Best way to formulate a response to “tell me about yourself” as a lateral?

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Your elevator pitch. Give your background, where you’re from, career history, and then transition to why you’re now interested in their firm

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^^ exactly !

I start with wear I’m from, touch on law school / undergrad. Then something that caused you to move wherever you are now. Say you’re a __ year associate at ___. Practice primarily consists of...

Then wait until they cut in at some point. Can be awkward over zoom but that’s my usual go to

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I hate my life now so want to lateral to your firm to hate my life just as much but with a sweet signing bonus.

Worked for me.

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Lmao

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I give overview of my professional background that’s relevant and then add a personal touch like my hobbies.

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anyone working in Visa? currently waiting to see if i get offered. any insight to comp and ben would be immensely helpful! 🙏🏽

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LTI is Hiring for below Cloud - BU Positions!!

Immediate to 30 days joiners will be preferred.
Interested plz DM with job codes to apply

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Can anyone tell me the procedures after submitting my employee form in portal. How the onboarding and next steps will be.

Anyone who can be of assistance with referral/contacts or similar to help me land a junior role in Paris or London ? ❤️(I am eligible to work in eu)

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Recommendation for a Moh’s surgeon? Loop, Mile, River North, Gold Coast, or Blue Line.

Can we all collectively come together to help IBM find a true match?

@IBM. What are you looking for? What has worked and what has not worked in the past? And please provide any other information you believe would be relevant and helpful for all of us to know.

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Just regained SPG Plat. How long before Marriott status reflects the bump?

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Hi Fishes,

Can anyone help me with roles and responsibilities of Associate principal in LTI? Is LTI giving this designation on the basis of ectc from new joiners or on the basis of work experience. Any inputs will be helpful.🙏

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hi - new to this bowl. I want to make sure I’m not being irrational or dramatic lol.

My boyfriend forgot my upcoming birthday. He scheduled a pick-up hockey game on that day and when I asked him about it, he said it was important to him to play hockey with his friends and we could celebrate my birthday a different day. for context, we’ve been dating for over a year and he knows how important celebrating is to me. im pretty close to ending it... thoughts?

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Hi all, I wanted to clear a doubt . If I join a company but they don't extend the appointment letter since1 month which should be within 15 days as per the offer . And they have linked my pf . So how is it possible that without filling pf forms can an employer link my pf?

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Can someone Suggest Template for Ppt's
I have a presentation to make and I want to be uniquely different .
PpT will be on Customer Satisfaction

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Could you please confirm if there is cab facility for Shollinganallur office,since I will have to WFO for 3 days in a week


Also,if cab is available,can you please share the charges for the same.

What is the best media agency that you’ve worked for? What was the worst? And what factors played into both of those experiences?

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I work in deloitte USI. I have a medical condition can I request for a permanent WFH?

It seems to me that engineers would make some of the best farmers because they could figure out the most efficient way to use land for agriculture

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What’s the best campaign you can think of geared towards kids?

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Hi everyone! I am interviewing with PWC for M&A tax position. I am wondering how is the wlb?

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Any tips on being a better junior and to improve work product quality?

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The two most common things on this bowl that disappoint:

(1) people saying what do you think you signed up for

(2) people saying that's why we get paid the big bucks.

Nobody thats suffering actually understood it was going to be that bad. And that's no reason to tolerate/perpetuate the toxic parts of our profession even if you did.

And, we don't get paid large salaries to deal with unhealthy environments. We get paid because we perform a function our clients are legally required to use.

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Are folks happy with the Kirkland bonuses?

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Corporate associates - how do y’all review data rooms efficiently? I find it so hard to review 400+ documents/contracts for a transaction while also keeping pace with my other workload. It seems impossible to actually read every line within the required deadline but skimming or searching for key terms has caused me to miss things in the past

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Best way to handle maternity leave? How soon ahead of my due date should I let the firm know?

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How do you respond to an email where someone introduces you to another attorney for mentoring purposes? I'd like to reply back thanking the person making the introduction and asking the new attorney if they have availability to tell me more about x, y,z, but she hasn't actually agreed to even talk to me yet, so it feels overly forward. Am I overthinking this?

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Cravath bonus info is out

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Does anyone here microdose during week days? Either for mental health or cognitive reasons?

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Got an email late last night from my partner asking where my comments were. The email was fine, but they replied all to everyone in the email. So annoyed, but also very glad I am giving notice tomorrow.

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Is the counsel title another version of non equity partner?

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I’ve gotten asked how I deal with feedback in two different interviews recently. Anyone have an idea of what a good answer would be? I panicked and said something about paying close attention to redlines and proactively attempting to improve my legal writing but I’m not sure that’s what they’re looking for.

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I had the Coach badge in this bowl. Then I lost it. Anyone know why that would happen?

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After many years of doing purely corporate law, I recently moved inhouse to do structured finance. Honestly, I am in unknown territories. My boss also not patient about my re-learning process yet they knew from the interview that I know close to nothing about structured finance. I am 2 months into my 6 months probation period and I am worried that I might have bit more than I can chew. FYI - I am doing all I need to do to learn (books) but still struggling. Any pointers on how to get it faster.

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How long does it take to clear conflicts (junior associate, litigation)? The offer letter has my start date, so I’m ready to give notice and want two weeks in between firms.

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Any inside scoop on Paul Hastings DC and NY?

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A client had something sitting on their desk for 2 weeks and emails us urgently asking for it to be done today. Told the partner I have 4 closings and he told me to “find the time”. Do partners and clients just get off from this sort of thing?

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Are there many exit options for products liability lit associates?

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Looking to switch from a boutique firm into big law and make a move into corporate from litigation. Anyone have experiences doing this? Also, does anyone know which firms are more willing to hire laterals from outside of big law and which ones won’t?

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Anyone at Nelson Mullins Boston willing to make a referral? I’d love to chat with you.

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Anyone in lev fin in south Florida? Would love to hear from you.

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