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typical day in the life of a corporate lawyer

well?
Alcoholic Sneaky Criminal Mexican
  06/29/06
Fucks his secretary. goes home to his psychotic wife.
diverse hall electric furnace
  06/29/06
"I could be doing that, but then I'd also have a $1000 ...
Anal lay
  07/01/06
vault.com ---> industries ---> law They have day-in...
Lime mother business firm
  06/30/06
He watches the O'RLY Factor on FOX NEWS!
Idiotic 180 Kitchen
  07/02/06
10 a.m. wake up to the gentle sound of money rustling. 10:3...
well-lubricated indecent windowlicker
  06/29/06
4 a.m. Wake up to the sound of alarm clock ringing, hit snoo...
aqua internal respiration water buffalo
  06/30/06
Can I drink between 10 and 11?
Thriller carnelian deer antler feces
  06/30/06
Edited: Sure, alcohol burn makes the wacking off that much b...
aqua internal respiration water buffalo
  06/30/06
In the PM. I'm home then in my boxlike studio in a trendy b...
Thriller carnelian deer antler feces
  06/30/06
180
Soggy Concupiscible Resort Idiot
  06/30/06
What a total fucking lie. As if McD's is open at 4am.
rusted know-it-all gaming laptop piazza
  06/30/06
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5437151/ Oak Brook, Illinois-base...
aqua internal respiration water buffalo
  06/30/06
Damn, moving to oak brook now.
rusted know-it-all gaming laptop piazza
  06/30/06
You don't have 24 hour McDonald's... WTF????
Thriller carnelian deer antler feces
  06/30/06
Isn't the Times Sq. one 24 hours?
Wonderful orange mental disorder theater stage
  06/30/06
So is one by my house on the Island. I thought a lot of the...
Thriller carnelian deer antler feces
  06/30/06
Even lots of the ones in East Bumfuck are open 24 hours.
Cruel-hearted area round eye
  07/02/06
flame. associates have to take town cars; only partners get ...
harsh forum pocket flask
  06/30/06
this was getting a 175 until the last one brought it up to 1...
self-centered twinkling range
  06/30/06
Agreed dood.
Thriller carnelian deer antler feces
  06/30/06
This lawyer has sex for less than 2 minutes?
crawly lodge nowag
  06/30/06
Hookers don't care.
aqua internal respiration water buffalo
  06/30/06
I would think they would prefer it.
crawly lodge nowag
  06/30/06
That must be why they get along so well with lawyers.
aqua internal respiration water buffalo
  06/30/06
here is joke (imagine it flying) . . . . . here is you...
harsh forum pocket flask
  06/30/06
Just beautiful.
chestnut electric faggotry elastic band
  07/01/06
10:15 teach immigrant the word is 'leisurely,' not 'easurely...
Yellow Ticket Booth Laser Beams
  07/01/06
and here i thought i was learning a new word.
brindle yarmulke
  07/01/06
9:00 am - I just got into the office. The investment banker...
Anal lay
  07/01/06
i laughed at this. ty.
Soggy Concupiscible Resort Idiot
  07/01/06
you're too stupid and unprestigious to ever become a biglawy...
maniacal stage
  07/01/06
agreed. kill self?
Soggy Concupiscible Resort Idiot
  07/01/06
A+++++++++
chartreuse spectacular sandwich
  07/01/06
My days vary a lot. But as a basic template: 9:30 Come ...
chestnut electric faggotry elastic band
  07/01/06
riveting
vivacious stage boiling water
  07/01/06
How does a negotiation with a document go?
chartreuse spectacular sandwich
  07/01/06
? I normally negotiate with people about documents. Not ...
chestnut electric faggotry elastic band
  07/01/06
You don't know anything about negotiation, though.
chartreuse spectacular sandwich
  07/01/06
What do you mean? If you mean that I'm not particularly tra...
chestnut electric faggotry elastic band
  07/01/06
Typical they don't let you get anywhere near money. You'll a...
chartreuse spectacular sandwich
  07/01/06
far below, even
vivacious stage boiling water
  07/01/06
In preschool on career day, a v50 partner's child was teased...
chartreuse spectacular sandwich
  07/01/06
Good thing you attend TAMU then, hotbed of ibank recruiting ...
Yellow Ticket Booth Laser Beams
  07/01/06
"i don't do anything important, but, like the other tar...
dashing state
  07/01/06
Usually pretty one-sided, which is nice because we can feel ...
