 28th, 2026 10:59 AM Author: cheese-eating halford (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626378) |
Date: January 28th, 2026 10:59 AM Author: Awkward Mildly Autistic Step-uncle's House Gunner The year after graduating law school when I realized practicing law was torture and I was sentenced to life. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626382) |
 |
Date: January 28th, 2026 4:58 PM Author: Contagious idea he suggested newt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49627484) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 11:15 AM Author: Insanely Creepy Tan Gay Wizard Off the top of my head, 2025 wasn't great and is certainly in the running (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626414) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 11:16 AM Author: federal gaming laptop 2007 (freshman/soph year of college) was probably both the best and the worst. Mom dropped dead of pancreatic cancer and met most of the people who I'd now consider my friends, had a lot of fun doing college shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626416) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 11:19 AM Author: slimy yellow french chef (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626424) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 4:43 PM Author: Hairless School (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49627416) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 7:56 PM Author: mind-boggling meetinghouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628645) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 11:57 AM Author: Bearded mood codepig 2008? Was working $50K insurance defense law living in my parents basement while most of my Ls classmates had Biglaw and my local HS friends were well into their careers and I got dumped by my LS GF. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626484) |
|
Date: February 1st, 2026 4:56 PM Author: canary splenetic bbw parlor How’s life now (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49639234) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 12:01 PM Author: Violent Ticket Booth every year is the shittiest year of my life so far (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626491) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 12:06 PM Author: slimy yellow french chef (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626492) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 12:08 PM Author: cheese-eating halford (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626494) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 1:47 PM Author: excitant crackhouse twinkling uncleanness (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626854) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 4:56 PM Author: cheese-eating halford (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49627478) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 5:08 PM Author: slimy yellow french chef (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49627529) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 5:00 PM Author: Contagious idea he suggested newt wow, thats messed up (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49627490) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 5:12 PM Author: Henna Apoplectic Telephone (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49627541) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 5:31 PM Author: cheese-eating halford (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49627659) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 7:56 PM Author: arousing fat ankles police squad Already underrated (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628644) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 8:09 PM Author: cheese-eating halford (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628693) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 8:12 PM Author: violent hospital (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628698) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 8:12 PM Author: cheese-eating halford (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628700) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 5:32 PM Author: Maroon Public Bath tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49627673) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 12:15 PM Author: Hairraiser impressive area thinking about this just made me realize how many shitty years i’ve had in my adult life, how shit my shit life has been, lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626514) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 12:34 PM Author: cheese-eating halford many poeple are saying this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626570) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 12:25 PM Author: comical magenta stead 2006. graduated ls after not trying at all and not paying attention to how firms worked. i just went to ls because i had nothing better to do and i didn't try. i wrote on to law review but otherwise didn't try to get good grades.
realized how fucked i was after i graduated. bounced around between temp jobs at ID firms, i couldn;'t even get an ID job. i finally got one and the guy paid me $25 per BILLED hour and i was a contractor. i really thought i was life pwnd.
unbelievable that i eventually worked my way up to biglaw from that. but yeah, 2006-2007, either of those years could easily be the worst. by far. |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 12:32 PM Author: cheese-eating halford 2006-2008 was really fucking awful for me in retrospect now that i think about, cant beleive i didnt kms honestly (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626561) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 12:38 PM Author: comical magenta stead ITE is indirectly the reason i wound up in biglaw.
in late 2007 i got a job with a solo who did L&E (primarily traditional labor) and happened to take to it. in 2009, we hired a law clerk who was a 2L who'd gotten an offer from a regional bmore firm but the offer was rescinded bc of ITE.
he worked for us a few months and we kept in touch. he wound up at a baltimore firm called miles & stockbridge - basically, regional midlaw. the solo had to lay me off bc he lost a big client at the end of 2011 and the law clerk got me in at miles. i went from there to jackson lewis (ttt L&E firm), and from there to baker hostetler, where i wound up making partner. |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 2:05 PM Author: Bearded mood codepig Isn’t J&L well known and well thought of in their own sphere? It’s not true Milbank scale Biglaw but it’s not Lewis Brisbois either. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626916) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 8:26 PM Author: comical magenta stead it is a solid L&E firm. the problem with it is the lawyers are hit and miss. some are really good like me, but some are borderline retarded.
