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EXPLAIN why being a lawyer sucks these days

Compared to our fathers' generation.
Contagious Awkward Sanctuary Dragon
  09/06/10
- it is significantly harder to get into BIGLAW - Going sol...
floppy zombie-like mad-dog skullcap hospital
  09/06/10
"In order to practice law, a lawyer needs a place to bi...
wonderful heaven
  09/06/10
Billable expectations 80% higher, chance of making partner 8...
burgundy pea-brained state love of her life
  09/06/10
The fact that all the research is available on the computer ...
Pale Dead Athletic Conference Lodge
  09/06/10
i thought about this the other day as i did a control+F on a...
Frozen house-broken church striped hyena
  09/06/10
everything sucks compared to our fathers' generation. we wor...
Stubborn Azn
  09/06/10
seems like old school lawyers did way less work, they just k...
pink concupiscible stead
  09/06/10
more hours, e-discovery.
Laughsome jew
  09/06/10
40% more hours, 30% less pay when you take into account infl...
Hairraiser jade corn cake
  09/06/10
it's far less congenial from what i hear. if you were a l...
vengeful mildly autistic dog poop base
  09/06/10
Back in the day, people thought the law was a source of inde...
topaz nofapping theater
  09/06/10
Laws are meant to control people, and lawyers are just minio...
black talented pozpig
  09/06/10
the laity caught on to the bill-by-the-hour scam and now wan...
coiffed maroon roast beef reading party
  09/06/10


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Date: September 6th, 2010 2:38 PM
Author: Contagious Awkward Sanctuary Dragon

Compared to our fathers' generation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15978652)



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Date: September 6th, 2010 2:48 PM
Author: floppy zombie-like mad-dog skullcap hospital

- it is significantly harder to get into BIGLAW

- Going solo is impossible because of TTT

- Salaries outside of BIGLAW have gone down

- student debt is a major problem now



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15978728)



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Date: September 6th, 2010 9:31 PM
Author: wonderful heaven

"In order to practice law, a lawyer needs a place to bill."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15982252)



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Date: September 6th, 2010 2:42 PM
Author: burgundy pea-brained state love of her life

Billable expectations 80% higher, chance of making partner 80% lower.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15978680)



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Date: September 6th, 2010 2:44 PM
Author: Pale Dead Athletic Conference Lodge

The fact that all the research is available on the computer means that retards can do it pretty easily and a large portion of the intellectual aspect of the profession is dead. This results in a lot more mindless paper pushing to bill sufficient hours.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15978694)



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Date: September 6th, 2010 2:51 PM
Author: Frozen house-broken church striped hyena

i thought about this the other day as i did a control+F on a couple hundred pages of statutes. 30 years ago that would've been a days worth of work.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15978745)



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Date: September 6th, 2010 2:46 PM
Author: Stubborn Azn

everything sucks compared to our fathers' generation. we work 10X harder and the world has become a fucking AIDS-ridden shithole.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15978710)



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Date: September 6th, 2010 2:49 PM
Author: pink concupiscible stead

seems like old school lawyers did way less work, they just knew how to do shit and didn't worry about putting 50 hours of research into something stupid

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15978733)



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Date: September 6th, 2010 3:24 PM
Author: Laughsome jew

more hours, e-discovery.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15978960)



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Date: September 6th, 2010 3:27 PM
Author: Hairraiser jade corn cake

40% more hours, 30% less pay when you take into account inflation (outside of biglaw)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15978977)



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Date: September 6th, 2010 3:30 PM
Author: vengeful mildly autistic dog poop base

it's far less congenial from what i hear.

if you were a lawyer in the 1950's or something, you actually belonged to a professional guild, and you and your fellow lawyers acted like respected professional men-about-town.

that means you got together with the other lawyers for drinks all the time.

a long lunch with plenty of booze was just another way to build some camaraderie.

the work was often tedious, and unsuccessful solos had a really rough time (then as now), but the whole legal industry was much more genteel and respectable in a lot of ways.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15978998)



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Date: September 6th, 2010 9:28 PM
Author: topaz nofapping theater

Back in the day, people thought the law was a source of independent knowledge. Now we know that it's really just the creation of a bunch of people who really should understand economics a lot better than they do.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15982233)



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Date: September 6th, 2010 9:40 PM
Author: black talented pozpig

Laws are meant to control people, and lawyers are just minions that usurp wealth and feed the bureaucracy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15982323)



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Date: September 6th, 2010 9:50 PM
Author: coiffed maroon roast beef reading party

the laity caught on to the bill-by-the-hour scam and now want to pay by the project.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15982403)