vivacious stage boiling water
  07/01/06
This doesn't sound too bad up utnil after dinner.
Thriller carnelian deer antler feces
  07/01/06
He could cut his day in half if his first revision of the do...
chartreuse spectacular sandwich
  07/01/06
Corporate associates never know what they're doing. That's w...
vivacious stage boiling water
  07/01/06
You two are pretty boring. I'd love to hear how your typica...
chestnut electric faggotry elastic band
  07/01/06
My day is pretty similar to yours, actually. Just giving you...
vivacious stage boiling water
  07/01/06
11:20 get up 11:25 smoke weed 12-2 class 2:20 smoke 3 dr...
chartreuse spectacular sandwich
  07/01/06
180
vivacious stage boiling water
  07/01/06
Dr Phil bro? GHEY
Thriller carnelian deer antler feces
  07/01/06
wtf bro? phil roolz
chartreuse spectacular sandwich
  07/01/06
IF YOU WANT DIFFERENT DO DIFFERENT- this is not roolz
Thriller carnelian deer antler feces
  07/01/06
this is the best life.
maniacal stage
  07/01/06
it never ceases to amaze me how many people make PTI a cruci...
Soggy Concupiscible Resort Idiot
  07/01/06
good thing showers and dates don't sneak their way into your...
Violent deranged crackhouse
  07/01/06
lmao
Thriller carnelian deer antler feces
  07/01/06
How do you know when you have the ability to "negotiate...
Wonderful orange mental disorder theater stage
  07/01/06
Depends. To some extent you just have a feel for what peopl...
chestnut electric faggotry elastic band
  07/01/06
So it sounds like you quickly move from having no experience...
Wonderful orange mental disorder theater stage
  07/01/06
Yes. I (and most of my classmates) became responsible for p...
chestnut electric faggotry elastic band
  07/02/06
That does seem quite painful, and unless ? is like 8:15, rid...
Spruce arousing multi-billionaire
  07/01/06
Well I'm writing at a very general level. Replace "neg...
chestnut electric faggotry elastic band
  07/01/06
Hardly -- only an idiot would use lexis.
Spruce arousing multi-billionaire
  07/01/06
haha, i'm not clear on what "troll lexis" even mea...
maniacal stage
  07/01/06
Lexis is cheaper and has a better interface. It's the choice...
Wonderful orange mental disorder theater stage
  07/01/06
Westlaw pwns lexis.
zippy abusive abode regret
  07/01/06
The fact that you can get pleadings from cases handled by qu...
Yellow Ticket Booth Laser Beams
  07/01/06
wow, you're gonna be a great lawyer someday!
zippy abusive abode regret
  07/01/06
I think it's clear I already am. Besides, why re-create the ...
Yellow Ticket Booth Laser Beams
  07/01/06
Do they not have pleadings on lexis?
Spruce arousing multi-billionaire
  07/01/06
Not that I recall, but I haven't used Lexis in years.
Yellow Ticket Booth Laser Beams
  07/01/06
Sucks to be them.
Spruce arousing multi-billionaire
  07/01/06
yes, they actually do.
greedy irradiated puppy doctorate
  07/01/06
Cheaper? WTF? Why would I possibly care if it is cheaper? Le...
Spruce arousing multi-billionaire
  07/01/06
i hate how lexis's citation's must be perfect...if you cite ...
zippy abusive abode regret
  07/01/06
LOL
vivacious stage boiling water
  07/01/06
I just can't figure out why they would not have the useful h...
Spruce arousing multi-billionaire
  07/01/06
Both interfaces are fucking hopeless. I'm praying for the d...
aqua internal respiration water buffalo
  07/02/06
Are you ever solely responsible for drafting whole, extensiv...
Aphrodisiac International Law Enforcement Agency
  07/01/06
that'd probably constitute malpractice.
zippy abusive abode regret
  07/01/06
I don't think anyone has ever sat down (at least not in the ...
chestnut electric faggotry elastic band
  07/02/06
Thanks for the response - so you would say that the challeng...
Aphrodisiac International Law Enforcement Agency
  07/02/06
The 7 Habits of Highly Useless Corporate Lawyers. "E...
zippy abusive abode regret
  07/01/06
There are many firms for which this is 100% accurate. Mine,...
chestnut electric faggotry elastic band
  07/02/06
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Swashbuckling double fault bawdyhouse
  01/12/08


