Does anyone work at Greenberg Traurig, or worked there in the past? Are they a good place to work, and what has been your overall experience there? Is it a pretty difficult firm to get into? Thanks!

How do ya'll survive your first 90 days at a new job? What are some ways not to piss people off during those first 3 months? Trying to advise my lil sis

I'm moving to the East Coast from L.A. in a few months. Not seeing patients due to covid and using my spare time to plan. Any advice on culture at work, dress codes, etc.?

What's the best way to be supportive of a partner who struggles with addictive tendencies?

What is your socioeconomic background and how much NW do you consider “enough” to be able to live comfortably?

Does anyone work at a firm where legal assistants don't do legal assistant things? For example, I have to do my scheduling and calendaring. I have to upload documents to our file management system. This morning, a name partners assistant didn't realize the name partner had a depo and didn't confirm it. This is how this firm as been for decades and it's incredibly frustrating to work this way. It's so hard to not stress over this daily.

Anyone here being prescribed strattera for ADHD? I got diagnosed today and wanted to hear about your experiences.

Anybody still up and wanna chat??

👿🎃👻 Halloween started early. I was ghosted, again. 👻🎃👿

Hi Tax Fishes,

Anyone can refer me to Deloitte for A2 M&A Tax Role?

Many thanks in advance 👏🏻

Where do you find nice typefaces? Adobe TypeKit isn’t looking too hot right now.

ab purposeless life jine me bilkul maza nahi aata... wahi roz ki chik chik ghar me, harami rishtedar aur office me stress aur politics.
kya karein kaha jayein...

Could be a silly question — i am beginning to look for a new apartment in the city and ideally want to rent from private landlords rather than going thru Apartment People / @ Properties / Compass, etc. How do you find private landlords?! I have good credit and am very clean! A landlord would love me lol

On another time, a younger me would have loved the Porsche Heist ad. Now, however, the concept just feels dated (and a bit lite for Porsche). Fun to shoot tho. Am I the only one?

AirPods or Bose QC35?

Software Development/ Tech Consulting/ Product Management. Which pays the best in terms of money and WLB in the long run?

Trying to lateral from boutique corporate law firm to mid sized/big law. I’ve had 3 interviews - all three declined to move forward. Did anyone make a game changing adjustment to their interview strategy? Advice plz!

What’s a normal bonus for an am law 200 firm? Northeast regional.

What types of lit mid law or boutiques are better WLB than big law? Is this even a thing or just a myth?

Oil and gas attorneys what do you do?

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

About to start a new position doing cross border securitization and structured lending transactions. What should I expect as a first year and how can I prepare?

Has anyone taken  ACAMS Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS)? Any comments/ reviews? How has it enhanced your employability? Why did you take the CGSS?

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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Best approaches to get my partners to help with my push to partnership? Appraisal meeting coming up soon.

How realistic is it to move from an in-house counsel role to the business side (strategy / finance / sales)

What is everyone’s thoughts on the best case management software, preferably either with or compatable with document automation?

Any advice for an incoming lit junior (NYC V10) for getting as much substantive experience as possible? Worried about just doing mega case doc review. Is the answer to do as much pro bono as possible?

BigLaw M&A: what do you consider to be “big deal” vs a small and medium deal? For example, what do you consider a $150M deal?

Giving a CLE on practical tips for young lawyers, which focuses on practical tips such as looking for leadership opportunities and client development. We want to give a hand out of resources we’d recommend, like books, podcast, etc. Any recommendations for resources we should include?

Is your firm monitoring attendance? Today we got scolded like children at school for not coming in 3x a week as required by the new firm policy.

Why did you decide to leave your first firm job? If you had a chance to jump ship but stayed, why did you stay?

How difficult is it to move to Big Law if you’ve only worked at small firms as a junior associate? It seems like a bubble you can’t infiltrate if you didn’t make your start in big law during OCIs

Any advise for wrist pinch pain? (Not looking for the surgery route). I also have an ergonomic keyboard.

Trying to explain billable hrs to hubs. I billed 160 this month, which he said “is only 40 hr weeks” (true) - but how many hrs do you figure you “work” or are in the office to bill 150?