One of the partners at my firm inflates his own hours when the associates don’t bill enough to exhaust the budget. IE., billing double what the senior associate billed when the partner hardly participated in the project. None of the more senior partners care. Driving me crazy.

Best Andersonville restaurants? Veg friendly appreciated

Anyone have insight on working in Patreon’s legal department?

Hi everyone
I am currently serving notice period. I would appreciate if u all can help me understand skills & courses to develop during this career break (due to family priorities) apart from pharmaceutical brand management as i am willing to pivot my role into
1. Consulting in life sciences or healthcare or pharma domain 2. Competitive intelligence in above mentioned sectors 3.business analytics in above mentioned sectors.I wud appreciate if u can share a few referrals.Wud be resuming by Jan

I promise you, whatever you have to tell me as I sit down with my lunch is not as important as eating my lunch.

I have an offer from KPMG, and I am in talks with collabera, they are offering about 35% hike which will be 100% hike from my current ctc, while KPMG offers 65% on my current ctc.

KPMG is a research and stakeholders management role and collabera offers strategy role including working direct with VP.

I know the company is pretty small when company to KPMg, should I proceed with the interview?

Yesterday I made a blanket fort with my husband and we watched a movie and ate ice cream. Yes, it was awesome.

Anyone here from NYC? We should all plan a happy hour or meetup! DC and Atlanta blacks always doing something lol

What “self help” books are you guys reading? I just read Untamed by Glennon Doyle and wow, I want to start from the beginning again, but feel like I should read something else. Would love any suggestions.

Whenever I've seen if a client wanted to renew a contract or If a firm wanted to renew my contract I've always posed it I'm considering options X, Y, Z but I really enjoyed working with you and need to know if you're interested in keeping me on. Either way I've enjoyed working with you. Just let me know

What are people's opinions on this phrasing?

Looking for work from home or remote opportunities from companies based in UK/USA/ Australia/Singapore.
I am based out of India and willing to work at the corresponding work hours of the companies hiring me.
Am from accounts, finance, tax and audit background.
Please help me look up the same!

Thanking you all in anticipation.

My best friend has Celeste!

Tax senior with CPA at small firm. Best way to get to Big 4 audit? (LA or OC) Went to non-target so little to no alumni at B4. I don’t mind the switch to a lower title since audit was always my preference and was never a fan of tax (stayed local for family).

Hi Folks
How many rounds of interview conducted at Oracle for SeniorSystem Administrator position?
I have cleared first round . But they are telling there are other rounds too. I am curious please clarify if anyone from Oracle or recently joined .

Hi Folks,

Please like the post, aiming for 11 likes to unlock DM

Also, Which offer is better.

Honeywell - 17 fixed + 4.5 variable
Guavus Thales - 20 fixed + 4 variable

Role - Data engineer
Total experience - 2.5 yrs
Tech stack - Spark, Kafka, Flink, Kubernetes


Thank you.

Hi Fishes, any openings for B.E freshers (2022 batch)? Please help.
If any suggestions on how to apply too, please let me know.

Hi Fishes, please help me with 11 hearts for dm

How long from submitting applications are candidates hearing back from firms in this market?

So, got a bunch of questions from a recruiter, first contact. I guess this my first phone/email screen? Do I need to bother with STAR answers or not?

Hi Guys
Got a mail about CBO Party upcoming Tuesday
What generally happens in this meet ?
It's my year and hence curious to know

Rant: If local counsel has explicitly told you that there is a potential issue with a side letter clause and another contract what possesses you to close that investor in without verifying that this is no longer an issue or giving a heads up that closing is happening so someone can scream stop?

Does anyone else not relate to the “chill paralegal” memes on litigation god?

Are pro bono hours are required or is it up to my discretion? Or if you’re in NY, are you required to do 50 hr pro bono hrs?

Anyone in restructuring in the DC area? Not sure what the market is like for that group, but may be moving there for family reasons. Currently practice in NY.

Real estate / real estate finance associates, is everyone still crazy busy or are you noticing a bit of a slow down? I’m at an Am Law 20 and was crazy this year through most of the summer, but have seen a pull back in workload / deal flow the past few weeks.

Joining GT…Should I choose a company phone or transfer my phone to GTs plan?

Will Feb bar exams be converted to online?

Does anyone know what Kirkland’s billing year is? Aka when do hours start again?

Does someone have a good punch list of things to do before giving notice at a firm?

Any recommended books to read prior to beginning a summer associate position? Transactional/ Corporate & Finance

Which is more painful: watching litigators draft contracts or transactional attorneys litigate?

I’m a 4th year and I’ve never billed contemporaneously for even a one full week. I guess I’d just rather have one day of torture recording all my hours at the end of the month than that extra little torture daily. I’m wondering how common or rare this is in BigLaw. Thoughts?

Paralegals: what’s your least favorite thing about working with attorneys?

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?

Has anyone heard anything about Up or Out? Got an invite a couple of times, but trying to figure out if this is a scam or something.

Which firms that pay market have no hours requirements for bonus?

Anyone stealth layoff, stealth layoff? I heard stealthier layoff. They gave stealthed layoff stealth layoff. Stealth layoff stealth layoff.

Is it a big deal if a partner questions how much time you spent on something? Can’t they just write off time that seems excessive, or am I missing something? Sometimes I take a really long time to do things because I switch matters frequently, and I do a lot of research to make sure I’m doing things right.

Fish, I trust your advice. Anyone have leads or recruiter recs for SF biglaw litigation? Looking to lateral as a to-be second year, mostly antitrust/white collar.

From a vault ranking perspective, is it safe to assume V100 is all sweatshop big law? Reason I ask is because I want to lateral but not to a gunning big law firm — want to stay in big law but not at the ones at the top of the food chain like I am now. Want some sort of work life balance and wondering if the “lower ranked” big law firms offer this? Could just be my fantasy though…