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Date: June 29th, 2006 8:33 PM
Author: Alcoholic Sneaky Criminal Mexican

well?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6106574)



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Date: June 29th, 2006 8:35 PM
Author: diverse hall electric furnace

Fucks his secretary. goes home to his psychotic wife.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6106587)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 3:04 PM
Author: Anal lay

"I could be doing that, but then I'd also have a $1000 a day coke and hooker habit and beat my wife and kids in the Hamptons on the weekends that I see them. This way, I only punish my liver, and what good is a liver if you don't abuse it?"

Tucker Max, in reference to being a corporate lawyer.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118224)



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Date: June 30th, 2006 3:21 PM
Author: Lime mother business firm

vault.com ---> industries ---> law

They have day-in-the-life things.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112338)



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Date: July 2nd, 2006 4:14 AM
Author: Idiotic 180 Kitchen

He watches the O'RLY Factor on FOX NEWS!

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6122328)



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Date: June 29th, 2006 8:45 PM
Author: well-lubricated indecent windowlicker

10 a.m. wake up to the gentle sound of money rustling.

10:30 be served breakfast in bed by french maid

11:00 be taken by limo to office

11:15 start working

11:45 leave for lunch with client. Take easurely stroll to restaurant.

12:15 arrive at restaurant. Eat steak with client. Drink wine.

2:15 pm Leave restaurant. Take easurely stroll to office.

2:45 Arrive at office. Start working.

3:30 Time for a coffee break.

3:50 Return to your desk. Start working

4:00 Go to CLE seminar. They serve good food.

5:00 Return to desk. No more work, but stay for face time,

5:30 take limo to your private club. Relax with friends.

7:30 meet date for dinner.

9:30 Go dancing.

11:30 Return home, make passionate love

11:32 Fall asleep to the sound of interest accruing.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6106646)



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Date: June 30th, 2006 3:20 PM
Author: aqua internal respiration water buffalo

4 a.m. Wake up to the sound of alarm clock ringing, hit snooze button.

4:15 a.m. Wake up to sound of alarm clock ringing again, drag ass out of bed and into shower.

4:45 a.m. Arrive at office, having picked up McDonald's breakfast on the way.

5:00 a.m. Start working.

12:00 p.m. Order lunch for delivery. Eat at desk.

7:00 p.m. Order dinner for delivery. Eat at desk.

8:00 p.m. Check bank balance online. Notice it is very large. Wish for time to spend it.

10:00 p.m. Go home. Wack off with aid of internet porn.

