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What was the shittiest year of your life?
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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:59 AM Author: ladders (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49626378) |
Date: January 28th, 2026 10:59 AM Author: '"'"'"''" 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=2\u0026hid=#49626382) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:58 PM Author: (._.`) ( - - ) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49627484) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:15 AM Author: Guy Debord 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=2\u0026hid=#49626414) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:16 AM Author: computer online (🧐) 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=2\u0026hid=#49626416) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:19 AM Author: zesty what year is it rn (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49626424) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:43 PM Author: Matthias of Redwall Did Nothing Wrong #Cornflower (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49627416) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 7:56 PM Author: I am God (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49628645) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:57 AM Author: titus chicken 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=2\u0026hid=#49626484) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:01 PM Author: norwood ultra every year is the shittiest year of my life so far (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49626491) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:06 PM Author: zesty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49626492) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:08 PM Author: ladders (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49626494) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:47 PM Author: AZNgirl Humping Shriveled Cock of Dead ICE Victim (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49626854) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:56 PM Author: ladders (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49627478) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:08 PM Author: zesty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49627529) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:00 PM Author: (._.`) ( - - ) wow, thats messed up (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49627490) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:12 PM Author: Tenterhooks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49627541) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:31 PM Author: ladders (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49627659) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 7:56 PM Author: 6 7 Already underrated (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49628644) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:09 PM Author: ladders (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49628693) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:12 PM Author: Metal Up Your Ass (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49628698) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:12 PM Author: ladders (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49628700) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:32 PM Author: Battle Diaper Alita tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49627673) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:15 PM Author: .,.,.;;,;.,;:,:,,:,.,:,::,..;.,:,.:;.:.,;.:.,:.::, 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=2\u0026hid=#49626514) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:34 PM Author: ladders many poeple are saying this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49626570) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:25 PM Author: spaceporns big night on the town ((zurich is stained)) 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. |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:32 PM Author: ladders 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=2\u0026hid=#49626561) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:38 PM Author: spaceporns big night on the town ((zurich is stained)) 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. |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 2:05 PM Author: titus chicken 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=2\u0026hid=#49626916) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:26 PM Author: spaceporns big night on the town ((zurich is stained)) 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. |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:32 PM Author: titus chicken 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=2\u0026hid=#49626562) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:33 PM Author: spaceporns big night on the town ((zurich is stained)) 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=2\u0026hid=#49626564) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:47 PM Author: titus chicken 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). |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:50 PM Author: spaceporns big night on the town ((zurich is stained)) 180, we beat the odds (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49626860) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:33 PM Author: ladders and then boom ITE, lol fuckin a (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49626565) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:43 PM Author: Matthias of Redwall Did Nothing Wrong #Cornflower (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49627415) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:45 PM Author: gunneratttt gives free BJs to brocolli haired zoom (gunneratttt) "oh. so you were just a loser then."
*gary chuckles* |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:25 PM Author: spaceporns big night on the town ((zurich is stained)) (never worked at a biglaw firm) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49627623) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:31 PM Author: gunneratttt gives free BJs to brocolli haired zoom (gunneratttt) regional large midlaw!!! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49627658) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:31 PM Author: My real dad left at 11, brother. 2023 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49626775) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:44 PM Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,.,.,:::,...,:,...:..:.,:.::,. 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=2\u0026hid=#49627418) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:03 PM Author: No Paye No Gain 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=2\u0026hid=#49627499) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:44 PM Author: My real dad left at 11, brother. Slackfist Cumdumpster (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49627750) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 7:58 PM Author: 6 7 Those were some great threads. Any bort historians able to link them? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49628650) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:15 PM Author: No Paye No Gain Skadden Farts
https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1905801&mc=187&forum_id=2#20278379 |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:15 PM Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,.,.,:::,...,:,...:..:.,:.::,. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49628712) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:21 PM Author: 6 7 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49628729) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:25 PM Author: No Paye No Gain 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=2\u0026hid=#49628752) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:15 PM Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,.,.,:::,...,:,...:..:.,:.::,. LMAO, no things weren't that bad for me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49628709) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:31 PM Author: The Minnesota Protestor's Auto that Dripped Blood (No Future) 2024 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49627669) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 7:55 PM Author: No Paye No Gain 2013 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49628643) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:01 PM Author: ...,.,,.....,,.,...,......,...,....,.. Probably 2018. I lost a friend to suicide and one of my relatives was diagnosed with cancer. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49628663) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:18 PM Author: 6 7 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. |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:20 PM Author: fraudmerica, ameriscam 2024-ongoing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49628724) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:33 PM Author: Timmy Titsucker 2025 for sure. Wife caught me cheating and it was a huge thing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#49628818) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:34 PM 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=2\u0026hid=#49628832) |