Does anyone here work in-house? Or as an outside GC to a company?

Anyone transition from consulting to product and have any real practical advice? I’ve read many boards, blogs, and books but maybe something that you learned in the process that would be helpful?

What is the best consultancy for Media and Entertainment work? Considering a move…

What are some smaller production companies making great work these days? Not so much the big multi-director lead commercial prodco’s but the creative upstarts? Who ya a fan of?

Balanced portfolio: hows’s your stock: bond ratio? Within stock , which index funds do you invest ? I have mostly invested in vtsax and vigax, and tiny percentage in vviax. Do I need to increase in vviax?

Hi fishes,need you inputs regarding Notice period and retention policy.
1. 3 months np is negotiable or its fixed?
2.once you resign do cognizant retain its employees and if yes how much do they offer?

Anyone joined cisco recently? Do they have virtual onboarding?

The best idea deck ever?

Does anyone have any advise when it comes to navigating getting help and your firm. I had a tough month mentally. But I reached out to my local bar’s LAP. I’m starting the process of seeing a therapist. But my dreads still here. I’m panicking about being short on hours, falling behind on my cases and explaining to my boss I know I’m behind at work but I am working on it. Any advise will be greatly appreciated.

What is the HRA policy in Accenture? I got to know that i can't claim HRa if my base location is city A and living in a rental accommodation in City B?
Is that true?

Guys keep posting hikes ..but be truthful about it.

Recently started freelancing and working from home and realized that I really need a quality office chair cause my current one is killing my back. Any suggestions below $500 if possible?

Can anyone help me find a site on Oracle EPM cloud? I guess there used to be a page where you could plug in metadata around business industry, revenue, number of users in finance... And then it would give the business case/value of implementation in dollars. It was an interface that had plug and play functionality. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Where are my sexy male engineers at?

Who hates AEM?

I am interested in getting the AWS Cloud Practitioner cert (foundational). I’m tech-savvy, but have not been involved in Cloud work. Any idea on how difficult the exam is?

Hi folks!

I have been selected for senior engineer role at nagarro. I was hired for Full stack role (MEAN Stack). My joining is next month - Nov. I have no friends here and I don't know how is the culture and WLB at Nagarro. Please help me out. Also I have been reading many -ve comments regarding bench and firing. Is it true? Should I still look out for better ?

In short - I am very confused and nervous.

HR is scheduling the interviews without checking time with me. One interview was scheduled and then it was rescheduled to a different time at last minute. I wasn't available at that time so I mailed the HR for a different slot. They again scheduled it for a later date without checking the time with me.

I think I'm really bad at communication, storytelling, active listening etc. I'm good at 1-1 relationships, but really bad in 1-many scenarios. I just sound stupid often. Feel like I'm surrounded by people who communicate so much better. Has anyone improved their comms skills as they progressed in their careers? Any tips or courses that helped you on the way?

Hi fishes, do qualifications like B.E, BCA or BSC decide the CTC?

Looking for opinions on Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester in Southern California.

Somewhat recently lateraled from a large firm to a small firm and I’m starting to feel very micromanaged. Any tips on how to deal with this?

I'd love to see stats on divorce rates in NYC Big Law vs. general population

A friend literally asked me if I could help her with her divorce. I was like, I'm a tax lawyer who bills 2700 hours, so, no, not even emotionally

Should I transfer my UBE to a few other jurisdictions just so that I can be licensed in other states? Any cons aside from CLEs/costs?

At an ID firm, but doing 30% ID, and the rest is appellate work + appellate work in a different area of law. Team is amazing—well known people in the legal community. I love appellate work, want to be a state ct appellate judge ultimately. But I’m scared I’m locking myself into ID. What should I do?

Is anyone aware of a tax software (e.g., TurboTax) for preparing a form 706? For personal use, so cannot be a commercial license only product.

Opinions on career clerkships? Especially with a two year old and wanting another child eventually.

Could anyone shed some light on the working environment at Arnold & Porter? I've been offered a role as a trainee lawyer but wanted to know if its a safe environment in the sense that I could ask for support if I ever needed it.

Many thanks in advance!

Worst stories about leaving your firm to go elsewhere? How did the old firm take it

So the feeling that you’re forgetting something important because you have so much on your plate…that never goes away right?

On average, how many clients do you work on in a day?

Coming up on one full year at an ID firm. Feeling overwhelmed with my experience so far. I’ve received minimal training/feedback unless it was on something I messed up. It feels like the expectations don’t align with my level of experience. I have a case load of 45-55 with very little oversight or involvement from partners. Turnover is extremely high, as I’m the second longest tenured associate in the office. Looking for some guidance on whether this is the norm or not. Compensation is low 80’s.

I have a promising interview at a relatively large law firm in my area (+100 attorneys) next week. The position is for a transactional role in their real estate practice group, and they are seeking someone with at least 2 YOE. I have a bit over 7 YOE with a strong real estate/commercial lit. background. Over the past two years in my current position, I've been doing a lot more transactional work. The split is around 50% transactional and 50% lit.

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Has anyone done a survey for Capvision? I did one on ediscovery vendors that was supposed to pay $100, and now they are asking for bank details to transfer the payment. I’ve done surveys for Newton and they pay by gift card. So I’m a bit hesitant to put in my bank info here—seems like it could be an elaborate phishing scam?

Has anyone transitioned from litigation to corporate counsel/contracts type work? If so, how’d you like the change?

So who else here is experiencing plummeting billable hours and exponential weight gain since this whole WFH thing started? Bought snacks for 30 days, finished in 48 hours.

Is there an appropriate way to turn down an assignment because it is non-billable? Two of the partners I work for keep asking me to write client bulletins and articles with them, which is great, but now I’m starting to worry about meeting my billable hours requirement.

Any insight on NYC firms with great work life balance? Doesn’t have to be cravath scale but something relative to the market.

Has anyone else noticed that a hugely disproportionate number of latinx big law attorneys seem to be white / white-passing?