11:00 p.m. Cry self to sleep.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112331)



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Date: June 30th, 2006 3:22 PM
Author: Thriller carnelian deer antler feces

Can I drink between 10 and 11?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112343)



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Date: June 30th, 2006 3:23 PM
Author: aqua internal respiration water buffalo

Edited: Sure, alcohol burn makes the wacking off that much better.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112353)



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Date: June 30th, 2006 3:23 PM
Author: Thriller carnelian deer antler feces

In the PM. I'm home then in my boxlike studio in a trendy building.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112359)



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Date: June 30th, 2006 3:25 PM
Author: Soggy Concupiscible Resort Idiot

180

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112371)



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Date: June 30th, 2006 3:47 PM
Author: rusted know-it-all gaming laptop piazza

What a total fucking lie. As if McD's is open at 4am.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112565)



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Date: June 30th, 2006 3:49 PM
Author: aqua internal respiration water buffalo

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5437151/

Oak Brook, Illinois-based McDonald's, which since 2003 has curbed expansion to improve operations and build traffic at existing stores, now has about 80 percent of its 13,000 U.S. restaurants on some form of extended hours, a spokesman said. At least 12 percent operate around the clock.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112600)



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Date: June 30th, 2006 3:52 PM
Author: rusted know-it-all gaming laptop piazza

Damn, moving to oak brook now.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112635)



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Date: June 30th, 2006 3:55 PM
Author: Thriller carnelian deer antler feces

You don't have 24 hour McDonald's... WTF????

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112675)



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Date: June 30th, 2006 3:55 PM
Author: Wonderful orange mental disorder theater stage

Isn't the Times Sq. one 24 hours?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112679)



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Date: June 30th, 2006 3:58 PM
Author: Thriller carnelian deer antler feces

So is one by my house on the Island. I thought a lot of them were. Unless you live in bumblefuck.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112710)



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Date: July 2nd, 2006 11:35 AM
Author: Cruel-hearted area round eye

Even lots of the ones in East Bumfuck are open 24 hours.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6122521)



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Date: June 30th, 2006 3:23 PM
Author: harsh forum pocket flask

flame. associates have to take town cars; only partners get limos

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112357)



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Date: June 30th, 2006 3:24 PM
Author: self-centered twinkling range

this was getting a 175 until the last one brought it up to 180

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112365)



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Date: June 30th, 2006 3:49 PM
Author: Thriller carnelian deer antler feces

Agreed dood.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112604)



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Date: June 30th, 2006 3:49 PM
Author: crawly lodge nowag

This lawyer has sex for less than 2 minutes?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112595)



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Date: June 30th, 2006 3:50 PM
Author: aqua internal respiration water buffalo

Hookers don't care.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112608)



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Date: June 30th, 2006 3:55 PM
Author: crawly lodge nowag

I would think they would prefer it.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112669)



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Date: June 30th, 2006 3:56 PM
Author: aqua internal respiration water buffalo

That must be why they get along so well with lawyers.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112689)



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Date: June 30th, 2006 3:58 PM
Author: harsh forum pocket flask

here is joke (imagine it flying)

.

.

.

.

.

here is your head

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112706)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 12:47 PM
Author: chestnut electric faggotry elastic band

Just beautiful.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6117628)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 3:26 PM
Author: Yellow Ticket Booth Laser Beams

10:15 teach immigrant the word is 'leisurely,' not 'easurely.'

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118293)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 7:18 PM
Author: brindle yarmulke

and here i thought i was learning a new word.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6119301)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 2:55 PM
Author: Anal lay

9:00 am - I just got into the office. The investment bankers will be here any minute to bully us around with this billion-dollar acquisition they're advising on. I start putting on my kneepads.

10:00 am - The bankers roll in, late as usual, joking about how they make twice as much as us. I get on my knees and start sucking.

10:50 am - Finally, some directors from this prestigious buyout fund show up for the drafting session. One of them tells me to grab him some coffee.

10:54 am - As I'm handing him his mug of coffee, I just barely touch his hand. I almost climax.

11:00 am to 10:45 pm - I suck more people's dicks. Finally, I can go home.

