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What are the top worst things about biglaw?

1. Constant fire drills - almost heart attack inducing 2. T...
claret voyeur
  04/09/18
The pointlessness of the work is way worse than the hours
arousing carmine blood rage
  04/09/18
The work is also terrible, but I'm not sure it's top 3
claret voyeur
  04/09/18
flame. all corporate america work is pointless.
mentally impaired ticket booth
  04/09/18
really just #3 and unpredictability is the real problem
gaped anal range
  04/09/18
yeah, i guess that's related to the constant fire drill assi...
claret voyeur
  04/09/18
I still wouldn’t want to review credit agreements and do che...
arousing carmine blood rage
  04/09/18
yeah, but it wouldn't be nearly as bad if it were 9 to 5 pro...
claret voyeur
  04/09/18
turning cogs in a factory wasn't fun either, but OK if you w...
gaped anal range
  04/09/18
True. What were the hours like in those factories? I woul...
arousing carmine blood rage
  04/09/18
there was a nice little period where the factory was a relat...
gaped anal range
  04/09/18
not to mention, you probably got to chit chat and socialize ...
claret voyeur
  04/09/18
The hours, work, co-workers, bosses, atmosphere and unpredic...
buck-toothed house-broken address deer antler
  04/09/18
lmao
claret voyeur
  04/09/18
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chartreuse patrolman nibblets
  04/09/18
The drip drip drip of steady emails at all hours of the day ...
stirring mustard sneaky criminal famous landscape painting
  04/09/18
a partner told me once that he had 30,000 unread emails...
claret voyeur
  04/09/18
Add another thing to the list... the small talk in biglaw, t...
arousing carmine blood rage
  04/09/18
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shimmering glittery jewess
  04/09/18
Wtf those are 180 conversations
stirring mustard sneaky criminal famous landscape painting
  04/09/18
alpha.
stirring mustard sneaky criminal famous landscape painting
  04/09/18
he was a nice, older rainmaker senior partner - the type tha...
claret voyeur
  04/09/18
I have at least 20,000 unread emails
Dull Razzmatazz Plaza Brethren
  04/10/18
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plum location
  04/10/18
In theory, it shouldn't matter whether the work you're doing...
wonderful amethyst cuckold prole
  04/09/18
When you have a wife and kids you'll understand. Hehe.
stirring mustard sneaky criminal famous landscape painting
  04/09/18
And the worst part is 90% of deadlines are fake
claret voyeur
  04/09/18
Yup. There should be very few "emergencies" requir...
Charcoal Karate Messiness
  04/10/18
180
Concupiscible Sanctuary
  04/09/18
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Violent indecent double fault goyim
  04/09/18
I mentioned this concept in another thread, but: There's no ...
wonderful amethyst cuckold prole
  04/09/18
Who do you think is going to call you on it if you start wea...
stirring mustard sneaky criminal famous landscape painting
  04/09/18
The other Jews? They would have follow-up questions that I'...
wonderful amethyst cuckold prole
  04/09/18
Do you think ze Jews will descend on you and give you a Jew ...
stirring mustard sneaky criminal famous landscape painting
  04/09/18
and goyim question who is god's chosen people. rofl.
mentally impaired ticket booth
  04/09/18
So, under this theory, you can tell who god's chosen people ...
wonderful amethyst cuckold prole
  04/09/18
yes, god willed it that way.
mentally impaired ticket booth
  04/09/18
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stirring mustard sneaky criminal famous landscape painting
  04/09/18
Have Christians ever taken Sunday off?
arousing carmine blood rage
  04/09/18
I am 100% sure that anybody who tried the same shit Jews do ...
wonderful amethyst cuckold prole
  04/09/18
I worked through Christmas this past year. Was 120 AF.
stirring mustard sneaky criminal famous landscape painting
  04/09/18
Would be interesting to see someone try. I know someone who ...
arousing carmine blood rage
  04/09/18
Hope he was offline doing lateral interviews.
stirring mustard sneaky criminal famous landscape painting
  04/09/18
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claret voyeur
  04/09/18
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shimmering glittery jewess
  04/09/18
I have never, EVER, worked on Thanksgiving or Christmas. I r...
Twinkling trump supporter
  04/09/18
Are you generally considered a good associate
arousing carmine blood rage
  04/09/18
I am considered a good lawyer, but I'm not an insane person.
Twinkling trump supporter
  04/09/18
