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Why does this board bitch so much about big law?

people at TTTs are literally dying to get these jobs...why d...
claret university messiness
  01/21/15
people at TTTs don't have firsthand experience of or know an...
poppy set
  01/21/15
this, plus people at TTT aren't high iq and couldnt have gon...
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  01/21/15
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  01/21/15
And it's relative to what our peers/friends are doing v. the...
drab motley bbw
  01/21/15
yeah but then you couldn't have gotten away with being a pol...
Burgundy Mildly Autistic Senate National Security Agency
  01/21/15
i'm a ivy stem. even worse.
Outnumbered Indian Lodge Electric Furnace
  01/21/15
lol ya you fucked up man. iirc you're not even in patent/IP ...
Burgundy Mildly Autistic Senate National Security Agency
  01/21/15
i do a fair amount of patent. hate it. it's so much worse th...
Outnumbered Indian Lodge Electric Furnace
  01/21/15
whats ivy stem?
Brindle judgmental fanboi
  01/21/15
it stole are lives
bronze razzmatazz doctorate
  01/21/15
because they're whiny faggots who haven't worked a day in th...
Burgundy Mildly Autistic Senate National Security Agency
  01/21/15
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salmon heady windowlicker circlehead
  01/21/15
Six year biglaw bro here, now off to the promised land of in...
Dun Legend Laser Beams
  01/21/15
scholarship
Razzle station son of senegal
  01/21/15
I recently fucked a married woman from Turkmenestein in her ...
useless haunting kitchen goyim
  01/21/15
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Harsh Clown Area
  01/21/15
Ppl are not flaming when they bitch about BIGLAW. Face it a ...
Contagious ruby piazza
  01/21/15
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Burgundy Mildly Autistic Senate National Security Agency
  01/21/15
there's a reason 3rd & 4th year associates who still hav...
bronze razzmatazz doctorate
  01/21/15
It literally sucks your soul out. you start having health an...
Contagious ruby piazza
  01/21/15
No no it's clear you just haven't worked a day in your life....
Concupiscible partner
  01/21/15
*in 2 years in BIGLAW will be sticking pencils up his ass to...
Contagious ruby piazza
  01/21/15
CR. Take a step back and try to imagine how bad a job has to...
Azure titillating pit
  01/21/15
Everything is relative. But i've always hated the "oth...
Brindle judgmental fanboi
  01/21/15
varies greatly from firm to firm and group to group. stay o...
useless haunting kitchen goyim
  01/21/15
I wasn't in NYC, so I've had other jobs where I had to work ...
ruddy party of the first part
  01/21/15
It's all that but the unpredictability and inability to plan...
drab motley bbw
  01/21/15
lol if you think all big law firms remotely resemble your ex...
useless haunting kitchen goyim
  01/21/15
They all look the same to rising 2Ls at OCI, other than Crav...
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  01/21/15
the "shit" at the other end (or close to it) allow...
useless haunting kitchen goyim
  01/21/15
In hindsight, I'm not disagreeing. But I really must have i...
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  01/21/15
does it pay NYC market? because the unpredictability he d...
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  01/21/15
yes it pays NYC market. it is an ALM 75-100 firm.
useless haunting kitchen goyim
  01/21/15
His experience is more typical of v10/NYC/striver associate ...
ruddy party of the first part
  01/21/15
It is insane. I am at a MFH biglaw firm with a bad reputatio...
irate fishy idea he suggested ticket booth
  01/21/15
There's always shitty anecdotes or crazy times, like before ...
useless haunting kitchen goyim
  01/21/15
YOUR welcome
Cheese-eating nursing home therapy
  01/21/15
Guessing it's a combination of hours and boring work. Thankf...
Bespoke trip parlour prole
  01/21/15
yea i think ultimately a job is tolerable/enjoyable if it is...
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Date: January 21st, 2015 3:20 PM
Author: claret university messiness

people at TTTs are literally dying to get these jobs...why does board bitch so much?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159006)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 3:21 PM
Author: poppy set

people at TTTs don't have firsthand experience of or know anyone who has worked in biglaw.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159011)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 3:41 PM
Author: Outnumbered Indian Lodge Electric Furnace

this, plus people at TTT aren't high iq and couldnt have gone into better fields.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159119)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 3:45 PM
Author: drab motley bbw



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159144)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 3:45 PM
Author: drab motley bbw

And it's relative to what our peers/friends are doing v. theirs. I don't compare my life to true shitlaw, bank tellers, or flyover office drones. In comparison to PhDs, engineers, doctors, dentists, finance, startup bros, nonprofits, people whose jobs seem to be travelling, F500 management programs, etc., it's conceivable that I could have made some better choices in college.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159142)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 3:50 PM
Author: Burgundy Mildly Autistic Senate National Security Agency

yeah but then you couldn't have gotten away with being a polisci shithead in UG and would have had to grind away in premed/STEM/finance recruiting

so really, they're not your peers. law school is for people with 0 marketable skills at the end of UG

