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Poll: Draft by "End of Day" Means 5 pm, 8 pm, midnight, 9 am next day?

Also--your time or their time?
ultramarine thirsty stag film
  01/05/26
your time eod 12am
Walnut excitant site background story
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Aquamarine rigpig
  01/05/26
Why midnight? Assume you don't have a reason to think the pe...
ultramarine thirsty stag film
  01/05/26
“Assume you don't have a reason to think the people wa...
Histrionic Gunner Doctorate
  01/05/26
eod = midnight cob = 1700
Spectacular wild pozpig
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dull factory reset button chapel
  01/05/26
Cr
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mischievous quadroon boistinker
  01/05/26
"When it's done"
floppy knife parlor
  01/05/26
What if it's not done until after EOD?
ultramarine thirsty stag film
  01/05/26
Will flip this to you ASAP, thanks
floppy knife parlor
  01/05/26
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sepia ratface
  01/05/26
depends on the context. court filing? midnight. in-house? li...
french associate
  01/05/26
Court filing is easy insofar as there will be a Local Rule. ...
ultramarine thirsty stag film
  01/05/26
it depends on your office culture and who else is involved
french associate
  01/05/26
Biglaw trannies are also midnight, but 10 pm is far more app...
clear vibrant jap
  01/05/26
Setting an artificial 4 pm deadline is wild. If someone want...
ultramarine thirsty stag film
  01/05/26
I’m absolutely swamped with poasts to make
Snowy costumed temple
  01/05/26
Yes. The point of the 4 pm deadline is for them to pretend t...
clear vibrant jap
  01/05/26
2pm if a scientist needs to review it
Bat-shit-crazy sable range
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dull factory reset button chapel
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bronze coldplay fan immigrant
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Insecure demanding corn cake
  01/05/26
usually means "within the hour"
mind-boggling turdskin main people
  01/05/26
9 or 10pm
ruby crotch headpube
  01/05/26
Why those times? At 9, I might just be logging back on after...
ultramarine thirsty stag film
  01/05/26
It generally means 5 or 6pm in the requestor’s time zo...
Arousing masturbator step-uncle's house
  01/05/26
What is requestor is in Europe? Or you're on west coast, req...
ultramarine thirsty stag film
  01/05/26
in house it means 5 to 6pm. biglaw it means midnight.
Slap-happy idiot
  01/05/26
Cr.
bat shit crazy casino
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Blathering market potus
  01/05/26
More precisely in biglaw, end of day means “before you...
Insecure demanding corn cake
  01/05/26
There’s going to be more punctuation at the end of tha...
Arousing masturbator step-uncle's house
  01/06/26
lol
Insecure demanding corn cake
  01/07/26
At the end of the day, what does it matter?
ebony office
  01/05/26
close of business means by 5pm, but end of day is anytime by...
Underhanded umber principal's office shitlib
  01/06/26
You got it reversed
Insecure demanding corn cake
  01/07/26
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  01/13/26


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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:13 PM
Author: ultramarine thirsty stag film

Also--your time or their time?

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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:15 PM
Author: Walnut excitant site background story

your time eod 12am

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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:18 PM
Author: Aquamarine rigpig



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:20 PM
Author: ultramarine thirsty stag film

Why midnight? Assume you don't have a reason to think the people waiting on the draft are going to do another turn in the wee hours of the morning. So, at that point, what's the differences with doing (and billing for) a few more hours and sending it at 3 am?

And at that point, what's the difference with waiting to send it at 7 or 8 am, before the next workday starts?

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Date: January 5th, 2026 4:50 PM
Author: Histrionic Gunner Doctorate

“Assume you don't have a reason to think the people waiting on the draft are going to do another turn in the wee hours of the morning.”

what kind of penny-ante hobbyists are you working across from?

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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:18 PM
Author: Spectacular wild pozpig

eod = midnight

cob = 1700

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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:20 PM
Author: dull factory reset button chapel



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:51 PM
Author: zippy charismatic internal respiration personal credit line

Cr

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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:53 PM
Author: mischievous quadroon boistinker



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:19 PM
Author: floppy knife parlor

"When it's done"



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:21 PM
Author: ultramarine thirsty stag film

What if it's not done until after EOD?

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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:26 PM
Author: floppy knife parlor

Will flip this to you ASAP, thanks

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Date: January 5th, 2026 11:45 PM
Author: sepia ratface



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:20 PM
Author: french associate

depends on the context. court filing? midnight. in-house? like 2pm.

