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Midlaw partner making ~500k/yr. what do with life? litigation is fucking awful

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bearded balding headpube clown
  03/18/18
months of the year away from family.
bearded balding headpube clown
  03/18/18
solo
Dashing Striped Hyena
  03/18/18
retire early
Cobalt stage yarmulke
  03/18/18
my wife is legit happy that i am "partner" at an &...
bearded balding headpube clown
  03/18/18
500k a year is amazing money man you cant and shouldnt leave
maroon duck-like trailer park
  03/18/18
LOL, you realize you have one life, and you're going to spen...
maniacal shimmering black woman house
  03/18/18
also just made partner last year.
bearded balding headpube clown
  03/18/18
I know a guy who squirreled away ca$h for 4 years as a bigla...
Appetizing property
  03/18/18
180 for that bro.
Effete boistinker
  03/18/18
I think his wife has a Nutella-esque job though
Appetizing property
  03/18/18
i have dat lure of senior partner telling me i will inherit ...
bearded balding headpube clown
  03/18/18
If big money isn't making you happy now what makes you think...
Effete boistinker
  03/18/18
500k isnt big money. i live in a modest house in a high COL...
bearded balding headpube clown
  03/18/18
No one to blame but yourself faggot. A partner who doesn ta...
Massive Incel Shrine
  03/18/18
work is delegated as much as possible. every associate in g...
bearded balding headpube clown
  03/18/18
Dumb flame. Groups don’t get that busy in “midlaw,” and no...
Massive Incel Shrine
  03/18/18
ok technically we are "biglaw" but my firm is not ...
bearded balding headpube clown
  03/18/18
More dumb flame. No junior partner moves with ten attorneys...
Massive Incel Shrine
  03/18/18
i am an exception to the rule. my last firm went out of b...
bearded balding headpube clown
  03/18/18
It literally makes no sense to “recruit” a non rainmaker par...
Massive Incel Shrine
  03/18/18
three years ago i was recruited as an associate in a group w...
bearded balding headpube clown
  03/18/18
This story sounds like utter and complete flame
salmon nibblets
  03/18/18
not sure how i can prove it to you without completely outing...
bearded balding headpube clown
  03/18/18
can i cop a jerb then?
salmon nibblets
  03/18/18
are you in NYC? what undergrad degree do you have? what ye...
bearded balding headpube clown
  03/18/18
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bearded balding headpube clown
  03/18/18
not in NYC, practice at lit boutique in another jurisdiction...
salmon nibblets
  03/18/18
How's troutman sanders like?
salmon nibblets
  03/18/18
ok lets just say that for now. that works as a substitute.
bearded balding headpube clown
  03/18/18
The fact that it isn't common for biglaw partners to stash a...
Laughsome hateful home hominid
  03/18/18
this was my first year. i stashed ~150k.
bearded balding headpube clown
  03/18/18
I think that's pretty respectable given your take home. If ...
Laughsome hateful home hominid
  03/18/18
they only pick people who they know are obsessed with hordin...
autistic garrison
  03/18/18
I think it's a sunk cost thing. you've given up everything ...
Appetizing property
  03/18/18
Doubt I'll ever know personally, I don't think I'm a parters...
Laughsome hateful home hominid
  03/18/18
before i had the "goal" of making partner in front...
bearded balding headpube clown
  03/18/18
yeah that's our life until we die. :)))
Appetizing property
  03/18/18
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motley wine pit skinny woman
  03/18/18
save as much as possible and plow it into index equity funds...
Erotic theatre
  03/18/18
Woah
Blue Double Fault Mad Cow Disease
  03/18/18
wife is also a lawyer and would not be fooled.
bearded balding headpube clown
  03/18/18
Then she probably recognizes that LAW = SHIT, right? Would s...
Dashing Striped Hyena
  03/18/18
GET BACK IN
Laughsome hateful home hominid
  03/18/18
*tamps pipe* ahhh, now we come to zee root your problems
Appetizing property
  03/18/18
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Dashing Striped Hyena
  03/18/18
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Frum Turdskin
  03/18/18
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autistic garrison
  03/18/18
Your wife is a lawyer and would be disappointed for you to l...
Exhilarant Dingle Berry Field
  03/18/18
Doggie Suicide absolutely destroyed OP
salmon nibblets
  03/18/18
all he did was call me flame. thats not "destroyed&quo...
bearded balding headpube clown
  03/18/18
He proved you were flame and don’t even know enough about la...
salmon nibblets
  03/18/18
brother i really wish it were flame. my biglaw story sounds...
bearded balding headpube clown
  03/18/18
Have you tried moar litigation?
comical copper place of business indian lodge
  03/18/18
Write a rhyme and ride a bike and try to live carefree. Hop...
Talented painfully honest reading party mood
  03/18/18
Fellow law partner here. Why not just travel 75% of the year...
Titillating carmine lay pozpig
  03/18/18
dude, RSF, cmon. (1) I'm married with kids and very happy w...
bearded balding headpube clown
  03/18/18
why not 9-5 500k in house?
misunderstood henna love of her life round eye
  03/18/18
thats what id like to know.
bearded balding headpube clown
  03/18/18


