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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:59 AM Author: charcoal sanctuary 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\u0026show=6hr#49626382) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:58 PM Author: Chestnut at-the-ready knife (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49627484) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:15 AM Author: violet stirring rehab 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\u0026show=6hr#49626414) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:16 AM Author: Provocative point 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\u0026show=6hr#49626416) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:57 AM Author: Boyish Rambunctious Theatre Dog Poop 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\u0026show=6hr#49626484) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:01 PM Author: Jade startling church building double fault every year is the shittiest year of my life so far (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49626491) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:15 PM Author: beta reading party hell 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\u0026show=6hr#49626514) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:25 PM Author: cerebral stag film 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: Brilliant Slap-happy Casino 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\u0026show=6hr#49626561) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:38 PM Author: cerebral stag film 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: Boyish Rambunctious Theatre Dog Poop 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\u0026show=6hr#49626916) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:26 PM Author: cerebral stag film 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: Boyish Rambunctious Theatre Dog Poop 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\u0026show=6hr#49626562) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:33 PM Author: cerebral stag film 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\u0026show=6hr#49626564) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:47 PM Author: Boyish Rambunctious Theatre Dog Poop 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 4:44 PM Author: Up-to-no-good friendly grandma senate 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\u0026show=6hr#49627418) |
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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:18 PM Author: swashbuckling toilet seat 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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