11:05 pm - I'm about to sneak out of the office, when a senior partner leaves me a voicemail telling me that there's a whole bunch of shit to do. I was told during law school that biglawyers work a little less than junior investment bankers, but I guess I was lied to; I'll have to spend the night in the office. Again.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118201)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 2:59 PM
Author: Soggy Concupiscible Resort Idiot

i laughed at this. ty.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118211)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 3:11 PM
Author: maniacal stage

you're too stupid and unprestigious to ever become a biglawyer.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118252)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 3:28 PM
Author: Soggy Concupiscible Resort Idiot

agreed. kill self?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118306)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 3:58 PM
Author: chartreuse spectacular sandwich

A+++++++++

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118448)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 3:56 PM
Author: chestnut electric faggotry elastic band

My days vary a lot. But as a basic template:

9:30 Come in, read newspaper.

10am-6pm Talk on phone with people about issues in documents. Eat lunch at desk.

6pm-7:30pm Revise drafts of those documents.

7:30pm-8pm Dinner

8pm-? Revise drafts of those documents.

That's what I do -- negotiate documents, and draft them.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118439)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 3:57 PM
Author: vivacious stage boiling water

riveting

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118443)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 3:59 PM
Author: chartreuse spectacular sandwich

How does a negotiation with a document go?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118453)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:01 PM
Author: chestnut electric faggotry elastic band

?

I normally negotiate with people about documents. Not with documents.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118460)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:02 PM
Author: chartreuse spectacular sandwich

You don't know anything about negotiation, though.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118463)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:05 PM
Author: chestnut electric faggotry elastic band

What do you mean? If you mean that I'm not particularly trained in negotiation, I'd concede that. If you mean I don't negotiate, I would disagree. I'm not the one negotiating price or major deal terms, but the junior associates pretty regularly negotiate confidentiality agreements, agreements with various agents (i-bank engagement letters, exchange agent agreements, proxy solicitor engagements), language in securities filings, reps in merger agreements, disclosure schedules, etc.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118481)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:06 PM
Author: chartreuse spectacular sandwich

Typical they don't let you get anywhere near money. You'll always be below ibankers.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118488)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:07 PM
Author: vivacious stage boiling water

far below, even

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118491)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:09 PM
Author: chartreuse spectacular sandwich

In preschool on career day, a v50 partner's child was teased mercilessly. It was then I knew a career in law was a dead end.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118494)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 5:05 PM
Author: Yellow Ticket Booth Laser Beams

Good thing you attend TAMU then, hotbed of ibank recruiting that it is.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118730)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:20 PM
Author: dashing state

"i don't do anything important, but, like the other tards, i get to 'negotiate' boilerplate clauses."

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118537)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:02 PM
Author: vivacious stage boiling water

Usually pretty one-sided, which is nice because we can feel like we're winning, which is much different than negotiating with the ibankers.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118466)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:02 PM
Author: Thriller carnelian deer antler feces

This doesn't sound too bad up utnil after dinner.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118464)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:05 PM
Author: chartreuse spectacular sandwich

He could cut his day in half if his first revision of the documents weren't so shitty.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118479)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:06 PM
Author: vivacious stage boiling water

Corporate associates never know what they're doing. That's why they chose a career of proofreading and due diligence rather than practicing law.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118485)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:08 PM
Author: chestnut electric faggotry elastic band

You two are pretty boring. I'd love to hear how your typical day goes.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118492)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:10 PM
Author: vivacious stage boiling water

My day is pretty similar to yours, actually. Just giving you a hard time.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118497)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:10 PM
Author: chartreuse spectacular sandwich

11:20 get up

11:25 smoke weed

12-2 class

2:20 smoke

3 dr phil

4:30 PTI

5 smoke

3am sleep

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118498)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:12 PM
Author: vivacious stage boiling water

180

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118504)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:14 PM
Author: Thriller carnelian deer antler feces

Dr Phil bro? GHEY

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118511)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:15 PM
Author: chartreuse spectacular sandwich

wtf bro? phil roolz

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118514)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:18 PM
Author: Thriller carnelian deer antler feces

IF YOU WANT DIFFERENT DO DIFFERENT- this is not roolz

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118530)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:17 PM
Author: maniacal stage

this is the best life.

