How often do you check your emails while working and how do you keep them from distracting you from the current matter you’re working on?

Im a traditional planner that has been helping the social team with reporting as an attempt to switch over. They just hired a new coordinator and now they have me training her on reporting 🤦🏽‍♀️

When taking over managing a project that’s already in progress, what’s your go-to method or process to figure out what the hell is going on holistically?

PC win or lose?

Recommendations for best place for Botox? First timer to Botox in general

I’m doing a part time photography on weekends. I do individual pictures, family pictures, couple pictures etc - I charge 250$ for a 3 hour photoshoot. DM if interested

I just don’t know you guys. To vaccinate or not to vaccinate? The logical side of me says just do it. But there’s something that’s stopped me and continues to stop me… not sure what.

my 21 year olds niece, Peruvian citizen, would like to take the SIE. We know she doesn’t need to be sponsored by a firm, but as a foreign citizen, would she be permitted to take the exam? Additionally, does she need a U-4 prior to testing or can she just hold the passing certificate until she finds a firm?

Anyone here who has relocated to Goldman Sachs in SLC can help me in answering some questions related to their relocation allowance? Thanks,

What are the chances of lateraling from BCG as a principal to McK/Bain as an ~AP equivalent? I’m a BCG lateral hire in the US that was just promoted but almost never get to work in the industry where I have the most interest/expertise. Would be interested in switching if I could get back to my industry. Is it possible at this level? Would appreciate any advice.

My company’s immigration counsel wants to put my office address and my “WFH” address (aka my home address) on my H1B application. Is this standard? Will it result in making my home address publicly available online? Any other reasons for concern with that?

I'm just curious.... what is the perception of EYs healthcare practice?

This week in homebuying horror stories: offered $60k (10%) over asking on a house. Got beat by a last minute all-cash offer from an out of state buyer who was buying sight-unseen.

This is the worst.

Booz Allen or Deloitte better for Cyber?

Hi fishes,
Anybody have any idea about Google Script developer and it's career opportunities?

Best career advice?

Can't believe I'm saying this but I wish I had less responsibility at work. I haven't even been practicing for three months and I have a docket of 50 cases with free reign and almost no guidance over all of them.
Is it normal to feel this pressured?

Considering lateraling to the NYC office of a Boston-based BigLaw firm. My current firm is HQed is NYC. Are there any downsides to working in a “satellite” office?

First year call- is it normal to keep getting ghosted by recruiters? I sound like I’m five but Why are they so mean 😩

Any words of wisdom for managing an increasingly intense workload as a junior associate? Im corporate/transactional but because of my specialization I’m being brought into litigation matters for regulatory analysis. As such, I have 4 separate groups giving me work. I like being busy but it feels like everything needs to be done yesterday and my plate is quite full with more to come.

Is there an expectation of a certain number of delivery requests being sent to an Uber Eats driver? Could there be a breach of contract if one driver notices others constantly being sent delivery requests by Uber but he waits 4 hours at a time without being sent a single delivery request? Is there any claim this person can bring? It has affected them financially. Initially, this was not the case but over time, the requests have significantly decreased.

Want to get the perspective of younger attorneys. We’re a 4-attorney firm (2 partners, one associate, one OC) looking to add a 5th attorney. I left a mid-sized litigation firm on the East Coast where I was a partner to open my own firm. Decision was driven by quality of life. We are a civil lit firm. We don’t have billing requirements per se. We have expectations, but we’re reasonable - big on flexibility & quality of life. What are young associates looking for when evaluating job opportunities?

Securities Law Transition - I’m 3 years out of law school and work for the State prosecutor, but I used to clerk at the SEC and want to transition back to securities. Any recommendations on how to do that?
The goal would be to try to get a job at the SEC.

I have 2-hour interviews 3 times this week. My firm requires that attorneys be in the office unless they need to work from home for some (good) reason. How can I attend the interviews without drawing suspicion? Note: if I say doctors appointment I’m worried my boss will ask for documentation.

I am currently a gov attorney at a major metro area in the northeast. I recently received an offer from a ID private firm (1900 billable hours) in the area for about 40k more than my currently salary. I was going to accept, but now I’m having second thoughts about leaving a secure gov job with good benefits. Really not sure what to do.

Hi! Can someone please tell me what would be the base salary for a legal counsel at Equinix? 5 years of working experience related to the position.

What is the average annual salary increase for a first year associate starting at $125k at a busy midsized firm in New York? What would be reasonable to ask for (assuming a $300 billable rate and 1800 billable requirement)?

Please do not judge me as I’ve never done this before…. When asked for a list of conflicts, should I provide list of clients or all specific matters I worked on? It’s a lot!

Anyone else having a difficult time finding motivation to work after receiving a salary cut?? My firm announced a 20% cut on Friday afternoon. It just feels weird and inequitable to work as hard.

Is there a standard for parental leave in this industry? I see more and more big law firms implementing generous policies but not sure that is trickling down to smaller firms.

Me: casually applying to in-house jobs. See this screen: "A cover letter is required." Me: guess I'm here forever

I am working with a partner that assigns highly complex projects with a lot of responsibility but then gets angry and impatient when I ask questions or bill longer trying to figure things out on my own. It’s a lose lose. Any advice?

Is it reasonable to be expected to spend 20-30 non-billable hours a month checking your paralegal’s work? (i.e. summarizing hundreds of records and bills). The partner said he “didn’t use paralegals” at his previous firm and eating the time is an “investment in yourself.” Is this common?

Whenever I read “herewith”and “henceforth” I die a little.

Has anyone ever had a series of can you handle this/ run this meeting as a young attorney turn into you running the whole deal…. Senior attorneys are there for questions but otherwise MIA from the deal.