they pay first years in NYC, DC, etc like 120k lol. what do you expect at that salary. |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 12:32 PM Author: Bearded mood codepig Was in essentially the same spot. It’s a miracle dude we weren’t perma fucked. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626562) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 12:33 PM Author: comical magenta stead cr. did you make it to biglaw? i wound up at baker hostetler, which is a shitty biglaw firm, but it's amazing i even made it there given that i was in literal shitlaw for a couple years. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626564) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 1:47 PM Author: Bearded mood codepig Eventually. Big break was an in-house job at a F50 that an adjunct professor I emailed recommended me for. Made contacts and got skills there and eventually did 5 years as a counsel/NEP at a lower tier V100 before going back in-house (at a fund now).
Not sure what the path is without that initial break. Definitely threw as much work as i could to the adjunct professor (who was a V20 Biglaw partner). |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 1:50 PM Author: comical magenta stead 180, we beat the odds (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626860) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 12:33 PM Author: cheese-eating halford and then boom ITE, lol fuckin a (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626565) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 4:43 PM Author: Hairless School (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49627415) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 4:45 PM Author: lascivious stage sneaky criminal "oh. so you were just a loser then."
*gary chuckles* |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 5:25 PM Author: comical magenta stead (never worked at a biglaw firm) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49627623) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 5:31 PM Author: lascivious stage sneaky criminal regional large midlaw!!! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49627658) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 1:31 PM Author: bateful flickering orchestra pit 2023 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626775) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 4:44 PM Author: gaped main people stain 2011-2012. My whole biglaw setup exploded during ITE and I had to do a hard reset. Doing the hard reset was difficult but I was ok with hard work. There was a relatively short period when it seemed like it wasn't going to work. I had sent several thousand job apps (!!!) and never closed the deal. Then I did and things were fine. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49627418) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 5:03 PM Author: Vibrant iridescent juggernaut Who was that hilarious doc review poaster circa 2010 about not being allowed 2 slices of pizza for work lunch etc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49627499) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 5:44 PM Author: bateful flickering orchestra pit Slackfist Cumdumpster (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49627750) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 7:58 PM Author: arousing fat ankles police squad Those were some great threads. Any bort historians able to link them? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628650) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 8:15 PM Author: Vibrant iridescent juggernaut Skadden Farts
https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1905801&mc=187&forum_id=2#20278379 |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 8:15 PM Author: gaped main people stain (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628712) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 8:21 PM Author: arousing fat ankles police squad 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628729) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 8:25 PM Author: Vibrant iridescent juggernaut i remember reading those for the first time. I had been out of law school like 10 months and quit my first job to start my solo firm. I was lying in bed (at my dad's house) reading those and was just like I have to fucking succeed at this or I'm going to kill myself working doc review (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628752) |
|
Date: February 1st, 2026 6:27 PM Author: gaped main people stain I was having a rough time then and those scared the shit out of me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49639487) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 8:15 PM Author: gaped main people stain LMAO, no things weren't that bad for me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628709) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 5:31 PM Author: drab exciting theater stage 2024 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49627669) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 7:55 PM Author: Vibrant iridescent juggernaut 2013 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628643) |
|
Date: February 1st, 2026 6:49 PM Author: nubile fantasy-prone parlour regret (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49639551) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 8:01 PM Author: Unholy trust fund (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628663) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 8:18 PM Author: arousing fat ankles police squad 2012. Grandpa died. Friend killed self. Started shitlaw firm 3 years into marriage and made like 15k all year, which did not go over well and was very embarrassing.
My dog turned 2 that year and was the only thing that kept me from abject despair. He'll be 16 this year and I would murder innumerable people to give him more life. |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 8:20 PM Author: Misanthropic lime dragon 2024-ongoing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628724) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 8:33 PM Author: Odious Circlehead 2025 for sure. Wife caught me cheating and it was a huge thing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628818) |
|
Date: January 28th, 2026 8:34 PM Author: Gay aphrodisiac locale Mom was diagnosed with super aggressive cancer and died about 8 weeks later. Went through a break up at the same time. Had a lot of support from family n friends but was by far the worst. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628832) |