Best resources for a very green corporate transactions junior associate to get up to speed?

I just made a switch from a boutique litigation firm to a mid-sized corporate transactions practice. It’s been about 3 months, and I’m simply not meeting the partner’s (understandably high) standards. I love the work, and want to keep doing this, but need to start delivering better work product faster, I just don’t know what I don’t know.

Hi everyone! I have my first round of interviews at Dapper Labs this week for a Content Marketer role. They mentioned in the email that they would want to talk about compensation during the call. Does anyone have an idea of what the band is for this role/department?

Take home salary for a fixed 23lpa CTC.
After pf deduction and tax ,what myt be the take home.

For parents with school-age kiddos (kindergarten up), what do you do for childcare? Thinking about giving up our nanny, but worried about juggling days off, sick days, and summer break.

Looking to make a career move and do something that involves a bit more analytics and creative thinking. Any recos ?

My girlfriend of a year brought up her ex while drunk and told me way more than I wanted to know…

For Risk advisory/internal audit what skills, process, technology should I develop to be best and what I do and get recognised.

Have less than 1yr experience currently. TIA

Excel geniuses, what are some recommended excel certificates or good enough programs to consider? No specific length 🙏

I have got an offer from Nagarro for associate staff engineer for 22 LPA
My current CTC is 16 LPA
My increment is due this month in my current org,
I asked for 27 they gave 22.
Notice Period is 90 Days

Tech Stack- Angular, Node
4.2 YOE

Hi fishes Need your help,

I have got an offer from a startup having around 75 employees. The company seems to great in providing services and learning curve. Currently I have 2.9 YOE. I was thinking to just grab that offer for more counter offers but the company is asking for a verbal assurance that I won't be looking for any other opportunities and will be joining this company itself before generating the offer letter. What should I do in such case?

Does anyone know what current FSLA salary requirements are in NYS? Specifically on Long Island? Is are there different federal requirements? Thanks so much

I have 7 years experience, working as Lead DevOps engineer at 12.7 LPA. I have received an offer from McKinsey and Company for Engineer2 role in DevOps for 29 LPA. I feel I will step down in designation but I will get great exposure in McKinsey. Please share your suggestions, is the offer from McKinsey good to go?

Feeling really sad about friends I have drifted apart from despite efforts to stay in touch. My best friend from high school and I haven’t seen each other in about 4 years, I messaged her a year ago, got a nice response from her, and I tried keeping the convo going but she left me on read. Offered her and her boyfriend tickets to join me and my boyfriend at a concert in fall 2019, left us on read with no response. Her bday was last week and she left my bday wishes on read too. I’m so sad.

When sprouting tomato seeds, how wet do you keep the soil?

My 15 years old has been working on writing an iphone app using php, swift, story board, xxamp/firebase. I am looking for some classes or an online school that can expedite and formalize his learning. I will appreciate if you can point me to some direction or share some names of the learning places.

Hey how is Embroynic team of SaT in EY GDS

thoughts on exes who won’t respect your boundaries? split up a few months ago but he has been mailing things to my apartment, I blocked his number and he tried to message me thru fb, blocked him on fb and then he tried thru insta and (after blocked) tried my second insta - not sure whether to just tell him to back off (would that encourage him) or just make sure “everything” is blocked?

I always feel like I’m messing up and I have this horrible feeling every time I send out an email that has 3+ people on it that I’m saying the wrong thing or that people just deal with me and not actually respect what I have to say... 😓😓😓 how do I counter this?? I feel so mediocre.

Anyone with 7+ years of experience looking to go in-house with a ~$16B tier 1 auto mfg company? Generalist commercial role, probably director level but I’m not 100% sure. Not posted yet.

Stupidest time-saving abbrevs for email signoffs?

I’ve just been sent “k rgds”.

For those 2-4 years in: what type of matters do you handle on your own and what do you work with a partner/sr associate on? Just curious.

Would you choose to lateral to Holland & Knight or King & Spalding? M&A and private equity teams. Tha

What contract companion software do you use? Do you like it? (Debating between Contract Companion and Drafting Assistant)

Are there State/federal (or other laws) that govern the closure of a store? The entity owns other stores and will not be dissolving. Just shutting down one of its stores.

Do all CA corporations have to file with the DBO?

Does anyone have thoughts on Cooley?

How do you manage unreasonable client expectations when the client is unsophisticated? Have a client who expected her deal to close next week despite the purchase agreement not even having been finalized or discussed with the other party’s counsel and the lender not having approved the financing for the acquisition.

How would one go about raising an issue of uneven distribution of workflow? I just don’t feel like I’m kept busy enough or staffed on enough transactions to meet budget.

What made you decide to choose this field as your career? Do you feel fulfilled? At the start of the year I always find myself thinking about this. Just wondering how others feel

Any partners out there willing to give me advice on what type of corporate law I should try to expertise in? A partner told me he thinks public finance is going to be the next best thing and that there are limited lawyers in this space

Any recommendations for a book/podcast/self study materials for a new finance attorney? I have no background in finance and was assigned to a finance group. Help me!!

Anyone know if proxy materials are mailed out on a certain day, can the proxy can be filed with the SEC after 5:30 pm that same day and be considered ok? Rule requires proxy to be filed the same day materials are mailed or given to shareholders.

Hi, I am basically the only corporate attorney in a small firm. I am a corporate generalist so I have broad experience (corporate governance, independent k agreements, stock/asset purchases, other general counsel work for clients). I deal with small acquisitions so not considered really m&a as the ones big law doe (my due diligence is minimal in most). I would love to learn more complex m&a but not sure how and I want to better market myself out for a lateral move. Appreciate any advice! Thanks

Any book recommendations on Clinical Trial Agreements?

Has anyone transitioned from M&A to Real Estate? Feeling pretty burned out on M&A and wanting to try something different, but have limited RE experience. I’m only a 2nd year associate, so I’m hoping I’m still early enough in my career to make a change.

Do you use any workflow management platforms to organize your M&A deals? Not talking about data rooms, but more actual team management (e.g. Trello, Asana, Midaxo)

Insight into Private Equity group at DLA? Would be based in Chicago or Minneapolis. Mainly concerned with culture and hours for a mid-senior level associate. Also curious to know what a 4-6 year associate’s responsibilities would be on a deal (drafting? Diligence? Specialist wrangling?).

I’m trying to get a foot in the corporate transactional world. Any suggestions, mentorship on how I can start and successfully get in it?