All my deals went pencils down except for 3, 1 of which is targeting closing next year. I hit my yearly target already…feeling like I should just continue to say no to new work and fly under the radar for a quiet few weeks before my other 2 deals try to close year end. Thoughts?

Does anyone work with/for an airline that would be willing to connect? I’d love to find a way to get more involved in the industry. Specifically, I’m interested in fleet and network planning as well as aircraft procurement.

What certs would you recommend for someone who wants to pursue the cloud security track? What platform should I focus on first?

I'm just starting out but already know I want to go solo. Any advice?

Need a referal. EOY - 8.10 years Full Stack developer ( Angular, WebApi, C#, Asp. net, MVC, Entity Framework, LINQ, SQL server)

I feel like I have a good buying strategy for investments with dollar cost averaging each month. But I think I’m lacking the knowledge of when I should be selling. Any tips? Thx

Should I start Jimmy G or Matt Ryan today?

Hey guys can someone help me refer my friend in EY? Please help me if you can. My friend is urgently looking for Job. TIA.

How much should I be paying for a home inspection in Atlanta

Do any jobs exist that pay $150k and only require a 9am-5pm?

Im so burnt out. 3 years experience and a MHA

Anyone here in AMS who can give the inside scoop on the talent and agency market situation right now?

Anyone work in UW for Axa XL?

Hey everyone!
I have passed L1 and L2 interviews in Birlasoft, have HR interview tomorrow.
Profile - python AWS developer
Work exp - 2.5 years, Wipro Limited
How much hike should I expect/ask for?

I pulled all my funds out of altcoins back to BTC to wait out the correction

Facebook UK offer - what's the culture and work there like?

Writing sample question:

I’m applying for an associate position at a big law firm. I graduated law school last year but immediately went in-house at a large corporation and I’m now looking to make a move to a firm setting.

In my role at the corporation, I haven’t gotten to draft anything substantial. I’ve put together a couple of memos but only one reaches 10 pages and it’s not particularly interesting. Is it bad if I use a more impressive writing sample from my 2L summer?

Strategy Q: We have a strategic strong hold in a specific region that is quite demanding, unappreciative and difficult as a customer. Their requests often take the product on a tangent as they have very niche use cases, and this uses up (some) Engg bandwidth from other key areas needed to grow the market both locally and in other locals.
Leadership wants to keep the client so they agree to all their demands.
How common is this? Is this strategy okay or are there pitfalls we aren't seeing?

Is westlaw down????

Partners: how many hours, including billable hours, do you need to work for a year? More than associates’ hours, or less, or about the same?

What do you guys drink in the mornings and throughout the day to stay focused/awake when you’ve had to grind into the wee hours of the night for two weeks straight?

Has a doctor ever suggested that you consider a less stressful job? And if so, are you male or female? I am female and have some chronic conditions. Today at a routine check-up with a new physician, he suggested maybe because of my "medical conditions" I think about a less stressful job. I have never received that advice from the specialists I see for those conditions, and I find it unlikely that a doctor would suggest this to a male patient. Does anyone have any insight?

Is it just me or does this forum lean lit?

Anyone go from big law to small/mid and then back to big and regret the move back to big law? Maybe I’m forgetting how bad it is in big law. Someone remind me and tell me to stay put — FWIW, 5th year making $215k, 1850 hour requirement. Yes, I took a MASSIVE pay cut.

Any AUSA/DOJ trial attorneys here? What’s life like compared to big law?

Decision: big city atty for ntwide ins defense firm for 4 years. gotten great lit experience, over 100 depos, handle own cases. Some big, but lot of run of mill PI. Make above market for work, great rep with partners and autonomy with hrs. Compare to offer for the most reputable firm in city (not ntwide tho), complex lit, not as much depos but more motion work, private pay clients, and tons more comraderie. Pay is same, bttr bnft. Seems right but worried I’d be leaving a stable, established job

so, how many firm laptops' worth of billable time would you say you waste in a given month dealing with delays caused by your firm laptop?

Another post piqued my curiosity but didn’t give me any good drama so I’ll create my own here…Stories of what you/someone else did to get pushed out of a firm in under a year? As a lateral or first year, and both behavior-wise (e.g., getting too drunk or harassing someone) and as related to work ethic (e.g., never replying to emails).

Anyone have insight for WilmerHale?

Specifically, I'm interested in knowing:
1. The culture across the firm
2. Whether associates are (or can be) hired in offices that don't have a presence for their intended group (e.g., if I could work out of LA for the IP group, which currently does not have any attorneys in the LA office)
3. What the culture is like in the LA, SF, Palo Alto offices
4. Culture in the IP group, specifically patent prosecution

Thanks in advance!

Wondering what Kirkland litigation hours look like in the NY/DC/Chicago offices. Most of the sweatshop stories I hear about are from the corporate and restructuring groups. KE lit associates - what are you billing? Do you feel like you’re getting a good variety of cases?

Texas biglaw: which firms are offering flexibility (at least two days a week of WFH) going forward?

My firm is saying “we aren’t mandating a return but once vaccinated we encourage you to be in the office frequently.” I am still going to WFH twice a week until yelled at but would like to lateral to a firm that’s more flexible.

What matters more: meeting/exceeding billable requirements or doing high quality work well above your class year?

How is the market for M&A in LA? What sort of clients do you mainly work with?

Can someone please explain secondments to me and what they really do in the context of biglaw partnership? I think they’re a way to buy the firm a couple of years of not making you a partner or get you to quit the firm. Am I wrong or what.

Have a coworker who volunteers for work but never ends up doing it. At what point does it make sense to go to the partner to address this? We’re both midlevels, and I’m tired of having to put in even more time every weekend to pick up his slack. If this were a junior, I’d address it with them first, but this is unacceptable from a fifth/sixth year.

As a gift, my parents put down a large down payment on a condo in a VHCOL city. The house is in my name and I’m responsible for the rest of the costs. I had a housewarming the past weekend and invited a few of my colleagues. Today I had a meeting with a partner who suddenly congratulated me and said it must be nice to not have loans and own expensive property as a junior. I didn’t know what to say. Now other people in the office have come up to me and said the same thing…is my reputation ruined?

Is it strange that anyone at my firm (associates/partners) can look up where any lawyer is on billable time for the month? I’m a third year lateral, and my old firm didn’t do that. Is that normal? Feels invasive

Relatively new first year M&A associate. Is it normal for every weekend to be ruined in this practice area?