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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:38 PM
Author: Soggy Concupiscible Resort Idiot

it never ceases to amaze me how many people make PTI a crucial part of their day. that show is still good.

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Date: July 1st, 2006 5:24 PM
Author: Violent deranged crackhouse

good thing showers and dates don't sneak their way into your schedule.

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Date: July 1st, 2006 6:33 PM
Author: Thriller carnelian deer antler feces

lmao

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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:14 PM
Author: Wonderful orange mental disorder theater stage

How do you know when you have the ability to "negotiate" a particular term, and when that term should be passed to someone higher up? If the negotiate to reach an agreed upon understanding, generally, or are you really getting something more for your side?

Thanks for continuing to contribute even with so many jackasses here.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118510)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:19 PM
Author: chestnut electric faggotry elastic band

Depends. To some extent you just have a feel for what people care about. Or you'll negotiate your first ____ agreement/rep/whatever and ask the partner for advice, and by your second or third you'll know what to do on your own. In general, the more something restricts your client, creates liability, or allows the other side to do dangerous things, the less you can do on your own.

In general you negotiate to achieve more for your side, though it depends a bit. But there are a whole lot of provisions in any large contract that the principals don't have an "understanding" about -- no CEO has a clear, well-founded opinion on what his absence-of-changes rep should say -- but that are nonetheless important.

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Date: July 1st, 2006 5:02 PM
Author: Wonderful orange mental disorder theater stage

So it sounds like you quickly move from having no experience to someone with responsibility for at least pieces of the deal. It sounds like a job for someone who likes chatting it up on the phone.

Anyone call you a "f--king monkey scribe" yet?

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Date: July 2nd, 2006 1:31 PM
Author: chestnut electric faggotry elastic band

Yes. I (and most of my classmates) became responsible for parts of deals very quickly. There are deals where I'm the only associate and entirely responsible for things like confidentiality agreements, reps and warranties, disclosure schedules, proxy statement, etc. Partners will occasionally take a quick look. And I talk on the phone a lot.

No one has called me a fucking monkey scribe.

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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:17 PM
Author: Spruce arousing multi-billionaire

That does seem quite painful, and unless ? is like 8:15, ridiculously long.

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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:20 PM
Author: chestnut electric faggotry elastic band

Well I'm writing at a very general level. Replace "negotiate and draft documents" with "review emails and troll Lexis" and you have a day in the life of a litigator.

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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:22 PM
Author: Spruce arousing multi-billionaire

Hardly -- only an idiot would use lexis.

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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:24 PM
Author: maniacal stage

haha, i'm not clear on what "troll lexis" even means.

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Date: July 1st, 2006 4:58 PM
Author: Wonderful orange mental disorder theater stage

Lexis is cheaper and has a better interface. It's the choice of champions.

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Date: July 1st, 2006 5:02 PM
Author: zippy abusive abode regret

Westlaw pwns lexis.

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Date: July 1st, 2006 5:11 PM
Author: Yellow Ticket Booth Laser Beams

The fact that you can get pleadings from cases handled by quality firms makes your life much easier. Gibson handled an identical, and very complicated, issue to what I was charged with researching, and I stayed late that night rewriting their work. I next "worked from home" the next two days watching espn and lounging at the pool, then turned in the assignment a full day early.

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Date: July 1st, 2006 5:14 PM
Author: zippy abusive abode regret

wow, you're gonna be a great lawyer someday!

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Date: July 1st, 2006 5:16 PM
Author: Yellow Ticket Booth Laser Beams

I think it's clear I already am. Besides, why re-create the wheel?

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Date: July 1st, 2006 5:14 PM
Author: Spruce arousing multi-billionaire

Do they not have pleadings on lexis?