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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:06 PM
Author: bearded balding headpube clown



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631052)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:08 PM
Author: bearded balding headpube clown

months of the year away from family.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631061)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:11 PM
Author: Dashing Striped Hyena

solo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631075)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:12 PM
Author: Cobalt stage yarmulke

retire early

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631081)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:13 PM
Author: bearded balding headpube clown

my wife is legit happy that i am "partner" at an "international" law firm.

i would lose social status in her eyes by going solo. also i don't think i could do the same large-company country-wide lawsuits as a solo.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631087)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:14 PM
Author: maroon duck-like trailer park

500k a year is amazing money man you cant and shouldnt leave

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631091)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 2:14 PM
Author: maniacal shimmering black woman house

LOL, you realize you have one life, and you're going to spend it worrying about what your wife thinks of your social status?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631619)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:13 PM
Author: bearded balding headpube clown

also just made partner last year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631089)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:17 PM
Author: Appetizing property

I know a guy who squirreled away ca$h for 4 years as a biglaw partner then quit suddenly. I think he technically has a PLLC with his name on it to keep up appearances, but he doesn't actually work. Everybody was stunned, but I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631108)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:18 PM
Author: Effete boistinker

180 for that bro.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631109)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:20 PM
Author: Appetizing property

I think his wife has a Nutella-esque job though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631118)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:22 PM
Author: bearded balding headpube clown

i have dat lure of senior partner telling me i will inherit the business one day and be making 3M/yr. about 10 years away from that. every day is agony like 10,000 needles being pushed into my eyes and balls.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631123)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:23 PM
Author: Effete boistinker

If big money isn't making you happy now what makes you think bigger money in 10 years will?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631128)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:24 PM
Author: bearded balding headpube clown

500k isnt big money. i live in a modest house in a high COL area, never see my kids, don't take vacations, my wife also still works, i pay a nanny+school+daycare 100k/yr

watching as my kid autistically flaps arms as we speak while my wife is at work on a sunday.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631131)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:28 PM
Author: Massive Incel Shrine

No one to blame but yourself faggot. A partner who doesn take vacations and can’t figure out how to delegate work so his life isn’t miserable is dumb as fuck.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631144)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:30 PM
Author: bearded balding headpube clown

work is delegated as much as possible. every associate in group is billing 2400-2800 hours. All are basically on suidice watch but are still "in the game" because they saw me make it. group is obscenely successful but very lean. >1.5M revenue per lawyer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631151)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:35 PM
Author: Massive Incel Shrine

Dumb flame. Groups don’t get that busy in “midlaw,” and no associate is inspired by your dumb ass pretend making partner.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631167)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:37 PM
Author: bearded balding headpube clown

ok technically we are "biglaw" but my firm is not vault rated. the firm thinks its biglaw and follows the biglaw associate comp scale. my office in NYC.

the group followed me from another firm and i personally recruited all 10 of them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631174)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:39 PM
Author: Massive Incel Shrine

More dumb flame. No junior partner moves with ten attorneys.. no senior partner does for that matter.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631181)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:41 PM
Author: bearded balding headpube clown

i am an exception to the rule.

my last firm went out of business. i got the associates over here one by one over 18 months. 10 was an exaggeration - the real number is 6.

i promise you this is not flame.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631190)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:43 PM
Author: Massive Incel Shrine

It literally makes no sense to “recruit” a non rainmaker partner with a bunch of associates he can’t keep busy. And ten is a beyond ridiculous number for even th biggest rainmaker.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631199)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:45 PM
Author: bearded balding headpube clown

three years ago i was recruited as an associate in a group with 2 partners, no associates, and some work. i used connections that i had accumulated over my career to help grow the practice from a ~5M/yr practice to a nearly 20M/yr practice. This would not have been possible if i had not recruited my friends from old failing firm.

They made me partner and just told me my compass 500k all in this year.

The work i have is not extremely portable. very large conflict footprint, not marketable to bigger firms. also need to have a "large firm" so that clients are comfortable given the large geographic footprint of cases.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631205)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 2:04 PM
Author: salmon nibblets

This story sounds like utter and complete flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631571)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 3:24 PM
Author: bearded balding headpube clown

not sure how i can prove it to you without completely outing myself. if i told you the practice area it would probably out me as we are the only firm in the city where this practice area is currently growing and we have been blasting recruiters.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35632051)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 3:33 PM
Author: salmon nibblets

can i cop a jerb then?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35632121)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 5:04 PM
Author: bearded balding headpube clown

are you in NYC?

what undergrad degree do you have?

what year did you graduate law school? (we are specifically looking for some juniors)

autism level on scale of 1-10 (higher the better).

if you answer these properly, then sure.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35632655)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 9:34 PM
Author: bearded balding headpube clown



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35634386)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 10:22 PM
Author: salmon nibblets

not in NYC, practice at lit boutique in another jurisdiction currently, but passed NY bar last july.

undergrad was double major in something along the lines of economics + philosophy, or accounting + poly sci, or finance + classics, you get the idea.

