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What do you do for your assistant’s birthday?

Would you use a recruiter to lateral or go through a connection? Recruiters have been promising they can get guaranteed EOY bonuses if you meet prorated hours, on top of sign-on bonuses

Question for Senior Associates - how do the partners distribute new matters? Do they just expect you to jump on anything new that comes in and figure out the staffing of juniors or do they take the le… more

Hi everyone! Could you please recommend some recruiters from personal experience for NYC PE M&A? Rising midlevel looking to lateral.

Thank you!

Men, why do you all dress so boringly at the office? You all look like the finance bros, just usually without a patagonia vest. Would it kill you to wear some color? Ties exist for a reason.

Since we’re all bitching about recruiters today, I raise you: financial planners and people hawking life insurance. Stop calling.

Left BigLaw after a year for a highly regarded boutique with honestly more hours but equally sophisticated work. With lean teams, I’ve had much more hands on experience with my own motion and depo pra… more

Do you respond to recruiters to say no thanks/not looking, or do you just ignore? One of them has been following up and I’m wondering if she’s spam sending out follow-ups or if I should respond.

If you knew you weren’t coming back after parental leave because you’ll be going in house when would you tell the firm? Obviously I’d like to use my full leave and avoid any clawback, which I assume w… more

Does anyone in tech transactions work somewhere that doesn’t do mostly life sciences?

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but career breaks (even if involuntary) are not career enders. I don’t know why we let the fear-mongering a*holes take over this platform. Track your finances like… more

Any insights into Latham NY Real Estate?

I tend to get work from around 6 different partners. They all have their quirks or idiosyncrasies of course but only one partner will drive me up the wall with their behavior. I will send them a deliv… more

Seeing a spike in recruiter email. Is the lateral market getting warmer or just recruiters getting desperate?

Lateral offer for big law L&E or secondment at current firm as midlevel in lit? Plan is to go in-house one day, but the uncertainty of a job offer post-secondment is stressful.

Mid-level working with a 3Y that seems to require way too much hand-holding. E.g., partners say we need a memo with analysis of chances of success on a motion. I ask Jr to start an outline and then se… more

Do firms still offer junior laterals signing bonus? If anyone has insight on Sidley and STB pls share!

Which dc firms give you a partial bonus if you don’t quite hit your hours? Which ones give you no bonus at all?

Looking for management advice. A first year doesn’t take well to feedback and deflects by providing a lot of excuses even for simple tasks and wastes time in doing so. Tried to tell me how I (much mor… more

Relocating from NYC to Los Angeles for personal reasons and want to find the same big law paying job in LA. Any tips on recruiting and expected timeline to find a position? Should I start searching wi… more

Genuine question looking for honest advice. 7th year at V20 doing CM. Was put up for partnership last year but didn't make it. This year they offered counsel as real possibility if I was intereste… more

SA here. Getting good reviews but feeling iced out. Relatively slow, getting staffed on (what I view as) inconsequential matters. Recently was told I can’t be staffed on an upcoming trial (white colla… more

Is a career in biglaw doing only traditional labor sustainable?

Out of curiosity, in a non-biglaw market (Tucson, Nashville, Orlando, etc.), how many YOE would you need to comfortably make $150k in transactional private practice.

Anyone know anything about MOFO technology transactions group? Culture? Types of work (eg, own work versus deal support)? How it compares to other SF techie firms (eg, Cooley, Fenwick, Gunderson, etc)… more

Which AI platform does S&C use? Just asking for a friend

I’m preparing to give notice and move in-house. What is the best order of operations internally—should I speak with my ADM / practice group manager first, then the managing partner or relationship pa… more

I'm from Florida. Working in NY. I want to go back because my parents are having health issues. What's easier: trying to lateral to Florida or getting remote work approved from my current firm?

3rd year. … more

Is there fund formation work in philly big law

New lateral, one month in but not enough work, what do I do in the office? Watched a whole year of CLE already…

Is it normal for recruiters to ask if you hit your hours every year? Should you respond honestly?

Anyone here worked in a U.S. biglaw in London and then lateraled back to biglaw in the U.S.? How hard was it to return and how is the London experience viewed? Midlevel in a generally transferable tra… more

How is the culture in the LA/Santa Monica office for Cooley and Orrick? What’s the RTO mandate?

I'm a T-14 grad with big law experience that has been laid off since the summer. All of my interviews from in house to firms have not worked out. I'm a few weeks out from having to do doordash… more

How is the culture (especially in the transactional groups) at Freshfields (NY and Bay Area)?

any insight on ropes and gray tech trans group? any red flags?