If we all collectively strike today, then we can make President's Day a real holiday for us. Who is in?

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HBS Applicants - How did you differentiate roles and responsibilities from key accomplishments?

Anyone else got a HR catch-up scheduled this week? No info given on what's it about

Is a sloped floor of 1/2” over 10’ noticeable? I have to make room for conduit and cannot trench in my current place

Is comcast a service based company?

Good morning everyone! I am currently working as an Occupational Therapist at a Level 1 center but am looking to pivot into the clinical research field. Can anyone give any insight into transitioning from bedside to clinic research? Everytime I look online there seems to be certificate programs that may or may not be a scam/waste of money. Would appreciate any thoughts, insight, personal experience, referral., etc.!

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Autocorrect and predictive text keep thinking they’re better writers than me and I don’t know why it bothers me so much.

Is there good project opportunities in globallogic nagpur location?

Is the amazon application status of active vs archived (not in consideration) accurate?

Looking for a referral! First switch from TCS

Yoe: 3.9

Skillset: python, shell scripting, linux, hadoop ecosystem (hive, yarn, HDFS, solr/kafka, scala, map/reduce, Cloudera manager, oozie) datadog, cymatics, nomad, consul, teamcity, jenkins, Git, ansible, Docker. Rest API's

I think with with skillset, i might fall into DevOps category. But still any challenging role is accepted

What’s the M1 Tax salary in OH? I would be renting, please share the cost of 2/3 bed apartments. Thank you.

Do you have to take the SIE before the series 7. My job bought me the series 7 books and I started studying but I am finding out I need to take the SIE first or does it matter?

How am I working out a part time employees holiday entitlement? The employee works 16 hours a week over 2 days.

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Hi Fishes,
1 doubt. We usually get a call before the interview scheduling, for discussing our experience, skill sets, etc., At that time itself, most of the recruiters ask for our cctc & ectc. Then they schedule the interview and further rounds.
So my qn is, can we change the ECTC during HR disc. from what we mentioned in the initial call (before the interview)

CD salary in SF? Mid size shop

Curious to know if anyone has switched from audit to consulting at big 4 and if they did it without a CPA? Also pay range after about 4 years in audit moving into consulting?

I lateraled into a niche practice group in Sept 2021. I also have a 1 year old and have been mostly remote since I started - but have been keeping busy tracking towards 2400-2500 hours. That said getting to know people only remote has been kind of awkward at times (email only can be tough to decipher) although as a working mom the pros vastly outweigh the cons. Yesterday my main partner asked me to come in Thursday bc he will be there and set a time to meet. Is this good/bad?? kind of nervous!

I’m a true night-owl that begins thinking clearly about 5 PM. I often send projects out after midnight. Early morning emails and calls are an adventure. Has anyone else had to work through this issue? Fight it or embrace it?

If you’re ever feeling like BigLaw is pigeonholing your career, just remember that Rep. Liz Cheney started her career as a project finance associate at White & Case from 1996-1999.

Any big law associates looking to transfer out of Texas in light of the new laws repressing women's rights? My firm has an office in Colorado and a group of 4-5 of us have been discussing transferring today. Rent/Housing is roughly the same in the two states.

Let’s talk speed reading. I’m a slow reader and listened to a podcast recently on speed reading. I’m intrigued. Who here speed reads? How did you learn those skills, and what types of documents do you speed read in practice? I do mostly litigation and am thinking that speed reading would help with research but maybe not things like doc review where you need to review for both responsiveness and privilege.

Any AUSA/DOJ trial attorneys here? What’s life like compared to big law?

Junior keeps sending me their work, but partner never asked me to review it. I am a mere one class year ahead of them. I’m not going to cover for their work product either. In spirit of transparency, How can I politely tell them they don’t need to keep doing this nonsense?

When your seniors aren’t motivated and pulling their weight, it shows and demotivates you. It’s a domino effect. How do you handle these situations? The senior pushes every single thing down and it’s clear to everyone this person could care less. Makes me not care and not want to do anything either…

When is it acceptable for a junior to raise their hand and say they’re drowning? Like billing how many hours on consecutive days? Just getting a sanity check.

I just finished a big jury trial with a senior partner (SP). There were co-parties w/separate counsel. SP mentally checked out, to the point that co-counsel was asking what SP was doing/if SP was okay. I ended up handling most everything. SP did a few parts but went rogue and did things that were offensive/risky/bad for client. It became clear that SP is not performing like SP used to and may be a liability. Do I tell someone at my firm? Don’t want to offend SP or cause drama, but I’m concerned.

Over heard today about bad behavior in biglaw : if you had to explain to someone’s parents or loved ones how you treated them and you’d be unable to do so without feeling awkward or embarrassed, you are the problem.

Junior Associates - How much student loan debt are you and your peers in these days? A few young partners and counsel at my firm were discussing the student loan moratorium and most of us were convinced we could have paid the majority of our loans off with the bonuses associates got these last two years. But we are all old and when we graduated 150k to 200k was about the max student loan debt people graduated with. So educate me. What is the average student loan debt these days?

I had to work Sunday (still am). Should’ve called them Saturday scaries…

Curious - would you consider a lateral move to a lower ranked firm if the practice group is higher ranked than at your current firm? In other words what’s more important - firm or practice group ranking?

Are there any books or other resources that mid levels/seniors/counsel/partners on here have found helpful for the project management / managing junior attorney aspects of your job?

I am not finding a lot of stuff written for lawyers specifically , but there is a lot directed at “managers” in business generally that I imagine could be applicable.

It’s looking bleak, but are any south florida firms hiring juniors for com lit positions?

Any insight on Brewer (either office, generally curious about the firm). I assume comp after year 1 is discretionary, rather than lock-step, given the size of the firm. Would appreciate happiness, horror stories, of whatever “firm culture” falls between the two. DM me if you don’t want to share publicly.

Partners - what was the most stressful year of your career? The year before you made partner? Your first year of partnership? The year(s) you or your partner gave birth?

Anyone work in tech and blockchain? What exactly do you do?

Serious question: what was biglaw like back in the 90s? Did ya'll have big cellphones and catered lunches? How is it different for associates back then versus now?