Same on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Again, absolutely no rea...
Charcoal Karate Messiness
  04/10/18
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chocolate aromatic national security agency
  04/12/18
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chocolate aromatic national security agency
  04/12/18
i knew a sunday observer person. not sure what denomination...
White Domesticated Brunch Love Of Her Life
  04/09/18
Easily the pointlessness of the work. The principals general...
Cyan beady-eyed theatre mad-dog skullcap
  04/09/18
If you just signed the SPA the buyer served up, you are guar...
White Domesticated Brunch Love Of Her Life
  04/09/18
True, but the point is that fixing that SPA is worth a negli...
arousing carmine blood rage
  04/09/18
eh not necessarily relative to the costs (in time and money)...
Cyan beady-eyed theatre mad-dog skullcap
  04/09/18
yet the brilliant businessmen you're talking about continue ...
gaped anal range
  04/09/18
literally every part of the m&a process is retardedly to...
Cyan beady-eyed theatre mad-dog skullcap
  04/09/18
I'd only agree if you could like reform the whole system or ...
White Domesticated Brunch Love Of Her Life
  04/09/18
It’s worse if you do finance. Then there’s always the risk t...
passionate cordovan native immigrant
  04/09/18
Kikes
Beta Rigor Liquid Oxygen
  04/09/18
1. That it never stops, ever. When was the last time--week...
Comical Mahogany Locus Antidepressant Drug
  04/09/18
At least you get to work from home... that would make it a l...
arousing carmine blood rage
  04/09/18
Yeah, it's huge. It would take a lot for me to give it up.
Comical Mahogany Locus Antidepressant Drug
  04/09/18
fun read
opaque depressive
  04/09/18
...
stirring mustard sneaky criminal famous landscape painting
  04/09/18
Very cr. You still in?
passionate cordovan native immigrant
  04/09/18
No, boutique now but similar work and similar QOL. Less big...
Comical Mahogany Locus Antidepressant Drug
  04/09/18
...
Violent indecent double fault goyim
  04/09/18
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plum location
  04/10/18
No real upside
jade crotch
  04/09/18
This. There is no point. You get paid the same no matter...
excitant persian
  04/09/18
What about people who write bar articles or reports or speak...
arousing carmine blood rage
  04/09/18
I suppose. I never worked with anyone like that.
excitant persian
  04/09/18
well said.
Comical Mahogany Locus Antidepressant Drug
  04/09/18
You are defeated, but you have no shame. You are stubborn, b...
jade crotch
  04/09/18
I’ve thought a lot about this recently as I’ve slowly reache...
passionate cordovan native immigrant
  04/09/18
Sorry, dude. Unfortunately sounds about right. The busin...
Comical Mahogany Locus Antidepressant Drug
  04/09/18
No need to have some sit down with new partners; just make a...
stirring mustard sneaky criminal famous landscape painting
  04/09/18
This is why making partner at a lockstep Firm is credited
arousing carmine blood rage
  04/09/18
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claret voyeur
  04/09/18
I don’t work for partners like this. When you get more senio...
Dull Razzmatazz Plaza Brethren
  04/10/18
jews
burgundy cracking turdskin new version
  04/09/18
the people. and of those, the people who think it's "n...
Salmon potus pozpig
  04/09/18
...
claret voyeur
  04/09/18
for 50% of biglawyers, at least, <><NO EXIT OPS>...
Bat-shit-crazy business firm
  04/10/18
Total lack of job security or promotion potential.
Dull Razzmatazz Plaza Brethren
  04/10/18
Non-law dood here. Isn't Biglaw what most people are strivin...
Pea-brained coffee pot
  04/10/18
Yes except that 98% will never reach partner.
Dull Razzmatazz Plaza Brethren
  04/10/18
can you let your foot off the gas a bit when you reach partn...
Pea-brained coffee pot
  04/10/18
No. You have to work 2X as hard as a new partner to bring in...
Dull Razzmatazz Plaza Brethren
  04/10/18
i thought it was like making tenure. LOL@me
Pea-brained coffee pot
  04/10/18
Imagine the soul crushing hours of banking, but less sexy an...
Canary mood
  04/10/18
L
Dull Razzmatazz Plaza Brethren
  04/10/18
What do you mean you only work a little bit?
arousing carmine blood rage
  04/10/18
...
Dull Razzmatazz Plaza Brethren
  04/10/18
U tranny or lit
arousing carmine blood rage
  04/10/18
Lit
Dull Razzmatazz Plaza Brethren
  04/10/18
Q for big lolyers: as someone smart enough to make it to big...
Canary mood
  04/10/18
Nah big law is chill
Dull Razzmatazz Plaza Brethren
  04/10/18
...
Canary mood
  04/10/18
...
contagious idiot senate
  04/10/18
Not the hours, it's the unpredictability! Yay!
contagious idiot senate
  04/10/18