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Date: July 1st, 2006 5:16 PM
Author: Yellow Ticket Booth Laser Beams

Not that I recall, but I haven't used Lexis in years.

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Date: July 1st, 2006 5:17 PM
Author: Spruce arousing multi-billionaire

Sucks to be them.

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Date: July 1st, 2006 5:17 PM
Author: greedy irradiated puppy doctorate

yes, they actually do.

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Date: July 1st, 2006 5:06 PM
Author: Spruce arousing multi-billionaire

Cheaper? WTF? Why would I possibly care if it is cheaper? Lexis is shit. Westlaw is far superior. Nothing is worse that a lexis citation that forces me to use that crap.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118731)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 5:07 PM
Author: zippy abusive abode regret

i hate how lexis's citation's must be perfect...if you cite "columbia law review" it will have no idea what you're doing.

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Date: July 1st, 2006 5:08 PM
Author: vivacious stage boiling water

LOL

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Date: July 1st, 2006 5:09 PM
Author: Spruce arousing multi-billionaire

I just can't figure out why they would not have the useful headnotes like westlaw. The lexis headnotes are worthless. And the key number digest is great.

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Date: July 2nd, 2006 10:41 AM
Author: aqua internal respiration water buffalo

Both interfaces are fucking hopeless. I'm praying for the day that google starts indexing caselaw.

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Date: July 1st, 2006 6:59 PM
Author: Aphrodisiac International Law Enforcement Agency

Are you ever solely responsible for drafting whole, extensive deals (like 50 pages and up) or are they derived from other sources? (like multiple authors and existing documents).

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6119225)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 7:14 PM
Author: zippy abusive abode regret

that'd probably constitute malpractice.

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Date: July 2nd, 2006 1:33 PM
Author: chestnut electric faggotry elastic band

I don't think anyone has ever sat down (at least not in the last 40 years) and written a merger agreement from scratch. It would make no sense. I am often responsible for first drafts of merger agreements, but I'll stitch them together from precedents.

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Date: July 2nd, 2006 2:11 PM
Author: Aphrodisiac International Law Enforcement Agency

Thanks for the response - so you would say that the challenge of your job lies in deciding the appropriate terms/rules/prices within somewhat standardized formats?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6123191)



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Date: July 1st, 2006 7:14 PM
Author: zippy abusive abode regret

The 7 Habits of Highly Useless Corporate Lawyers.

"Ernie from Glen Burnie", not his real name, is an unreliable but wise childhood friend of mine who likes the works of Hunter Thompson. EFGB is now a partner at a Washington, DC law firm. For years he has claimed that the following--by an unknown and long-dead lawyer, and dated 1836--was discovered during the 1980s in the ruins of an old Episcopal church in a northern Virginia town near our native DC. I would believe EFGB--except that I doubt that the word "weenie" was much in style in the antebellum American south:

1. Be risk-averse at all times. Clients have come to expect this from their lawyers. It's tradition. Honor it.

2. Tell the client only what it can't do. Business clients are run by business people who take risks. They need to be managed, guided, stopped. Don't encourage them.

3. Whatever you do, don't take a stand, and don't make a recommendation. (You don't want to be wrong, do you?)

4. Treat the client as a potential adversary at all times. Keep a distance.

5. Cover yourself. Write a lot to the client. Craft lots of confirming letters which use clauses like "it is our understanding", "our analysis is limited to..." and "we do not express an opinion as to whether..."

6. Churn up extra fees with extra letters and memoranda and tasks. Milk the engagement. (If you are going to be a weenie anyway, you might as well be a sneaky weenie.)

7. As out-house counsel, you are American royalty. Never forget that.

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Date: July 2nd, 2006 1:35 PM
Author: chestnut electric faggotry elastic band

There are many firms for which this is 100% accurate. Mine, fortunately, is not one of them.

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Date: January 12th, 2008 12:12 PM
Author: Swashbuckling double fault bawdyhouse



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