Anyone else super slow? So far this month, I’ve billed 14 hours. 0.5 today. 😞

Hi Fishes, is anyone here aware of Customer Statement Formatter (CSF) in Mainframes?

I have my first solo hearing in front of opposing counsel and the Judge, were asking for a fee multiplier on a contingency case. This is in Florida BTW. Any tips or advice for my first hearing will be greatly appreciated.

I work at a small firm with not that many workable templates so I usually have to do everything from scratch like drafting motions, pleadings, and researching all potential counts every time. Do bigger firms have better and more templates that allow you to have to do less research?

What is the internal mobility process at Accenture? How much time we have to wait after joining to move to different team?

Hello! I need a bit of guidance for AWS. Currently working as Digital marketing specialist and learning AWS SAA side by side. I want to make a switch to AWS as full time but don't have the right guidance to do so. Any help or roadmap to do would really be appreciated :)

How do you deal with international suppliers? We work with a company in Mexico for school supplies and they literally stopped responding to all communications after we sent them their yearly fee. We've worked with them for 3 years so this is definitelt weird, but who should I contact in case I don't hear back from them?

FDD exit ops?

Hi team,
I am looking for a change in a product based company.
I am a backend dev with 6 yrs of experience earing 25lpa. Please suggest companies with good working environment and accepting applications.

How much EY deduct for insurance?

Do you judge a coworker if you find out he is in an open relationship? Trying to decide if it is something I should try to hide or not 🤨

Hi fishes. I am social work professional with 6 YOE in international NGOs. I am looking for opportunities in CSR / INGO /Consulting firms / Impact organisations. Please share if there are any leads.
I have worked in Education, Skill development, Child protection, Health and Adolescent and youth empowerment domains.
Preferred location : Bangalore, Mumbai

Any official update on pune office address apart from the one in Viman Nagar?

Hi,

I have 10 yearoof development experience in Java. Just needed some guidance. Never got a chance to work abroad.... And to be Frank don't have enough data on how to apply for a job onsite.

Really want to explore this side of the work life as well. Mostly interested of uk or Europe.

Any guidance or suggestions are welcome on how to approach.

Thanks in advance

Hi All,
MSCI, Johndeere, Jio platform ltd., Target corporation. Which one is good to join ?

We spend all day thinking about how to make other things look cool. If you made a :30 spot about YOURSELF, what would it be?

How do de-escalate a fight between customers?

I lateraled to a new firm because I was eager to take on more responsibility that wasn’t available at my prior firm. I was very upfront about this when I interviewed with the new firm and was guaranteed more substantive work. Half a year in, I am getting the same work as the first years as a mid-level. I’ve always been told that I operate above my class year but this has been frustrating and I feel like I’m regressing. Anyone else experience this?

I’m a new lateral 3rd year in a niche practice area and the partner I do most of my work for with called me today saying he has a medical emergency and can’t look at emails today/tomorrow. We have several deliverables due this week and I’m the only associate on his projects. HELP

First-year officially being staffed on ongoing litigation matters: best practices for case management as the most junior person? What do people often do as a first step, second, etc. to not only get up to speed but assume command deadlines?

Do you have a relaxation room with a bed and/or massage chairs etc at your firm?

I’m a 5th yr considering lateraling from a V30 to a V100 to increase chances at partnership. The v100 makes a fair amount of partners in my practice and I would assess my chances at making equity partner there to be relatively good for BL. At the V30 equity partnership odds seem much lower, but my reviews have been good. The V30 has >$2mm per year higher PPP, higher chambers ranking and better exit ops generally.

Any advice as to how to decide on the offer? What else should I consider?

Anyone have a second “work phone”? Is it good for keeping boundaries on times when you’re not working? Or is it basically just a second device that never leaves you? 7th year lateraling to a v35 firm from v100 and thinking about it.

For recent-ish grads with a graduating debt of $180k+, what is your student loan repayment timeline & budget? I bounce between wanting to be miserly and pay off everything in the shortest possible time, and wanting to indulge here and there and accepting I might be indebted longer than the minimum amount of time.

How is the billable rate for each associate determined at your firm? Does everyone in the same class bill out at the same rate?

You wake up during the night//can’t fall asleep because you are thinking about a case. Do you bill this?

Partners who promise clients EOD Friday deliverables are the bane of my existence. Stayed up til 2 to get a draft on partners desk first thing this morning and still haven’t heard anything.

Student loan pause or nah?

Hi NY biglaw folks. I'm a first-year associate applying to the NY bar—is there a difference in how quickly each Department gets through your application? I have a choice between the First and Third Departments and I'm not sure if it makes a difference.

OT but my SIL is 52 and single (engaged once but broke it off, ultimately never married). She is in the tristate area. I really want to buy her matchmaking services for her upcoming birthday but just saw how crazy expensive the fees are to work with one. Does anyone have any recommendations, or any other ways I can help her? I really want to be able to. Any stories of women here finding love in their 50s? It seems like it's easier to do once you've been married before but im not sure why. TIA

WHERE IS MY RAISE

SOS how do I start caring about this job again

Partners/Associates. How does someone balance the fine line between sending follow up networking emails to people who did not respond to the first networking email (sent pre-pandemic)? Having targeted alumni of my schools, I know people are flooded with emails daily (especially partners) and it may have been poor timing as people are busy. I don’t want to become an annoyance, but I do want to try to connect with fellow alums (with hopes of a job at some point (more than 1 year from now)).

Starting new job as third year associate (I’ve been a term clerk since I graduated). Is it possible/relatively easy to hit 1800 hours working 8-6 and not working weekends? Afraid my husband will divorce me if I work too many hours 🙃

If you don’t have 8 hours of billable time a day, do you leave as is or do you fill in the gap with non-billable work? While I am in the office, I don’t always get the billable amount since I don’t have enough work. Seems like a waste of time to enter non-billable time just to fill in the gap but I also don’t want them to think I am not there and slacking off.

What’s the norm?

Anyone here deal with Phantom Share Agreements? Would that be in the wheelhouse for an ECVC lawyer? My BIL is being offered a job with a company and received a proposed phantom shares agreement. One condition states that he must remain in good standing with the company even after the 3 year vesting period to receive distributions. Is that atypical?

Has anyone done an LLM part-time while working full-time in big law? If so, what was your experience? Was it manageable with your work? Was your work understanding of it? Was it worth it?