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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:23 PM
Author: ultramarine thirsty stag film

Court filing is easy insofar as there will be a Local Rule.

For other work, I don't want to scramble to get things done by 2 pm--especially because it means I might get the next round of comments back the same day. I want to chill while things build up throughout the day, then scramble through several things between about 4:30 and 5:20.

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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:38 PM
Author: french associate

it depends on your office culture and who else is involved

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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:25 PM
Author: clear vibrant jap

Biglaw trannies are also midnight, but 10 pm is far more appreciated because it lets others bill easy hours before bed. Inhouse 2 pm is only west coast with east coast audience but most people specify “COB” and that means get it out by 4 your time so others have the option of reviewing before they leave to pick up their kids or after they put their kids to bed (they won’t actually review or respond for at least a week).

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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:31 PM
Author: ultramarine thirsty stag film

Setting an artificial 4 pm deadline is wild. If someone wants to review it that day, they should say so and specify a time. People get jammed up with meetings, multiple agreements to review, poasts to make, etc.

Absolutely CR re "they won’t actually review or respond for at least a week," btw. There are two times for responses--5 minutes after you send and late next week.

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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:39 PM
Author: Snowy costumed temple

I’m absolutely swamped with poasts to make

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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:42 PM
Author: clear vibrant jap

Yes. The point of the 4 pm deadline is for them to pretend that they are hardworking and for you to pass your own self-imposed shit test. But the logic of this makes sense the more exposure you have to senior execs/SVPs and other managers of managers who are running large organizations. Most of what they do is at least partially performative.

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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:25 PM
Author: Bat-shit-crazy sable range

2pm if a scientist needs to review it

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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:39 PM
Author: dull factory reset button chapel



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Date: January 5th, 2026 5:06 PM
Author: bronze coldplay fan immigrant



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Date: January 5th, 2026 10:45 PM
Author: Insecure demanding corn cake



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:35 PM
Author: mind-boggling turdskin main people

usually means "within the hour"

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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:44 PM
Author: ruby crotch headpube

9 or 10pm

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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:54 PM
Author: ultramarine thirsty stag film

Why those times? At 9, I might just be logging back on after the kids go to bed. So, getting the draft out before I go to bed matches the EOD and my schedule better.

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Date: January 5th, 2026 4:47 PM
Author: Arousing masturbator step-uncle's house

It generally means 5 or 6pm in the requestor’s time zone if the person is either important or a client. In other cases it means before they log on the next morning.

Worst thing you can do is send it early enough to get comments back that night, after you’ve rushed to get it out, screwed off online for 90 mins to recuperate, and finally turned to the other work you were supposed to get done yesterday/today/last week.

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Date: January 5th, 2026 6:09 PM
Author: ultramarine thirsty stag film

What is requestor is in Europe? Or you're on west coast, requestor is on east coast?

In either of those cases, it should mean before they log on the next morning.

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Date: January 5th, 2026 8:29 PM
Author: Slap-happy idiot

in house it means 5 to 6pm. biglaw it means midnight.

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Date: January 5th, 2026 10:26 PM
Author: bat shit crazy casino

Cr.

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Date: January 5th, 2026 11:44 PM
Author: Blathering market potus



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Date: January 5th, 2026 10:18 PM
Author: Insecure demanding corn cake

More precisely in biglaw, end of day means “before you go to bed and before I wake up.” But you better gird your ass if you misjudge that and get a “Where is the draft?” at 4 am.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2).#49565681)



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Date: January 6th, 2026 8:13 PM
Author: Arousing masturbator step-uncle's house

There’s going to be more punctuation at the end of that 4am email

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Date: January 7th, 2026 3:05 PM
Author: Insecure demanding corn cake

lol

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Date: January 5th, 2026 11:45 PM
Author: ebony office

At the end of the day, what does it matter?

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Date: January 6th, 2026 8:15 PM
Author: Underhanded umber principal's office shitlib

close of business means by 5pm, but end of day is anytime by midnight for biglaw and by tomorrow dawn for mid-tier firms.

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Date: January 7th, 2026 3:06 PM
Author: Insecure demanding corn cake

You got it reversed

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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:42 PM
Author: ;..;.;..;...;..;.;.;.;;;;




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