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Date: April 9th, 2018 8:57 PM
Author: claret voyeur

1. Constant fire drills - almost heart attack inducing

2. The people - 50% of the people are just complete assholes and 90% are incompetent managers

3. Related to 1., but on-call 24/7

Honestly, the long hours wouldn't be that bad, but for the above

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802651)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 8:58 PM
Author: arousing carmine blood rage

The pointlessness of the work is way worse than the hours

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802655)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 8:58 PM
Author: claret voyeur

The work is also terrible, but I'm not sure it's top 3

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802660)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:12 PM
Author: mentally impaired ticket booth

flame. all corporate america work is pointless.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802763)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:02 PM
Author: gaped anal range

really just #3 and unpredictability is the real problem

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802683)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:03 PM
Author: claret voyeur

yeah, i guess that's related to the constant fire drill assignments too

that lifestyle is cardiac arrest inducing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802692)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:04 PM
Author: arousing carmine blood rage

I still wouldn’t want to review credit agreements and do checklist calls even if it were predictable

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802701)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:06 PM
Author: claret voyeur

yeah, but it wouldn't be nearly as bad if it were 9 to 5 probably

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802717)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:10 PM
Author: gaped anal range

turning cogs in a factory wasn't fun either, but OK if you walk out with a paycheck every friday and enjoy your freedom

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802748)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:14 PM
Author: arousing carmine blood rage

True. What were the hours like in those factories?

I would argue though if you’re a man, working in a factory is a lot more satisfying

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802772)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:18 PM
Author: gaped anal range

there was a nice little period where the factory was a relatively chill unionized 40hr job, in between the robber baron era and the GC era.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802812)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:19 PM
Author: claret voyeur

not to mention, you probably got to chit chat and socialize with coworkers while turning wheels or whatever. many jobs these days are very isolating and are mentally taxing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802818)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:04 PM
Author: buck-toothed house-broken address deer antler

The hours, work, co-workers, bosses, atmosphere and unpredictability.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802703)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:05 PM
Author: claret voyeur

lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802713)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 11:20 PM
Author: chartreuse patrolman nibblets



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:04 PM
Author: stirring mustard sneaky criminal famous landscape painting

The drip drip drip of steady emails at all hours of the day and night, ceaseless through the hours days months and years, most useless but any bit of the stillicide may be urgent and woe betide he who miss it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802705)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:05 PM
Author: claret voyeur

a partner told me once that he had 30,000 unread emails...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802709)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:06 PM
Author: arousing carmine blood rage

Add another thing to the list... the small talk in biglaw, talking about shit like how to organize your emails or the latest “haha these phones are so screwy”... so depressing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802723)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 10:00 PM
Author: shimmering glittery jewess



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803131)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 10:02 PM
Author: stirring mustard sneaky criminal famous landscape painting

Wtf those are 180 conversations

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803142)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:07 PM
Author: stirring mustard sneaky criminal famous landscape painting

alpha.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802729)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:09 PM
Author: claret voyeur

he was a nice, older rainmaker senior partner - the type that is super rare these days

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802741)



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Date: April 10th, 2018 8:45 PM
Author: Dull Razzmatazz Plaza Brethren

I have at least 20,000 unread emails

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35811510)



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Date: April 10th, 2018 8:56 PM
Author: plum location



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35811580)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:08 PM
Author: wonderful amethyst cuckold prole

In theory, it shouldn't matter whether the work you're doing is "necessary" so long as you're getting paid. But most people aren't wired that way and I couldn't get there no matter how much I tried to talk myself into it.

