As a junior, is it frowned upon to take a Friday evening off for your birthday when a deal is semi-busy?

Is HCL providing WFH setup cost to new joiners?

Moved here recently. Any recommended bicycle shops ?

Seriously need to up the study game rn

I’m not naive or fresh out of law school, but I’m at a point where I’m saying to myself “Why can’t I have it all?” I’ve been offered a job for more pay and less hours and I keep thinking to myself, what’s the catch? I know people will say no promotion potential or that’s not how it works…but what if it could? What if you make yourself valuable by still setting your boundaries? Why would we resent someone who has that opportunity?

Taking a counteroffer and after 4 months leaving for another job. Will I be burning bridges?

Chicagoland Fish: I’m researching salaries for a CFO role that I’m interviewing for. The role is with with a middle-market insurance agency with about 150 employees.

I know there are a lot of factors but what range are other CFOs in the area earning in total comp?

Anyone looking for a Sr Business systems analyst? 5 years of experience in System Integrations as lead BA and scrum master.

What are bonuses like for a first year IB Analyst in London? (Think US banks like GS, MS, Citi etc.)

Curious to hear from the community, what is the best sales approach for enteprise? MEDDICC, MEDDPICC, Challenger Sale, Command of the message etc. Also, what approach do the major tech companies train their sales team on?

Hi Fishes,
My interview is scheduled on Monday for azure data engineer profile.
Experience 3 years.
Any leads what type of questions they ask,any folks who has given interview recently please reply ASAP.
Thanks in advance.

Anyone willing to dm about climate/sustainability roles at BCG?

28 / F / LA / 73k / Im underpaid, huh

How many billable hours per week is considered at capacity? I’m getting pushback on boundaries I’m setting about additional matters and marketing work from my firm when I’ve been billing 60-75 hours per week for the last 6 weeks, and I’m still behind on my work. I feel like it’s reasonable to not kill myself further to fit in more/turn things around faster at this point, but am I being unreasonable? I expect my workload to remain at this level through the end of the year at least.

How common is it to have an investor in your company also be a customer? As a company should you bend backwards to accept a requirement that serves only the investor and no one else in your customer base?

How did you guys do at Cannes? 0 Grand Prix/ 0 Gold/ 0 Silver/ 0 Bronze & 0 Shortlist for me. Sigh

If job posting pay was $36.66 hourly (no range) what would be an acceptable offer and counter offer?

Has anyone used or heard about Flagstar Bank for mortgage? Seem to have a great program for JDs, wondering if anyone has any bad experiences or good experiences with them

Anyone have an Echo device in their office? I really like having them at home but I’m not sure if I should have it at work.

When BigLaw attorneys interview students, how soon afterward do they give feedback? What kind of feedback do you give as an interviewer at your firm (e.g. qualitative, quantitative, thumbs up, thumbs down, veto)? Does everyone get in a room or do you just submit the forms to one hiring partner, and/or to a black box? If you don't click with the student, what would make you still give them a thumbs up? Sorry if my questions are a little neurotic... !

How do I tell a firm I screened with that another firm I screened with is moving forward with full rounds? I would prefer the former firm, even though the latter firm is ranked higher. Thanks for any advice

Is the lateral market still hot? Any of you interviewing/ lateralling soon?

Firm didn’t really want to interview me, but decided to speak to me anyway. I have now made it through all the stages of their process, but are other candidates. Chances good for an offer?

If we all make a fuss about returning to the office do you think the standard will change?

Anyone have any negative secondment experiences? If so, what made it negative?

What are the unwritten rules of your group/office/firm?

Random partner asked a litigation-related question to a partner I frequently work with (i’m a transactional associate). My partner cc’d me and said for me to briefly look. Asked the library. They got me a great case. Sent it back. Now the random partner is asking for more cases in another circuit.

I haven’t done caselaw research since 1L and this isn’t even my practice… wtf do I do (I am fully utilized in my normal work and have a few deals closing soon…)

How do you bill your time? The busier I am the harder it is to bill. How do people actually bill contemporaneously in detailed terms when you bill 12 hours but literally did 100 different things in those 12 hours. And it’s never slow enough to go back and do it super detailed.

Stealth layoffs at CWT confirmed.

I lateraled into a niche practice group in Sept 2021. I also have a 1 year old and have been mostly remote since I started - but have been keeping busy tracking towards 2400-2500 hours. That said getting to know people only remote has been kind of awkward at times (email only can be tough to decipher) although as a working mom the pros vastly outweigh the cons. Yesterday my main partner asked me to come in Thursday bc he will be there and set a time to meet. Is this good/bad?? kind of nervous!

BeCiAL sPoNuSeS this year??

What monetary goal/target are you telling yourself to hit before quitting big law?

Fish, I trust your advice. Anyone have leads or recruiter recs for SF biglaw litigation? Looking to lateral as a to-be second year, mostly antitrust/white collar.

How do I make my windowless office more lively. It’s driving me crazy

Was interviewing with a firm and soon after receiving an offer, learned of bad culture/toxic partners in the practice group from a couple of associates who recently lateraled from the firm. I turned the offer down. A partner that I clicked with while interviewing reached out asking me why I turned down the offer. Should I be honest and relay what I heard?

Best firms for healthcare transactions?