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biglaw attorneys: can you keep alcohol openly displayed in decanter at office?

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Histrionic Awkward Field Alpha
  01/20/18
Uhhhhhhh I’ve had a bottle of jack on my bookshelf for the p...
Offensive Trip Ladyboy
  01/20/18
How often are people in/out of your space?
Histrionic Awkward Field Alpha
  01/20/18
I am located on a well traversed part of the office
Offensive Trip Ladyboy
  01/20/18
handicapped shitter?
coral fragrant water buffalo
  01/20/18
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Offensive Trip Ladyboy
  01/20/18
only if you're "partner"
flushed sandwich pisswyrm
  01/20/18
no but in court you can wear those helmets with beer cans on...
coral fragrant water buffalo
  01/20/18
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Vibrant generalized bond indirect expression
  01/20/18
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flushed sandwich pisswyrm
  01/20/18
Guy who thinks biglawyers see a courtroom
vivacious menage
  01/20/18
why would you
lemon provocative dysfunction sanctuary
  01/20/18
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Sooty sweet tailpipe telephone
  01/21/18
Our firm has an express policy that you're only allowed to c...
Contagious national codepig
  01/20/18
everybody keeps a bottle of beam and dixie cups in their bot...
coral fragrant water buffalo
  01/20/18
OP wasn't asking about sneaking booze - he was asking about ...
Contagious national codepig
  01/20/18
you don't have empties from the craft beer place pyramaided ...
coral fragrant water buffalo
  01/20/18
I don't think anyone would mind
Crimson shrine roast beef
  01/20/18
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Histrionic Awkward Field Alpha
  01/20/18
It is going to be pretentious as fuck if you have a bottle o...
Contagious national codepig
  01/20/18
that's what i figured. how often do people day (or evening) ...
Histrionic Awkward Field Alpha
  01/20/18
lol
emerald house-broken elastic band space
  01/21/18
Oh Jesus, don't do this
Crimson shrine roast beef
  01/20/18
i'm a lawyer-dentist-general, ret.
coral fragrant water buffalo
  01/20/18
I used to start drinking at 3pm in biglaw when the adderal w...
vivacious menage
  01/20/18
just do the coke like a real lawyer.
coral fragrant water buffalo
  01/20/18
Coke when leaving the office to manufacture some euphoria. I...
vivacious menage
  01/20/18
everytime a door slams shut you think it's the cops called t...
coral fragrant water buffalo
  01/20/18
Can barely jerk off (still jerk off for 4 hrs and wonderment...
vivacious menage
  01/20/18
i know it's time to go on a coke hiatus when my cock bleeds ...
coral fragrant water buffalo
  01/20/18
When I was fedclerking I got talked to by the Clerk of the C...
Glittery rigpig
  01/20/18
yeah like how 7/11 has signs "no consuming beer within ...
coral fragrant water buffalo
  01/20/18
Yeah pretty much. I was genuinely surprised at how gay they...
Glittery rigpig
  01/20/18
surprised your judge was OK w/ it. my interaction w/ him was...
Histrionic Awkward Field Alpha
  01/20/18
Everyone in my office has these. It’s nbd.
Supple skinny woman mother
  01/20/18
I kept the bottles hidden, but did keep a bottle of single m...
razzle-dazzle translucent mental disorder
  01/21/18
I had a nice bottle of scotch from a vendor that I left on a...
costumed beady-eyed station coffee pot
  01/21/18
? It’s obligatory.
Shaky Alcoholic Den
  01/21/18
Most of the associates in my office bring a case of Keystone...
Startled maniacal gaming laptop
  01/21/18
Pretty common for associates to have a bottle of scotch in t...
bearded mahogany ape
  01/21/18
Kept a bottle of bourbon on bookshelf as a mid-level associa...
opaque appetizing pervert
  01/21/18
Have only seen an occasional partner with liquor in their of...
Dashing alcoholic theater
  01/21/18
Nobody gives a shit and everybody is an alcoholic. Have you ...
maize location
  01/22/18


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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:15 PM
Author: Histrionic Awkward Field Alpha



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35198993)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:50 PM
Author: Offensive Trip Ladyboy

Uhhhhhhh I’ve had a bottle of jack on my bookshelf for the past couple years and haven’t talked to HR yet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199210)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:55 PM
Author: Histrionic Awkward Field Alpha

How often are people in/out of your space?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199246)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:56 PM
Author: Offensive Trip Ladyboy

I am located on a well traversed part of the office

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199267)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:57 PM
Author: coral fragrant water buffalo

handicapped shitter?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199271)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:57 PM
Author: Offensive Trip Ladyboy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199272)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:50 PM
Author: flushed sandwich pisswyrm

only if you're "partner"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199212)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:51 PM
Author: coral fragrant water buffalo

no but in court you can wear those helmets with beer cans on the side.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199219)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:52 PM
Author: Vibrant generalized bond indirect expression



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199226)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:56 PM
Author: flushed sandwich pisswyrm



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199266)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:59 PM
Author: vivacious menage

Guy who thinks biglawyers see a courtroom

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199283)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:51 PM
Author: lemon provocative dysfunction sanctuary

why would you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199223)



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Date: January 21st, 2018 10:28 AM
Author: Sooty sweet tailpipe telephone



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:53 PM
Author: Contagious national codepig