For example: It's one thing to be stuck in the office at midnight because a deal is happening. Hey, that's life. It's completely different when you're only in the office because a psychotic partner has manufactured a fake emergency based on some paranoid flight of fancy. You can see this with the 7.6/9.2 guy-- his fondest memories are all nighters. They're not all necessary all nighters. There's partners manufacturing all-nighters so they can make more fond memories. These people are crazy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802735)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:09 PM
Author: stirring mustard sneaky criminal famous landscape painting

When you have a wife and kids you'll understand. Hehe.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802740)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:10 PM
Author: claret voyeur

And the worst part is 90% of deadlines are fake

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802751)



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Date: April 10th, 2018 8:53 PM
Author: Charcoal Karate Messiness

Yup. There should be very few "emergencies" requiring work on Sundays -- hell the weekend.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35811561)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:13 PM
Author: Concupiscible Sanctuary

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802768)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 11:38 PM
Author: Violent indecent double fault goyim



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:11 PM
Author: wonderful amethyst cuckold prole

I mentioned this concept in another thread, but: There's no such thing as safe time off unless you're Jewish.

That is, the observant people are guaranteed to be out the door in time for sundown on Friday night and then the next 24 hours are theirs with no consequences. And they know well in advance when the holidays are and nobody expects them to be working on those days.

If I could be a pseudojew and get the same deal, then biglaw would be a million times better. Just, literally, give me the same days off with the same expectations.

If that's not possible-- if it would be infeasible to have too many people out at the same time-- then fine, guarantee me every Thursday night, Sunday during the day, and the same number of days Jews get. But no. Jewish days are literally sacred. For anybody else, getting safe time off is simply not possible.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802754)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:13 PM
Author: stirring mustard sneaky criminal famous landscape painting

Who do you think is going to call you on it if you start wearing a cap at work and say you converted?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802765)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:13 PM
Author: wonderful amethyst cuckold prole

The other Jews? They would have follow-up questions that I'm simply not prepared to answer. This is all in my past now as I've left biglaw, but if anybody could pull off the "fake Jew" scam I'd love to hear about it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802770)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:15 PM
Author: stirring mustard sneaky criminal famous landscape painting

Do you think ze Jews will descend on you and give you a Jew trivia quiz? Just read wikipedia articles and such, and for stuff you don't know explain you're a recent convert. then take all the holidays & the sabbath. Simple!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802777)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:13 PM
Author: mentally impaired ticket booth

and goyim question who is god's chosen people. rofl.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802771)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:14 PM
Author: wonderful amethyst cuckold prole

So, under this theory, you can tell who god's chosen people are by them caring about themselves and nobody else? If so, then yes the Jews are highly chosen.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802776)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:22 PM
Author: mentally impaired ticket booth

yes, god willed it that way.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802831)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:15 PM
Author: stirring mustard sneaky criminal famous landscape painting



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802779)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:15 PM
Author: arousing carmine blood rage

Have Christians ever taken Sunday off?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802778)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:16 PM
Author: wonderful amethyst cuckold prole

I am 100% sure that anybody who tried the same shit Jews do in the name of Jesus Christ would get shitcanned. Biglaw only cares about the Jewish religion. If the client needs a memo on Christmas, the goy are working on Christmas. This was a live issue whatever year it was that the tax code was going to change and clients were scrambling to get deals closed by Dec 31

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802792)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:17 PM
Author: stirring mustard sneaky criminal famous landscape painting

I worked through Christmas this past year. Was 120 AF.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802796)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:17 PM
Author: arousing carmine blood rage

Would be interesting to see someone try. I know someone who was “offline” this past Easter weekend

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802797)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:17 PM
Author: stirring mustard sneaky criminal famous landscape painting

Hope he was offline doing lateral interviews.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802806)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:18 PM
Author: claret voyeur



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Date: April 9th, 2018 10:02 PM
Author: shimmering glittery jewess



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803146)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 10:36 PM
Author: Twinkling trump supporter

I have never, EVER, worked on Thanksgiving or Christmas. I refuse to.

As to other days/holidays, honestly sometimes i will do a small amount of work so that my days flanking them aren't so overloaded. For example, I'd rather sometimes do 3 hours on a Sunday while I'm watching some TV as opposed to adding those hours on to an overloaded Saturday or Monday.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803445)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 10:37 PM
Author: arousing carmine blood rage

Are you generally considered a good associate

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803456)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 10:38 PM
Author: Twinkling trump supporter

I am considered a good lawyer, but I'm not an insane person.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803466)



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Date: April 10th, 2018 8:57 PM
Author: Charcoal Karate Messiness

Same on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Again, absolutely no reason to work those days. None. If you are forced to work on Christmas then somebody didn't plan well and you should not have to pay for that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35811589)



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Date: April 12th, 2018 9:53 AM
Author: chocolate aromatic national security agency



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Date: April 12th, 2018 9:53 AM
Author: chocolate aromatic national security agency



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Date: April 9th, 2018 11:16 PM
Author: White Domesticated Brunch Love Of Her Life

i knew a sunday observer person. not sure what denomination or if it was total BS.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803807)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:24 PM
Author: Cyan beady-eyed theatre mad-dog skullcap

Easily the pointlessness of the work. The principals generally don’t give a single fuck about the lawyers - legal fees are a mere cost of doing business that everyone dreams of eliminating someday. All of the important deal terms are put in the term sheet *precicely* so idiot lawyers don’t fuck them up.