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159179)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 4:01 PM
Author: Outnumbered Indian Lodge Electric Furnace

i'm a ivy stem. even worse.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159242)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 4:02 PM
Author: Burgundy Mildly Autistic Senate National Security Agency

lol ya you fucked up man. iirc you're not even in patent/IP work. so damn, why tf did you end up in lawl school?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159251)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 4:59 PM
Author: Outnumbered Indian Lodge Electric Furnace

i do a fair amount of patent. hate it. it's so much worse than gen lit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159619)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 4:19 PM
Author: Brindle judgmental fanboi

whats ivy stem?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159350)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 3:21 PM
Author: bronze razzmatazz doctorate

it stole are lives

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159010)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 3:22 PM
Author: Burgundy Mildly Autistic Senate National Security Agency

because they're whiny faggots who haven't worked a day in their life until they got to biglawl. wahhhh i have to work 60 hours a week for my 200k salary despite having 0 marketable skills.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159015)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 3:37 PM
Author: salmon heady windowlicker circlehead



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159100)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 3:37 PM
Author: Dun Legend Laser Beams

Six year biglaw bro here, now off to the promised land of inhouse.

I bitched about biglaw when I was there, and I've bitched about it here too. There are parts of it that are truly 120. If you've read this board, I presume you're familiar with the complaints. Now, objectively speaking, biglaw associates have it pretty good-- none of them would trade to work the same hours in worse conditions as shitlaw lawyers. But it's equally true that shitlaw lawyers objectively have it pretty good too-- none of them would trade to work 80 hours as a cook at a MFH restaurant and clear $30k. But it's equally true that restaurant cooks have it pretty good... etc. and this chain of logic leads you all the way until you get to the poorest person in the world and nobody can complain except peasants in Turkmenistan.

There's nothing wrong with commiserating with similarly situated people-- it's probably the most emotionally healthy thing the average XO'er does.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159094)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 3:42 PM
Author: Razzle station son of senegal

scholarship

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159126)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 3:43 PM
Author: useless haunting kitchen goyim

I recently fucked a married woman from Turkmenestein in her ass. Prestigious?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159130)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 4:20 PM
Author: Harsh Clown Area



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159359)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 3:46 PM
Author: Contagious ruby piazza

Ppl are not flaming when they bitch about BIGLAW. Face it a TTT LS wants BIGLAW cause he has no other options to make money. Hell even a t14 student is in the same boat. We are all brainwashed that this is the only honorable way to practice law and make money. It's insane.

BIGLAW is inhuman. It is a horrible profession. The neverending quest to bill more hours is bullshit. The work is boring. You aren't even practicing law. The other ppl are like prison wardens and slaves, they have lost all sense of humanity cause of years of BIGLAW toil.

Face it, lawyers are risk adverse shit. Engineers and CS fucks are anti social fucks too but tehy don't put up with this shit. They try to start businesses and innovate even dorks from fucking India do.

The entire profession is shit. Now that I am solo I realize its all fraud and lies. Fuck kikes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159150)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 3:52 PM
Author: Burgundy Mildly Autistic Senate National Security Agency



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159188)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 3:55 PM
Author: bronze razzmatazz doctorate

there's a reason 3rd & 4th year associates who still have 6-figure student debt straight up walk away from biglaw. it's a horrible way to spend our limited youthful years on earth. yes there are worse jobs but biglaw is total shit & kills you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159206)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 4:00 PM
Author: Contagious ruby piazza

It literally sucks your soul out. you start having health and mental problems cause of it. It becomes the only focus of your life, and it is not even practicing life that is the focus. Its billing endless hours so kikes can make more money. It is pathetic and shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159236)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 4:11 PM
Author: Concupiscible partner

No no it's clear you just haven't worked a day in your life.

(2L desperately convincing self that everybody just has it wrong re biglaw)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159307)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 4:11 PM
Author: Contagious ruby piazza

*in 2 years in BIGLAW will be sticking pencils up his ass to distract from BIGLAW pain

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159310)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 4:30 PM
Author: Azure titillating pit

CR. Take a step back and try to imagine how bad a job has to be to make a 28 year old with 100,000 dollars of debt walk away from a job that pays 190,000 for something paying less than half that or maybe with nothing lined up at all.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159431)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 3:49 PM
Author: Brindle judgmental fanboi

Everything is relative. But i've always hated the "other people would kill for that job" line. Gotta be true to your own self, bro. If it isnt for you, it isn't for you. Basically what your saying is that your job is prestigious so you should like it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159173)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 3:53 PM
Author: useless haunting kitchen goyim

varies greatly from firm to firm and group to group. stay out of NYC and the V20 and you are more likely to work for some chill all-american bro's who will cut you some slack.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159200)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 3:55 PM
Author: ruddy party of the first part

