For early birds, I like starting my day early (5-5:30 am) but get so sleepy around 3 pm lol. Can you give me tips?!

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I used to be an “early bird,” then I started working as a transactional associate in biglaw lol.

To me the biggest variable is getting sufficient sleep.

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Same. Early bird my whole life, now I just take any sleep I can get.

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Start later… how do you make this work in Biglaw? Maybe it’s a litigation vs corporate thing but most people in corporate tend to be/become night owls

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I wake up at 5am too and gym before office. It’s hard but it’s the only way I can get in lifting and running. One of the ways I help make it work is really try to get ahead of the week on Saturday and Sunday if I can. I’ll bill 6-8 hours over the weekend. That allows me to usually go to sleep around 10-11. It helps that I work with London and New York so folks are often in bed by the time my evening starts to wind down (I’m in Texas). It is exhausting though and I’m usually dead come Friday afternoon.

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Respect but sad

I have never purposely woken up before 6am. Night owl for life.

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I’m in Banking so VERY transactional lol. Tried sleeping at 12 and waking up at 5 am. Maybe it’s
not feasible but god do I like the peaceful calm at 5am!

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Oh I get you, I agree with that then.

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With caveats, and only speaking as a litigation associate, you can do this and be fine. Barring emergencies which of course happened, it was just about clear communication—if you send me something past 8pm, you’ll have my response first thing in the morning. Because I would rather work on it at 5am than 9pm. Functionally it rarely made a difference. I get it depends on practice area but it worked fine for me. Also was a benefit if you could partner with a night owl, basically meant collective availability pretty much all the time 🤷‍♀️

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When you feel it coming on take a brisk 15 minute walk outside. Problem solved.

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I do this—I go to sleep early. My favorite question for supervisors is “can this wait for tomorrow morning?”

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Become the go- to associate for Europe deals- everyone else on the deal will love that there’s someone willingly awake at that time.

In the wise words of Rick James… “c**aine is a hell if a drug”

Kidding. Don’t to coke.

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