Lawyers aren’t much worried about why some company is buying another one, why it’s paying a 30% premium and how the buyer expects to achieve interesting r&d cost savings. Ie, the stuff that actually matters. Nope. They’re too busy fighting like hell over “commercially reasonable” vs “reasonable” while everyone on both sides would just as soon have them all tossed off a bridge instead of further delaying their deal over stupid minutia.

The level of sacrifice relative to sheer pointlessness of the work is the worst part imo. Jfc I hate corporate lawyers lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35802842)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:52 PM
Author: White Domesticated Brunch Love Of Her Life

If you just signed the SPA the buyer served up, you are guaranteed to be screwed.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803074)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:55 PM
Author: arousing carmine blood rage

True, but the point is that fixing that SPA is worth a negligible amount to your client

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803092)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 9:59 PM
Author: Cyan beady-eyed theatre mad-dog skullcap

eh not necessarily relative to the costs (in time and money) of further negotiation and the expected value of different language. and if so it’s mostly because each side is overreaching solely to give each other more hours to bill shuffling paperwork back and forth.

i bet if you looked at the likelihood a provision is actually litigated and the costs of enforcement, the conclusion would be most fighting over paperwork is a laughable waste of time

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803119)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 10:05 PM
Author: gaped anal range

yet the brilliant businessmen you're talking about continue to do M&A deals the usual way instead of just handing over keys in exchange for a check at the closing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803179)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 10:11 PM
Author: Cyan beady-eyed theatre mad-dog skullcap

literally every part of the m&a process is retardedly too expensive and inefficient so it makes no sense to appeal to how things are lol. my hypothesis is that the principals don’t personally bear the cost of this clownishness so there’s no immediate need to change things.

and at any rate the various fees and wasted time are generally a drop in the bucket relative to the overall size of each deal. doesn’t mean they make sense or that most of corporate lawyer work isn’t stupid

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803217)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 11:19 PM
Author: White Domesticated Brunch Love Of Her Life

I'd only agree if you could like reform the whole system or something.

but if everyone else is lawyered up, you have to be too.

if everyone did handshake deals on both sides of the table, maybe you are right. but fewer deals would eventually get done because it wouldn't take long to see that sellers would screw buyers in the absence of diligence and contractual protections.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803833)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 10:36 PM
Author: passionate cordovan native immigrant

It’s worse if you do finance. Then there’s always the risk the company goes to shit and filed bankruptcy and then (and only then) is everyone nitpicking over the documents to try to find every little error or Grey area you might have left available. It’s miserably anxiety

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803436)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 10:03 PM
Author: Beta Rigor Liquid Oxygen

Kikes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803153)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 10:26 PM
Author: Comical Mahogany Locus Antidepressant Drug

1. That it never stops, ever. When was the last time--weekends included--when you woke up / got into work with nothing new in your inbox? Law school? It is constant. I haven't seen the bottom of my to-do list in years. There's stuff towards the bottom of it that I never got to for deals that I don't even remember. There is literally always something that you could be doing, and if you're at all conscientious, this wears on you.

2. The daily deadlines and near-constant emergencies. Much of this is caused by inefficient management, but when you start taking orders from clients directly, you often realize that lots of them are fucking nuts, too. Banks? Assholes. Anyone in finance? Asshole. Small company-side clients? The fucking worst -- everything is an emergency to them, even the most routine thing.

3. The uncertainty and inability to plan. E.g., the stress of wondering whether a deal will close the week before you go on vacation or the Monday that you're out. Can you celebrate your wife's birthday on the Wednesday that's her birthday or do you just send flowers and promise that you'll do it on Saturday?

4. The type of people who survive >10 years in big law firms are often unpleasant or become unpleasant over time. The ones who are good people are very popular and can be tough to get in with.

