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People who stay in BIGLAW are mentally ill.. true or true?
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Date: February 12th, 2013 1:22 PM Author: Rusted Market I think this is basically true in 99% of cases. People who stay invariabley are assholes with no hobbies, or the types that can be easily manipulated into putting up with all that shit.
Anyone who values their life doesn't stay more than 5 years or even 3 years nowadays.
Truth niggas. |
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Date: February 12th, 2013 1:25 PM Author: Chocolate Cuck Sanctuary Well I have a very small sample size to work with. I only know 3 people personally and quite well that have made it to year 5 and beyond.
What all 3 have in common is they have the ability to put up with a ton of shit. |
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Date: February 12th, 2013 1:26 PM Author: Rusted Market yea mentally ill and risk adverse to the extreme (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#22622852) |
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Date: January 8th, 2015 11:08 AM Author: Appetizing Swollen Mad Cow Disease Jap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#27078996) |
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Date: February 12th, 2013 1:27 PM Author: Vibrant indirect expression point I've known a few married dudes with kids that last that long, and don't fit this description. I think they are mostly trying to avoid their family.
For single people, I think you are right. |
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Date: February 12th, 2013 1:29 PM Author: Chocolate Cuck Sanctuary I wonder about the 3 peeps I know. They are all at V20. One of them is in Litigation, and seems fairly happy, so I am not surprised he stays.
The other 2 are in Corporate and hate their lives. No idea why they haven't at least lateralled or gone in-house |
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Date: February 12th, 2013 1:30 PM Author: Rusted Market lol fag, tehre are no lateral or inhosue jobs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#22622864) |
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Date: February 12th, 2013 1:31 PM Author: Chocolate Cuck Sanctuary Must suck for them then. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#22622868) |
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Date: February 12th, 2013 1:32 PM Author: Rusted Market i know lots of doods who are still in BIGLAW, even at same firm, just casue last 4 years its been fucking impossible to move even if u have good credentials (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#22622878) |
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Date: January 8th, 2015 11:08 AM Author: Appetizing Swollen Mad Cow Disease Jap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#27078997) |
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Date: February 12th, 2013 1:29 PM Author: Rusted Market most married guys have no choice cause they have a mortgage and a bitch fat white spending their money so they just become even mroe risk adverse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#22622860) |
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Date: February 12th, 2013 1:32 PM Author: Violet Marvelous Address New Version TRUE (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#22622874) |
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Date: February 12th, 2013 3:01 PM Author: Fear-inspiring patrolman native Basically yes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#22623375) |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 12:57 AM Author: ocher institution clown Once you get to year five, there's no reason to quit. If you're not gunning for partner, you know you're on borrowed time anyway. Do the minimum amount of work to get your bonus, stop caring, and stick around until they kick you out. No stress, because you're expecting it eventually. At some firms, you can make it well past year 5 like that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#22628593) |
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Date: January 8th, 2015 11:09 AM Author: Appetizing Swollen Mad Cow Disease Jap the type of person who does this shit for 5 years is not the type of person to flick a switch in their brain and start slacking. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#27078998) |
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Date: January 8th, 2015 2:34 PM Author: massive odious cuckold (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#27080111) |
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Date: January 8th, 2015 11:27 AM Author: Clear High-end Dysfunction Being fired from biglaw is like death. There is a tremendous jump from a "good" exit job and what you can get after you are fired. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#27079083) |
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Date: January 8th, 2015 11:28 AM Author: Appetizing Swollen Mad Cow Disease Jap nah its like heaven. 3 months paid vacay, join a new firm and let it do what it do. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#27079089) |
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Date: January 8th, 2015 11:30 AM Author: Vibrant indirect expression point Depends on a ton of factors, but this generally sounds like extreme risk averse sensationalism. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#27079105) |