CLS/NYU JD

not a junior, but fewer than 10 years out of law school.

fairly aspie, but i'm tall and decent looking.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35634736)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 1:07 PM
Author: salmon nibblets

How's troutman sanders like?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631289)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 1:27 PM
Author: bearded balding headpube clown

ok lets just say that for now. that works as a substitute.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631414)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:31 PM
Author: Laughsome hateful home hominid

The fact that it isn't common for biglaw partners to stash a few million as fast as they can then bail for low CoL area is really indicative of what a mentally ill population it is.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631155)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:32 PM
Author: bearded balding headpube clown

this was my first year. i stashed ~150k.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631160)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:33 PM
Author: Laughsome hateful home hominid

I think that's pretty respectable given your take home. If the market does well you could pull the ripcord in 5-10 years and be good, right?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631163)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:34 PM
Author: autistic garrison

they only pick people who they know are obsessed with hording as much money as possible

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631165)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:52 PM
Author: Appetizing property

I think it's a sunk cost thing. you've given up everything to be in that spot. Once you make it, you're just going to walk away ?



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631235)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 1:02 PM
Author: Laughsome hateful home hominid

Doubt I'll ever know personally, I don't think I'm a partershipmo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631273)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 1:03 PM
Author: bearded balding headpube clown

before i had the "goal" of making partner in front of me. now i just get physically ill thinking that i have to do 3 trials a year and business development... forever.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631277)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 1:04 PM
Author: Appetizing property

yeah that's our life until we die. :)))

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631282)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 1:09 PM
Author: motley wine pit skinny woman



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631305)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:41 PM
Author: Erotic theatre

save as much as possible and plow it into index equity funds

after you accumulate a few mil, incorporate a solo firm that has a very similar name to your present firm

use the dividends from your investments to create the illusion to ur wife that ur business is operating

do something completely different that makes u happy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631191)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:42 PM
Author: Blue Double Fault Mad Cow Disease

Woah

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631194)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:47 PM
Author: bearded balding headpube clown

wife is also a lawyer and would not be fooled.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631214)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 12:55 PM
Author: Dashing Striped Hyena

Then she probably recognizes that LAW = SHIT, right? Would she support your decision to GTFO of law?

If you make $500k and your wife presumably makes six figures, why not invest in another business/rental properties/something else and do that instead?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631245)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 1:03 PM
Author: Laughsome hateful home hominid

GET BACK IN

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631278)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 1:03 PM
Author: Appetizing property

*tamps pipe*

ahhh, now we come to zee root your problems



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631279)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 1:04 PM
Author: Dashing Striped Hyena



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631281)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 2:26 PM
Author: Frum Turdskin



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631688)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 3:37 PM
Author: autistic garrison



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35632143)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 2:23 PM
Author: Exhilarant Dingle Berry Field

Your wife is a lawyer and would be disappointed for you to lose the "prestige" of working for an international law firm? Then tell her get a fucking job there. LJL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631672)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 1:10 PM
Author: salmon nibblets

Doggie Suicide absolutely destroyed OP

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631311)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 1:22 PM
Author: bearded balding headpube clown

all he did was call me flame. thats not "destroyed"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631381)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 1:26 PM
Author: salmon nibblets

He proved you were flame and don’t even know enough about law firms to keep your flame together

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631409)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 1:27 PM
Author: bearded balding headpube clown

brother i really wish it were flame. my biglaw story sounds like flame even to those who know me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631417)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 1:57 PM
Author: comical copper place of business indian lodge

Have you tried moar litigation?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631539)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 1:59 PM
Author: Talented painfully honest reading party mood

Write a rhyme and ride a bike and try to live carefree.

Hope my message reaches you before you're seventy-three.

My old man, when people ask you what you did with your life.

You'll say "I hated LL ... and I carried a big knife!"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631547)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 2:25 PM
Author: Titillating carmine lay pozpig

Fellow law partner here. Why not just travel 75% of the year? See lots of interesting of places. Chill with your brej in every US city. Smash tinder chicks with dat lick msg and rile up NOWAGs on xo? It’s pretty cr brej.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35631683)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 3:27 PM
Author: bearded balding headpube clown

dude, RSF, cmon. (1) I'm married with kids and very happy with all of that including wife. (2) i have to travel for deps/trials and it sucks to be away from them so much of the year. i need to ship out for a pretrial tomorrow and won't be home for 3 weeks. later this year i will need to do 2 weeks of deps in Hong Kong, 2 weeks of deps in Japan, maybe deps in Germany, then travel for more hearings for a few more weeks. then we have 3 more sets of trials at year end all over country.

so yeah ill be doing lots of this traveling, but i would rather be with wife and kids. i don't consider that to be vacationing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35632079)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 3:27 PM
Author: misunderstood henna love of her life round eye

why not 9-5 500k in house?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35632080)



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Date: March 18th, 2018 3:28 PM
Author: bearded balding headpube clown

thats what id like to know.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922015&forum_id=2#35632084)