5. The ever-increasing admin bullshit. This only gets worse. Want to be pro bono chair? Doesn't matter -- enjoy. Want to hustle the associates with last names T-Z to make their annual "voluntary" contributions to Untied Way / food bank / other firm pet charity? Yeah, neither does anyone else -- have fun, it's your turn. Oh, you did it last year? Okay, we'll find someone else next year. (They won't.)

6. Working with or across from people who take pride in fucking others over, and play passive-aggressive games. It's a fucking typo or other simple mistake that anyone could have made -- get over yourself and don't email the entire working group about it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803349)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 10:32 PM
Author: arousing carmine blood rage

At least you get to work from home... that would make it a lot less depressing for me

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803402)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 10:45 PM
Author: Comical Mahogany Locus Antidepressant Drug

Yeah, it's huge. It would take a lot for me to give it up.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803527)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 10:33 PM
Author: opaque depressive

fun read

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803413)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 10:37 PM
Author: stirring mustard sneaky criminal famous landscape painting



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803453)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 10:37 PM
Author: passionate cordovan native immigrant

Very cr. You still in?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803458)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 10:44 PM
Author: Comical Mahogany Locus Antidepressant Drug

No, boutique now but similar work and similar QOL. Less big firm BS and I'm not worried about class year, whether I'm up or out, etc., and I know everyone in the firm so there aren't mysterious people in NY or Chicago sending me pissy emails about having a slow month, but smaller firms have their own issues like how a couple of big personalities / squeaky wheels can steer things.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803519)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 11:42 PM
Author: Violent indecent double fault goyim



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803978)



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Date: April 10th, 2018 8:58 PM
Author: plum location



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35811591)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 10:37 PM
Author: jade crotch

No real upside

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803450)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 10:58 PM
Author: excitant persian

This.

There is no point. You get paid the same no matter what you do, or you get fired. Your bonus is set by what some board at cravath or some other firm you don’t work at decides. No one cares that you are a good lawyer, creative thinker, good with clients. Yes some people make partner, but that’s rare and even if you do make it you still aren’t getting the upside the folks on the business side have. Every cent you make is earned. You’ll never get lucky with any upside. Never any security. You have never created anything, contributed to society in any meaningful way, can’t even say you created a product or made people’s lives better. And you know it wasn’t always like this - that this is a disturbed creation of GC.

The partners who are successful at this today are able to disconnect and just utilize their associates to churn churn churn. They are experts at pointless billing and emphasizing issues that’s don’t matter, and creating a paper trail disavowing any responsibilities for anything that might matter. Some are better people than others, but at the end of the day they need to not care in order to play the game. There is so much turnover that they can never feel close to anyone who works for them.

All corporate jobs suck but there is a reason why the system is set up to hire solely inexperienced but highly educated and socialized but uncreative and unaccomplished dependent strivers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803647)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 11:01 PM
Author: arousing carmine blood rage

What about people who write bar articles or reports or speak at conferences about the law? Seems like they have an argument thathey are at least improving legal policy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803676)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 11:05 PM
Author: excitant persian

I suppose.

I never worked with anyone like that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803712)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 11:04 PM
Author: Comical Mahogany Locus Antidepressant Drug

well said.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803704)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 11:18 PM
Author: jade crotch

You are defeated, but you have no shame. You are stubborn, but have no pride. You endure, but you have no courage.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803821)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 10:42 PM
Author: passionate cordovan native immigrant

I’ve thought a lot about this recently as I’ve slowly reached the point where my depression about work is becoming a daily thing. I think if I were given total autonomy over my deals I wouldn’t mind it as much. I work 2x as fast as the next associates, strive for efficiency over padding for unnecessary shit, and try to focus on business points with my clients.

However, unfortunately, that’s never going to be the way it works. Instead you have partners either pretending (or worse, actually thinking) mundane theoretical nonsense is important to run to ground. I genuinely believe when you make partner they sit you down and strongly encourage you to subtly influence to pad as much as possible. The worst thing though, is even if you get autonomy, it’s because a partner wants to be lazy as hell, and then come back after the deal is done and things have gone to shit, to second guess, question, or be outraged about why we did this or that with zero context whatsoever. It is insane.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803494)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 10:47 PM
Author: Comical Mahogany Locus Antidepressant Drug

Sorry, dude. Unfortunately sounds about right.