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Date: January 8th, 2015 11:31 AM Author: Appetizing Swollen Mad Cow Disease Jap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#27079107) |
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Date: January 12th, 2015 1:42 PM Author: lake masturbator double fault cr. people get fired all the time and just let do. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#27102975) |
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Date: January 8th, 2015 11:04 AM Author: impressive magenta school cafeteria travel guidebook Yes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#27078976) |
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Date: January 8th, 2015 2:42 PM Author: bateful honey-headed menage selfie it sux (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#27080149) |
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Date: January 8th, 2015 2:42 PM Author: bat-shit-crazy puce kitchen legend Biglaw is fine. You would work hard in whatever line of work you're in. Biglaw pays decent salary and can lead to more interesting things if so inclined. Don't tolerate awful personalities, demonstrate mastery and initiative and people will not really hassle you. Every business has customers that get undue respect and deference. People pointing the finger at biglaw need to look inside at themselves (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#27080150) |
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Date: January 10th, 2015 12:22 AM Author: Rusted Market Nope, BIGLAW cause of billables and Jews is truly fucking HORRID compared to even other shitty professions. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#27090036) |
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Date: January 11th, 2015 8:03 PM Author: bat-shit-crazy puce kitchen legend If you are any good and accept the work, you will be up to your eyeballs in billables. No one will question your work.
Don't understand the jew comment - anyone who is going to have success in biglaw will be anal retentive and push for every advantage, jew or not. |
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Date: January 11th, 2015 8:00 PM Author: Hyperactive Parlour Messiness strangely incisive poast for colt. i think you used the wrong moniker here, breh. but you're 100% right. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#27098970) |
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Date: January 12th, 2015 1:35 PM Author: bat-shit-crazy puce kitchen legend Lol wtf (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#27102950) |
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Date: January 9th, 2015 11:33 PM Author: motley bossy stage Honestly the problem is trying to generalize "biglaw" as being one way or another. I've worked at three major firms, and my experience at each was markedly different (mostly for the better, fortunately). Also completely depends on the partners you're working for. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#27089792) |
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Date: January 11th, 2015 7:56 PM Author: Hyperactive Parlour Messiness Your first point is certainly true, if for no other reason than that there's MFH Biglaw, and Non-MFH Biglaw, and those two things have surprisingly little in common.
Ultimately, your 2nd point is probably most important. Find a decent group of partners to work with and life will be ok. |
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Date: January 12th, 2015 2:00 AM Author: motley bossy stage As to the first part, what I've found is that the most important factor is the firm's core clients. Some clients will essentially accept what you send them with only minor changes, whereas others demand massive revisions on a very tight timeline. Working for decent partners can help when you have a difficult client, but your lifestyle is still going to suffer.
The thing is, I've working for enormous corporations that have fallen into the first category, and high net-worth individuals who have fallen into the second. There's no real way for a 2L to tell during interviews which firms have the easiest clients, but after you've been in the industry for a while, you start to figure it out. |
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Date: January 9th, 2015 11:40 PM Author: hideous pea-brained affirmative action sweet tailpipe Either mentally ill or too tied down to their jobs cause they have 2+ kids in a high COL and wife doesn't work. Mentally ill means addicted to work, can't think outside of the box, or thinks that the $$$ is the only thing that matters in life, or all of the above.
I know someone who just developed multiple sclerosis cause he was working so much in biglaw - pretty sure he is mentally ill though. |
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Date: January 11th, 2015 7:57 PM Author: Dull bawdyhouse i lasted 6 years
i remained a normal dude but i would get super stressed about work to the point that like a year after going in-house i still have nightmares about biglaw |
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Date: January 11th, 2015 8:05 PM Author: insanely creepy balding piazza idea he suggested lol tommy turdboy you never worked at biglaw (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#27098989) |
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Date: January 12th, 2015 1:30 PM Author: stirring khaki indian lodge deer antler normal, well adjusted ppl with RESILIENCE (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2182361&forum_id=2#27102932) |
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