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Why would anyone go to jones day
More first hand experience. Seriously. Don’t work there.
I was in a specialty group that worked on a lot of finance stuff at JD. It was rarely their deals that had me up working at 1am.
Generally, JD is no better or worse for WLB than other law firms. Which means, it's pretty bad. Blackbox comp is also a downside, but I was always at market.
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I work at JD in a transactional group. You will end up working as much as every other biglaw firm, so go to the firm that actually gives covid and other special bonuses. Not getting covid bonuses from JD is a joke.
That was the catalyst for my departure. No special bonuses when my friends' firms are making it rain? I was out once my annual pay increase was only 'market' without the covid bonuses. And then that came late after initially being on hold while all these bonus announcements were being made.
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I wouldnt work in our NYC office. Undermarket pay for market work. I work at a non-major market and its fantastic. Best pay in region by far and highest quality work. Great coworkers and projects.
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I'm in Pittsburgh but all of my friends (in non-nyc /dc offices) love their experience.
‘Milbank finance’ is ambiguous. They have a bunch of different finance groups (eg, Project Finance, LevFin, Direct Lending, T&S finance). Which group are you considering?
Hi OP,
I’m at Milbank in the Structured Finance Group. This group is about 80% CLOs and of that about 75% of the work is representing collateral managers. The other 20% is leveraged lending with a structured component (usually backed by pools of loans or other general intangibles).
Hours are bad. I bill about 275-300 a month. People are fine to work with. Not very social and pretty staid.
When I was junior I rotated through a few other groups in including Lev Fin and know people in other groups as well. I’d say that all finance practices at Milbank work all the time (hours are probably more comparable to a place like Latham or STB than MoFo or Allen and Overy).
Happy to discuss more if you’re interested.