The business model is, generally, to bill as much as you can reasonably get away with. There are no bonuses for efficiency.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803545)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 10:48 PM
Author: stirring mustard sneaky criminal famous landscape painting

No need to have some sit down with new partners; just make a component of their draw how many billables their teams generate.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803560)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 11:10 PM
Author: arousing carmine blood rage

This is why making partner at a lockstep Firm is credited

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803760)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 10:55 PM
Author: claret voyeur



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803618)



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Date: April 10th, 2018 8:49 PM
Author: Dull Razzmatazz Plaza Brethren

I don’t work for partners like this. When you get more senior you can call out partners for doing dumb shit like this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35811536)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 11:19 PM
Author: burgundy cracking turdskin new version

jews

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803836)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 11:20 PM
Author: Salmon potus pozpig

the people. and of those, the people who think it's "not that bad" or "could be worse" are the absolute worst

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803840)



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Date: April 9th, 2018 11:22 PM
Author: claret voyeur



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35803847)



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Date: April 10th, 2018 2:59 AM
Author: Bat-shit-crazy business firm

for 50% of biglawyers, at least, <><NO EXIT OPS><>

ljl at us litmos

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35804731)



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Date: April 10th, 2018 8:39 PM
Author: Dull Razzmatazz Plaza Brethren

Total lack of job security or promotion potential.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35811479)



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Date: April 10th, 2018 8:47 PM
Author: Pea-brained coffee pot

Non-law dood here. Isn't Biglaw what most people are striving for when they enter law school? People are stressing over LSAT, Law school grades, passing bar only to be under constant stress for most of career until they reach partner? Brutal profession if true.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35811526)



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Date: April 10th, 2018 8:50 PM
Author: Dull Razzmatazz Plaza Brethren

Yes except that 98% will never reach partner.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35811539)



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Date: April 10th, 2018 8:51 PM
Author: Pea-brained coffee pot

can you let your foot off the gas a bit when you reach partner?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35811544)



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Date: April 10th, 2018 8:53 PM
Author: Dull Razzmatazz Plaza Brethren

No. You have to work 2X as hard as a new partner to bring in business unless you want to be deequitized/fired. You can “let your foot off the gas” when you’ve been a partner for 20 years and are getting ready to retire.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35811559)



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Date: April 10th, 2018 8:56 PM
Author: Pea-brained coffee pot

i thought it was like making tenure. LOL@me

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35811577)



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Date: April 10th, 2018 8:51 PM
Author: Canary mood

Imagine the soul crushing hours of banking, but less sexy and more autistic.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35811546)



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Date: April 10th, 2018 8:51 PM
Author: Dull Razzmatazz Plaza Brethren

L

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35811548)



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Date: April 10th, 2018 8:56 PM
Author: arousing carmine blood rage

What do you mean you only work a little bit?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35811571)



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Date: April 10th, 2018 9:23 PM
Author: Dull Razzmatazz Plaza Brethren



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35811715)



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Date: April 10th, 2018 9:54 PM
Author: arousing carmine blood rage

U tranny or lit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35811898)



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Date: April 10th, 2018 10:03 PM
Author: Dull Razzmatazz Plaza Brethren

Lit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35811951)



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Date: April 10th, 2018 8:57 PM
Author: Canary mood

Q for big lolyers: as someone smart enough to make it to big law, i.e, did great in undergrad, did great on LSAT, went to a top law school, was one of top students in top school, then you reach the actual workforce around age 25-26...

You were probably, usually, the smartest kid in the room. But now you're at I dunno, Sullivan & Cromwell or some shit and everyone else is also "the smartest kid in the room". Is there some insane need inside you that drives you to compete in the most high-stress, evenly dealt playing field? Is this what lawyers get off on, some sick sense of proving they are indeed the Smartest One In The Room? Is that why the most depraved/psychopathic people seem to become the most successful, because the corollary to their success is a fiendish drive from insecurity? I'm wondering how anything other than a sort of neurotic tenacity can propel one through a daily existence like big law, even money included.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35811585)



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Date: April 10th, 2018 9:57 PM
Author: Dull Razzmatazz Plaza Brethren

Nah big law is chill

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35811913)



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Date: April 10th, 2018 10:03 PM
Author: Canary mood



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35811952)



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Date: April 10th, 2018 10:04 PM
Author: contagious idiot senate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35811961)



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Date: April 10th, 2018 9:58 PM
Author: contagious idiot senate

Not the hours, it's the unpredictability! Yay!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3944195&forum_id=2#35811916)