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I just received a conflicts form, is that usually an indication I will be receiving an offer? I thought usually the offer is extended first then conflicts.

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My lease at my place ends in about 6 months. My husband and I want to move states after it ends and don’t want to lock in another lease at our current place/state. My firm has an office in the city we… more

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What’s everyone’s plan for when AI replaces you? I’m going to use my savings to buy a van to drive around until money runs out, then forage for food from dumpsters like a raccoon.

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Is M&A dead right now?

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Feels like all of our partners and junior associates took the day off …

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Any insight on Big Law salaries for their offices in Mexico City (partner/counsel/associate)?

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Is the billable hour dead? Also if price no longer a differentiator, are most law firms done for?

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What puts Morgan Lewis, Clifford Chance, Cahill and O’Melveny at the top of the Vault rankings for compensation? Wachtell is obvious/well publicized, but I’m otherwise pretty confused what’s going on … more

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I’m a third year associate and AI can do my job. Fairly confident this is true for almost all of us. Seriously what is going to happen?

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What do you wear on a zoom interview to lateral to a new firm? Worth wearing a tie? First time interviewing since OCI.

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Is sidley 4 days in office policy enforced? NY

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Is there any alternative to lateraling when your firm culture expects absurdly high hours and availability? It’s at a point that my teams are scheduling 9 or 10 pm regular meetings because we’re all s… more

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If the goal is to make top dollar (long term), which practice areas would you recommend? Capital markets, funds, M&A, projects, banking and finance, litigation, international arbitration, or white… more

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I recently found out that someone I had offered help to because they were “drowning”, gave pretty much all their work to me under the guise of “taking a little bit off their plate”. That’s the last ti… more

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With Nashville picking up, any firms opening up in Charlotte, Atlanta, or Miami?

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Why are there so few women partners in restructuring?

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I owe a lot in taxes this year and I’m surprised. I expected a refund bc I assumed taxes on bonus would be withheld at a very high flat rate. I checked Reddit and there were so many ppl saying they go… more

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What’s the scoop on the best fund formation groups currently? How’s STB?

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Latham & Watkins How strict is Latham & Watkins about RTO in NY?

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When lateraling and negotiating for a full year end bonus at the new firm, do they ask how much I’ve billed so far at my current firm to make sure I would have received it at my current firm?

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Any clue which firm it is currently hiring finance associate roles for their expanding media/ sports/ entertainment group? Been getting recruiter emails about this one.

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omg Ruemmler is out — we put the pressure y’all 😭

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Cravath losing partners left and right… about time to merge with Nelson Mullins

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Is it a good or bad sign for a practice group if a well respected young equity partner leaves to become GC at a client?

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Would you move firms for extra $100K after tax and “potentially” better exits to in house (both firms are market paying) even if the new firm is more intense (personality/pace wise but about the same … more

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Anyone else getting emails from recruiters saying “it’s not Paul Weiss”?

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What’s market bonus for 6th year? 90k or 105k?

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Partners that have lateraled: what’s that process like? Do u also have rounds of interviews like associates do?

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Why do we choose big law?
1. Just the money?
2. Where does it lead to that a mid-law/boutique can’t in larger scheme - WLB, decent pay, time/space to build your own.

A lot many practice groups I see don’t lead to pa… more

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Will working more than many other juniors, but getting early experiences like taking and defending depos, have a tangible benefit for me when I try to lateral somewhere more calm in a year or two?

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Feeling out of luck. Fired from my firm and my website time runs out next week. I’m a 7th year at my third firm, so I think the fact that I’d be moving to a 4th firm is keeping me from landing intervi… more

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Is there a standard clawback period for a signing bonus? Also would appreciate hearing any experiences with firms either enforcing or not enforcing clawbacks.

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Lateraled in November. Absolutely hate the place. Still have to stick it out a full year?

Also, what are the chances that the firm I turned down would hire me?

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Anyone have go-to prompts that they use for getting helpful results out of GenAI? Biggest one for me has been telling GPT to always tell me if it can’t read a file and not to hallucinate its contents.

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Is it still ok to use the phrase “caught with our pants down“ or “open kimono” ? an older partner I work with uses phrases like these quite frequently….

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If you have to choose between love or this career, what would you choose?

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Can anyone at Paul Weiss confirm if Mitch Webber, who advised Jeffrey Epstein about how to legally sex traffic children, is still a partner? Incredible that he's still on the website.

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Mid lateraling from lower V100 to V10. I was a top performer work-wise (at least substantively) at my old firm but still have some serious imposter syndrome/nerves due to the larger office/group fille… more

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How is Lathams lender side finance group? Is it mainly private credit focused? What size deals? NY if that matters. Lots of work to go around? Too much? Crazy people?

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Two weeks ago I (lit senior) got staffed and told to personally draft a major motion with minimal onboarding midway through the case’s life cycle. I’m told the group is “super busy.” Motion is due in … more

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