Is pursuing a federal or state clerkship worth the time commitment if you plan to stay strictly in corporate or transactional law? A lot of traditional academic advice says a clerkship is the gold standard for your resume, but it seems heavily geared toward litigation and appellate paths rather than corporate transactions. Spending a year or two drafting judicial opinions for a lower salary feels like it might be overkill for a path where direct corporate experience carries more immediate weight.

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Is connect week in Fidelity mandatory for employees ?

Is your work mode still hybrid?
Or
Fully virtual?
Or
Back to office all 5 days.
If you can add the type of firm you’re at, that’s even better.

Some employees received a retention bonus/contract recently. Makes me feel they aren't going to do anything else to keep up with the market inflation, or attempt to retain the rest of the employees. Good time to exit or pray they do a market correction with the year end hikes?

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get into and I think it's because of
experience teaching. Can anyone be if
help with landing an online adjunct
position for teaching college
readiness or success? I think to start
my teaching journey that type of
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Any one out there who has a genuinely informed view of the capacity of a biglaw remote access system (Citrix and VPN) that was designed to facilitate remote working by a fraction (contd in comments)

Thoughts on TBWA/ World Health in Chicago? Contacted for AD role. Currently work in shopper agency on heathcare brands

How to find an opportunity in Big 4 for a 2.5 yrs experienced Java developer. Pls let me know is there any chance of being referred. Thanks in advance.

YOE - 2.5
Skills - Java, Spring
Can join in 50 days.

Received offers from PNC and UBS. Same position. Same benefits. Purely seeking opinions on the companies. Previous experience at EJ. Left to get away from outside sales nature and isolation.

Can anyone throw some light on the average Associate Manager salary in SAT as well as in what range is it... comments from any current AM2 from SAT would be greatly appreciated. Is there any minimum fixed salary that AM2 must be earning?

Who decides the Hike percentage in EY GDS ?

Please help me to understand if counsellor plays any role in hike percentage or is that based on Current rating we have got while VPB announcement ?

How is the work culture/ work pressure at consulting companies like Bain & Co, BCG, McKinsey

Any recruiters on here interested in sap folks on here

Just got a job offer but they are only giving me until Monday afternoon to decide. I'm currently in process at several other firms and the recruiter said they can't/won't give extensions. How bad is it for me to accept and then decline if I get another offer? The other companies would be paying 15-30k more and I feel like that's way too much to give up especially right out of school. I emailed the other companies I'm interviewing with to see if the process could be expedited and (1/2)

If a hiring manager wants to talk to you again that’s a good sign right? I’m just bracing myself for this offer😅

How do you feel about doing Pap smears every three or five years?

Does LTI change joining date , my issue is my notice period is 30 days remaining but due to some dependency it may be extended 10 to 15 days. What can I do in this situation ?

Callback consisted of five back-to-back interviews with exclusively white men. No thanks.

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.

Aside from just time and experience, is there anything I can actively do to advance in my career and get more responsibility / client interaction? I’m a first year

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.

Anyone have any reliable free resources (CLEs, practice guides) for tax law and estate/probate/wills? I don’t have the money for anything paid, but I’d like to selfstudy these areas in the meantime. My state bar and libraries don’t appear to have a practice series or anything like that, so it’s been hard finding something viable other than the ole’ Google and pray.

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?

Anyone transition from litigation to consulting? Not sure how to write a cover letter when I’m interested in consulting but have been a litigator for 4 years

Considering accepting a fully remote role and living in different cities for 6+ months at a time. Anyone else do this and have experiences to share?

I’m studying for the Texas bar using Barbri. I am from a good school in the state (T50) and performed well there, but I am terrified that I am going to fail the bar. Any tips, tricks, advice on how you made it through? Is Barbri enough?

Just found out I will be taking two depositions in the near future. These are not key witnesses but I am still nervous. I’ve only been licensed since October of last year and still feel like I have no clue what I’m doing half the time. Any deposition tips?

Last week- found out my boss, and our firm owner, has stolen from clients by adding expenses we didn’t spend.
Today- boss opens firm despite corona positive employee while the rest of us are waiting on our results. Told me to learn how to do his secretarial work.
What do I do? I can’t quit without another job and I have only been here 19 months. First job I was only at for 9 months so I’m scared to apply to new places.

I’m at a mid size transactional firm. I’m a total night owl and my partners have OK’d me starting the workday at around 11am because I regularly work until midnight or later. I get so much more done after dark! I still get some side eye from other associates, but 🤷🏽‍♀️

Does anyone else here have an unusual work schedule? Curious what adjustments you’ve made to make it work.

Does anyone’s dog look at them with puppy eyes when you leave for work so you tell them you have to go make money to afford their lifestyle? 🤣

Desperately feel like I need to transition from BigLaw (Commercial Real Estate) out of the legal profession and into something more business focused. Any suggestions on where to look to not take a monster salary hit?!

Switching it up- worst airline to fly?

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

Niche practice area, and thinking about moving firms. Without moving cities, there are really only 2 options. I think both would make me an offer and create a position. How should I approach this?

Is it normal or ideal to continue working on a deal in your last week at the firm?

What’s the best way to turn down a 2nd interview? During the 1st interview, I learned that the compensation for the role is not within the range that I am looking for and requires 400 more billable hours a year than what I bill now. I’d basically be laterally for my current salary just to bill 400 more hours. I also wasn’t aware that the local office was strictly ID. Firm website advertises lots of practice areas. Any advice? TIA!

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