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biglaw attorneys: can you keep alcohol openly displayed in decanter at office?

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disturbing narrow-minded newt step-uncle's house
  01/20/18
Uhhhhhhh I’ve had a bottle of jack on my bookshelf for the p...
Boyish Home
  01/20/18
How often are people in/out of your space?
disturbing narrow-minded newt step-uncle's house
  01/20/18
I am located on a well traversed part of the office
Boyish Home
  01/20/18
handicapped shitter?
trip orchestra pit
  01/20/18
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Boyish Home
  01/20/18
only if you're "partner"
diverse mustard prole stage
  01/20/18
no but in court you can wear those helmets with beer cans on...
trip orchestra pit
  01/20/18
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Smoky tanning salon
  01/20/18
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diverse mustard prole stage
  01/20/18
Guy who thinks biglawyers see a courtroom
Razzmatazz senate shitlib
  01/20/18
why would you
Soggy Indian Lodge Double Fault
  01/20/18
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Cyan Floppy Alpha Trailer Park
  01/21/18
Our firm has an express policy that you're only allowed to c...
Indigo Hospital
  01/20/18
everybody keeps a bottle of beam and dixie cups in their bot...
trip orchestra pit
  01/20/18
OP wasn't asking about sneaking booze - he was asking about ...
Indigo Hospital
  01/20/18
you don't have empties from the craft beer place pyramaided ...
trip orchestra pit
  01/20/18
I don't think anyone would mind
Slimy field rigor
  01/20/18
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disturbing narrow-minded newt step-uncle's house
  01/20/18
It is going to be pretentious as fuck if you have a bottle o...
Indigo Hospital
  01/20/18
that's what i figured. how often do people day (or evening) ...
disturbing narrow-minded newt step-uncle's house
  01/20/18
lol
excitant temple
  01/21/18
Oh Jesus, don't do this
Slimy field rigor
  01/20/18
i'm a lawyer-dentist-general, ret.
trip orchestra pit
  01/20/18
I used to start drinking at 3pm in biglaw when the adderal w...
Razzmatazz senate shitlib
  01/20/18
just do the coke like a real lawyer.
trip orchestra pit
  01/20/18
Coke when leaving the office to manufacture some euphoria. I...
Razzmatazz senate shitlib
  01/20/18
everytime a door slams shut you think it's the cops called t...
trip orchestra pit
  01/20/18
Can barely jerk off (still jerk off for 4 hrs and wonderment...
Razzmatazz senate shitlib
  01/20/18
i know it's time to go on a coke hiatus when my cock bleeds ...
trip orchestra pit
  01/20/18
When I was fedclerking I got talked to by the Clerk of the C...
Adventurous White Stag Film
  01/20/18
yeah like how 7/11 has signs "no consuming beer within ...
trip orchestra pit
  01/20/18
Yeah pretty much. I was genuinely surprised at how gay they...
Adventurous White Stag Film
  01/20/18
surprised your judge was OK w/ it. my interaction w/ him was...
disturbing narrow-minded newt step-uncle's house
  01/20/18
Everyone in my office has these. It’s nbd.
dull racy rehab
  01/20/18
I kept the bottles hidden, but did keep a bottle of single m...
Primrose flirting stead
  01/21/18
I had a nice bottle of scotch from a vendor that I left on a...
Odious Mental Disorder Cumskin
  01/21/18
? It’s obligatory.
splenetic french chef
  01/21/18
Most of the associates in my office bring a case of Keystone...
Sickened curious university
  01/21/18
Pretty common for associates to have a bottle of scotch in t...
cobalt abode
  01/21/18
Kept a bottle of bourbon on bookshelf as a mid-level associa...
Claret blood rage
  01/21/18
Have only seen an occasional partner with liquor in their of...
exciting brunch
  01/21/18
Nobody gives a shit and everybody is an alcoholic. Have you ...
zippy wine center national security agency
  01/22/18


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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:15 PM
Author: disturbing narrow-minded newt step-uncle's house



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:50 PM
Author: Boyish Home

Uhhhhhhh I’ve had a bottle of jack on my bookshelf for the past couple years and haven’t talked to HR yet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199210)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:55 PM
Author: disturbing narrow-minded newt step-uncle's house

How often are people in/out of your space?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199246)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:56 PM
Author: Boyish Home

I am located on a well traversed part of the office

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199267)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:57 PM
Author: trip orchestra pit

handicapped shitter?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199271)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:57 PM
Author: Boyish Home



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:50 PM
Author: diverse mustard prole stage

only if you're "partner"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199212)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:51 PM
Author: trip orchestra pit

no but in court you can wear those helmets with beer cans on the side.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199219)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:52 PM
Author: Smoky tanning salon



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:56 PM
Author: diverse mustard prole stage



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:59 PM
Author: Razzmatazz senate shitlib

Guy who thinks biglawyers see a courtroom

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199283)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:51 PM
Author: Soggy Indian Lodge Double Fault

why would you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199223)



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Date: January 21st, 2018 10:28 AM
Author: Cyan Floppy Alpha Trailer Park



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:53 PM
Author: Indigo Hospital