Our firm has an express policy that you're only allowed to consume firm-provided alcohol in the office (e.g. attorney happy hours and other firm functions). Nevertheless, there is a partner on my floor with a bar cart with a variety of liquors, etc. I've never seen an associate or counsel do anything more than have an unopened bottle of wine on their desk from a xmas gift they haven't taken home yet.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199235)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:54 PM
Author: coral fragrant water buffalo

everybody keeps a bottle of beam and dixie cups in their bottom drawer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199240)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:55 PM
Author: Contagious national codepig

OP wasn't asking about sneaking booze - he was asking about open displays

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199250)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:56 PM
Author: coral fragrant water buffalo

you don't have empties from the craft beer place pyramaided over your bookshelf?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199262)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:56 PM
Author: Crimson shrine roast beef

I don't think anyone would mind

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199257)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:58 PM
Author: Histrionic Awkward Field Alpha



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199276)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:00 PM
Author: Contagious national codepig

It is going to be pretentious as fuck if you have a bottle of scotch sitting in a decanter on display. Don't be that guy. If you really want to have a snort now and then, just keep a bottle in your desk.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199290)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:06 PM
Author: Histrionic Awkward Field Alpha

that's what i figured. how often do people day (or evening) drink in biglaw?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199339)



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Date: January 21st, 2018 11:13 AM
Author: emerald house-broken elastic band space

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35202313)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:01 PM
Author: Crimson shrine roast beef

Oh Jesus, don't do this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199295)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:01 PM
Author: coral fragrant water buffalo

i'm a lawyer-dentist-general, ret.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199299)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:00 PM
Author: vivacious menage

I used to start drinking at 3pm in biglaw when the adderal was wearing off. Would be tabled by 7pm bad keep working through dinner.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199293)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:01 PM
Author: coral fragrant water buffalo

just do the coke like a real lawyer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199296)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:03 PM
Author: vivacious menage

Coke when leaving the office to manufacture some euphoria. It’s too inconsistent and euphoric to deal with the horror of 19 biglaw emails coming in a minute while simultaneously turning a partners illegible edits to a motion 1 hr beforehand it needs to be filed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199308)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:05 PM
Author: coral fragrant water buffalo

everytime a door slams shut you think it's the cops called to make an example of you by some service partner. your jaw clenches, you can barely jerk off, grabbing your glock tightly to go out in a blaze of glory.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199322)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:06 PM
Author: vivacious menage

Can barely jerk off (still jerk off for 4 hrs and wonderment where the time went) jfc I don’t miss biglaw, or adderal. Miss coke a little.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199337)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:08 PM
Author: coral fragrant water buffalo

i know it's time to go on a coke hiatus when my cock bleeds and peels like a baby snake upgrading.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199349)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:03 PM
Author: Glittery rigpig

When I was fedclerking I got talked to by the Clerk of the Court personally about a fucking bottle of cheap glenfiddich that I happened to leave out on my desk after working late one night. They told my judge and everything, but he didn't care and I actually think it helped me with him long term.

But anyway, just so you know: there are apparently federal regs that prohibit the consumption of alcohol on premises.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199305)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:03 PM
Author: coral fragrant water buffalo

yeah like how 7/11 has signs "no consuming beer within 500 feet."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199314)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:05 PM
Author: Glittery rigpig

Yeah pretty much. I was genuinely surprised at how gay they were about it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199324)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:24 PM
Author: Histrionic Awkward Field Alpha

surprised your judge was OK w/ it. my interaction w/ him was negative (we've talked about this elsewhere iirc)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199469)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:42 PM
Author: Supple skinny woman mother

Everyone in my office has these. It’s nbd.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199599)



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Date: January 21st, 2018 10:13 AM
Author: razzle-dazzle translucent mental disorder

I kept the bottles hidden, but did keep a bottle of single malt in its canister displayed for a number of years (gift from client)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35202010)



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Date: January 21st, 2018 10:18 AM
Author: costumed beady-eyed station coffee pot

I had a nice bottle of scotch from a vendor that I left on an office shelf. Nbd

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35202021)



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Date: January 21st, 2018 10:26 AM
Author: Shaky Alcoholic Den

? It’s obligatory.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35202055)



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Date: January 21st, 2018 10:59 AM
Author: Startled maniacal gaming laptop

Most of the associates in my office bring a case of Keystone light and a Yeti cooler to work on Fridays. Partners don't like it but they deal with it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35202231)



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Date: January 21st, 2018 11:08 AM
Author: bearded mahogany ape

Pretty common for associates to have a bottle of scotch in the desk, usually broken out for a late night drink with fellow associates or a "chill" junior partner after finishing some big task (I'm a litigator, so usually filing a big brief at midnight or something like that). Don't know anyone with openly displayed alcohol though except for one older partner. Would be weird at my firm for a junior associate to have a bottle on the shelf like some kind of college dorm shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35202283)



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Date: January 21st, 2018 11:11 AM
Author: opaque appetizing pervert

Kept a bottle of bourbon on bookshelf as a mid-level associate. Partners would high five when they noticed it got drained because that meant we were in there late at some point. In current form probably half of the offices have a bottle of liquor out in the open

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35202300)



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Date: January 21st, 2018 11:45 PM
Author: Dashing alcoholic theater

Have only seen an occasional partner with liquor in their office.

One rainmaker used to get sloshed daily but he brought in so much business no one cared.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35207179)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 2:04 AM
Author: maize location

Nobody gives a shit and everybody is an alcoholic. Have you ever stayed too late at a biglaw Christmas party?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35207623)