I wasn't in NYC, so I've had other jobs where I had to work as much as I worked in biglaw, save like the six worst weeks I had in 3.5 years. It's not the difficulty or volume of work by itself; it's the personalities and the culture, which is a product of a fundamentally fucktarded ownership structure and now a severely wounded business model. What's maddening is the baseline level of stress, which is mainly caused by everyone constantly worrying that they will be stabbed in the back with the slightest bit of pretext. The closest this bort comes to describing it is ONE|WRONG|MOVE.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159204)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 4:05 PM
Author: drab motley bbw

It's all that but the unpredictability and inability to plan, too. Even if you work for people who are toward the nice side, there are still emergencies, they just say "sorry" somewhere in the email that tells you to cancel something (while you're junior enough to think that you can still make plans).

I don't even bother trying to make plans on a weeknight now or Friday before 8. Concerts, games, etc. -- it's a few times/year thing, including anniversary and wife's birthday, otherwise it's just not worth the stress of knowing that there's a significant chance that I'll be unacceptably late or have to cancel altogether.

Nothing is sacred: Weekend morning calls, kick-off calls on Sunday afternoons, ridiculous times to accommodate clients in Asia or Europe, etc.

You have to have an incredibly supportive and flexible gf/wife to make it work.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159265)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 4:09 PM
Author: useless haunting kitchen goyim

lol if you think all big law firms remotely resemble your experience. at my firm the average associate bills like 1850 hours/year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159295)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 4:12 PM
Author: drab motley bbw

They all look the same to rising 2Ls at OCI, other than Cravath and Wachtell and then the obvious shit at the other end that couldn't even fill their interview spots (this was pre-ITE).

The other thing that I didn't fully appreciate was the lifestyle difference of going into a service area v. being an M&A/CapMkts/Corp bitch.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159316)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 4:54 PM
Author: useless haunting kitchen goyim

the "shit" at the other end (or close to it) allows for a much better life.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159595)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 4:58 PM
Author: drab motley bbw

In hindsight, I'm not disagreeing. But I really must have impressed some people at the airport with that firm name on my laptop bag.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159613)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 4:16 PM
Author: Duck-like White Reading Party Roast Beef

does it pay NYC market?

because the unpredictability he describes is very real. And i also don't like making weekday plans because of the stress of worrying about making it out.

There is such a divergence between the dread of getting that "new deal" email on saturday afternoon and partner's gleeful reply to the client that we can speak sunday am at 9am.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159333)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 4:51 PM
Author: useless haunting kitchen goyim

yes it pays NYC market. it is an ALM 75-100 firm.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159576)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 4:20 PM
Author: ruddy party of the first part

His experience is more typical of v10/NYC/striver associate they're trying to burn out. Since I was never particularly "well regarded" I didn't get pwn3d like that all the time, but I think the vast majority of people who spend any amount of time in biglaw have at least a couple stories along those lines. It's also pretty demotivational to see the associate who they clearly love getting his life totally ruined. I was pretty close with several guys who were the golden boys staffed as lead bitch on every deal for the big rainmaker partners. They were miserable and complained all the time about how they were never going to have time to meet a girl and date seriously. Even if they happened to meet someone the one stray night every three weeks that they didn't work they would never have a chance to sustain it enough that it could turn into something serious. This made mediocrities like me happy that we weren't doing better in the eyes of the higher ups, which is just perverse.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159354)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 4:43 PM
Author: irate fishy idea he suggested ticket booth

It is insane. I am at a MFH biglaw firm with a bad reputation but I am not well regarded and do not regularly get shit on like the all star associates my class year. I could probably play this out 2 more years before copping regional biglaw in my home market.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159521)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 4:53 PM
Author: useless haunting kitchen goyim

There's always shitty anecdotes or crazy times, like before a dispositive filing or ramping up for trial/arbitration. Litigation is much more predictable re: hours than deal-making.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159588)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 4:30 PM
Author: Cheese-eating nursing home therapy

YOUR welcome

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27159424)



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Date: January 21st, 2015 10:17 PM
Author: Bespoke trip parlour prole

Guessing it's a combination of hours and boring work. Thankfully both vary by practice group and firm. I worked 9-7:00 (no weekends) before law school and don't find biglaw to be much worse, aside from the occasional late night or working weekend. And the work is actually far more interesting, though my experience may not be representative of the experiences of my peers, even in the same group.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27161547)



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Date: January 22nd, 2015 9:33 AM
Author: Brindle judgmental fanboi

yea i think ultimately a job is tolerable/enjoyable if it is: 1) boring but low stress so fuck it; or 2) stressful but interesting/rewarding so worth the dedication and sacrifice. To me, big law is the perfect shit storm of boring and stressful, and the result is really tough to deal with day in and day out, with no end/exit ops in sight.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2788160&forum_id=2#27163405)