Our firm has an express policy that you're only allowed to consume firm-provided alcohol in the office (e.g. attorney happy hours and other firm functions). Nevertheless, there is a partner on my floor with a bar cart with a variety of liquors, etc. I've never seen an associate or counsel do anything more than have an unopened bottle of wine on their desk from a xmas gift they haven't taken home yet.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199235)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:54 PM
Author: trip orchestra pit

everybody keeps a bottle of beam and dixie cups in their bottom drawer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199240)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:55 PM
Author: Indigo Hospital

OP wasn't asking about sneaking booze - he was asking about open displays

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199250)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:56 PM
Author: trip orchestra pit

you don't have empties from the craft beer place pyramaided over your bookshelf?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199262)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:56 PM
Author: Slimy field rigor

I don't think anyone would mind

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199257)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 7:58 PM
Author: disturbing narrow-minded newt step-uncle's house



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199276)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:00 PM
Author: Indigo Hospital

It is going to be pretentious as fuck if you have a bottle of scotch sitting in a decanter on display. Don't be that guy. If you really want to have a snort now and then, just keep a bottle in your desk.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199290)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:06 PM
Author: disturbing narrow-minded newt step-uncle's house

that's what i figured. how often do people day (or evening) drink in biglaw?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199339)



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Date: January 21st, 2018 11:13 AM
Author: excitant temple

lol

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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:01 PM
Author: Slimy field rigor

Oh Jesus, don't do this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199295)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:01 PM
Author: trip orchestra pit

i'm a lawyer-dentist-general, ret.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199299)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:00 PM
Author: Razzmatazz senate shitlib

I used to start drinking at 3pm in biglaw when the adderal was wearing off. Would be tabled by 7pm bad keep working through dinner.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199293)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:01 PM
Author: trip orchestra pit

just do the coke like a real lawyer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199296)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:03 PM
Author: Razzmatazz senate shitlib

Coke when leaving the office to manufacture some euphoria. It’s too inconsistent and euphoric to deal with the horror of 19 biglaw emails coming in a minute while simultaneously turning a partners illegible edits to a motion 1 hr beforehand it needs to be filed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199308)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:05 PM
Author: trip orchestra pit

everytime a door slams shut you think it's the cops called to make an example of you by some service partner. your jaw clenches, you can barely jerk off, grabbing your glock tightly to go out in a blaze of glory.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199322)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:06 PM
Author: Razzmatazz senate shitlib

Can barely jerk off (still jerk off for 4 hrs and wonderment where the time went) jfc I don’t miss biglaw, or adderal. Miss coke a little.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199337)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:08 PM
Author: trip orchestra pit

i know it's time to go on a coke hiatus when my cock bleeds and peels like a baby snake upgrading.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199349)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:03 PM
Author: Adventurous White Stag Film

When I was fedclerking I got talked to by the Clerk of the Court personally about a fucking bottle of cheap glenfiddich that I happened to leave out on my desk after working late one night. They told my judge and everything, but he didn't care and I actually think it helped me with him long term.

But anyway, just so you know: there are apparently federal regs that prohibit the consumption of alcohol on premises.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199305)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:03 PM
Author: trip orchestra pit

yeah like how 7/11 has signs "no consuming beer within 500 feet."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199314)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:05 PM
Author: Adventurous White Stag Film

Yeah pretty much. I was genuinely surprised at how gay they were about it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199324)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:24 PM
Author: disturbing narrow-minded newt step-uncle's house

surprised your judge was OK w/ it. my interaction w/ him was negative (we've talked about this elsewhere iirc)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199469)



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Date: January 20th, 2018 8:42 PM
Author: dull racy rehab

Everyone in my office has these. It’s nbd.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35199599)



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Date: January 21st, 2018 10:13 AM
Author: Primrose flirting stead

I kept the bottles hidden, but did keep a bottle of single malt in its canister displayed for a number of years (gift from client)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35202010)



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Date: January 21st, 2018 10:18 AM
Author: Odious Mental Disorder Cumskin

I had a nice bottle of scotch from a vendor that I left on an office shelf. Nbd

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35202021)



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Date: January 21st, 2018 10:26 AM
Author: splenetic french chef

? It’s obligatory.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35202055)



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Date: January 21st, 2018 10:59 AM
Author: Sickened curious university

Most of the associates in my office bring a case of Keystone light and a Yeti cooler to work on Fridays. Partners don't like it but they deal with it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35202231)



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Date: January 21st, 2018 11:08 AM
Author: cobalt abode

Pretty common for associates to have a bottle of scotch in the desk, usually broken out for a late night drink with fellow associates or a "chill" junior partner after finishing some big task (I'm a litigator, so usually filing a big brief at midnight or something like that). Don't know anyone with openly displayed alcohol though except for one older partner. Would be weird at my firm for a junior associate to have a bottle on the shelf like some kind of college dorm shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35202283)



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Date: January 21st, 2018 11:11 AM
Author: Claret blood rage

Kept a bottle of bourbon on bookshelf as a mid-level associate. Partners would high five when they noticed it got drained because that meant we were in there late at some point. In current form probably half of the offices have a bottle of liquor out in the open

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35202300)



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Date: January 21st, 2018 11:45 PM
Author: exciting brunch

Have only seen an occasional partner with liquor in their office.

One rainmaker used to get sloshed daily but he brought in so much business no one cared.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35207179)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 2:04 AM
Author: zippy wine center national security agency

Nobody gives a shit and everybody is an alcoholic. Have you ever stayed too late at a biglaw Christmas party?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3865801&forum_id=2#35207623)