PSA for transactional folks: banks are open tomorrow. Clients just found out and are now pushing a closing tomorrow. Yippee.

Hi Fishes,

I have 1.7 years of experience as a azure admin. But I was interested in Devops and Iearned Azure Devops from udemy and cleared the Azure Devops Engineer Exam(Az-400)
I have good knowledge of CI/CD and various concept like Infrastructure as a code (Iac)
proficient with tools like dockor, kubernetes, jenkins, terraform, etc
Now I am looking for Devops opportunity. kindly help

Parents - do any of you truly regret having kids?

Breakup etiquette- we broke up and I was supposed to go to his relatives’s wedding in a couple of weeks. I know the couple, not super well, but have hung out and texted individually as well. Should I let them know I won’t be attending and wish them well or don’t reach out to them?

What is best way to find upcoming/ongoing nft projects and what to check to find their future value? Any tips?

How do you start waking up early? Always been a night owl and sleep around 1. Wake up at 8/8:30 right before work starts.
I need to start waking up early to get into workout /yoga and meditation routine. I tried today and kept snoozing my alarm for 2 hours.
Weekend is way worse when I sleep around 3 wake up around 10/11

Need referral. Thanks in advance
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2022 HOURS CHECK IN

For those of us whose firms start their FY on 12/1, how did you do on your hours this past year?

Happy Halloween, my fellow Tech Pros! I love this Holiday, anyone come up with a creative costume to wear at work?

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?

I'm an Accountant having 6+ YOE in India. Now looking for jobs in EU. Any advice about finding a job in EU

Has anybody stopped paying Canadian CPA dues and let their membership lapse? I'm working in the US and I recently got my US CPA. I can't think of any good reason to keep paying these high annual dues, from what I can tell I'm not getting anything from being a Canadian CPA. Any advice?

Do they provide cab service in Gurgaon or reimburse it?

Hello everyone
This is an out of box question.
I am looking for PGs. Rental flats in shivajinagar (wakadewadi).
Unmarried and based in goa.
Does anybody have contact with brokers or direct owners ?
Your help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you

Shaved my head! I might as well do something crazy if am going to spend more than a month at home. (M here)

What are the zoom happy hours for work like? I have one today that I don’t want to attend but feel like I have to

Every moment I’m away makes me realize how fragile the reasons I stay in the city. How can the city survive the urban flight? Will you stay and why? (I’m staying as long as I can)

Any recipe book recommendations for making cocktails?😋

How is the data practice team at coforge. They told client is an insurance company.
Can anyone share more . about it.

What would be an appropriate gift if I want to show appreciation to my juniors before leaving the firm to go in house? What about for partner/counsel?

Anyone on these food antitrust cases? Not looking to disclose details just wanna know if suffering alone.

What’s the norm as far as bonuses to first years, particularly in V20 firms? Everyone seems to be happy with my work, a well respected partner is “impressed,” but there’s no way I’ll hit bonus hours. I’ve done some pro bono but just was not given much work the first few months and still am not swamped, which I am enjoying. I’ve heard whispers that all first years get bonuses. I’d assume it depends on the overall market and firm specifically but just wondering if there’s a norm among V20.

What does it mean when someone goes on “extended leave”?

How long did your longest matter last? I imagine litigators take the cake here but curious about deals as well.

Any insight on Hunton Andrews Kurth Real Estate practice group? Work life balance, type of people in the group etc. Anything at all would be helpful!

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

Name the most ridiculous micro-managing by partners that you experience.

I’ll go first: MP told me that on initial emails, I am always to start with “Hello [name],” but after the initial email, I am not to address her by name again in the same thread. Initial greeting can only be “Hello [name] ” because just first name is too brisk and a “Hi [name]” is too informal. Had a 5 minute, in depth conversation as to why she prefers it this way…

I work at a ‘free market’ firm and have developed a very good reputation among partners. Naturally, they are drowning me in work. Each time a new case comes up, the partner will email asking if I have “time and interest” in helping. When I’m at capacity, I take these words at face value and explain why I can’t do it, and that seems to work out ok with no hard feelings. But what’s the “interest” thing? If I don’t want to work on a toxic tort case, do I just say that and pass?

My firm’s IT (especially system saving and file locating function) is so bad 😐😞 and they keep doing updates no one asked them for just to mess with the stuff we already got a hang of without doing anything about the issues we actually need fixed. Anyone else in a similar boat? Do you bill the client for the time it takes to fix the IT issue (or IT inefficiency generally, like time taken to find a file in a convoluted system)? Or is that supposed to be our non-billable time?

Are tech trans hours better/more predictable than M&A?

1st yr at a nyc v50 firm doing general transactional work. I know the lateral market for transactional lawyers is hot but not as hot for juniors. I just want a change of scenery because my current firm is bleeding good associates / not giving great training imo / and just seems small. Would lateralling this early feasible? Would it look bad on my resume?

Im a third year and my current firm isn't bad and I'm pretty comfortable here. Im satisfied most of the time. There is one firm I've been keeping my eyes on because of its similarities to where I currently am (nice people, similar hours, culture).

Im a bit burned out now and I would love to take a long break. I'm hoping I can take a break (2 months) between the transition but is this a good reason to move though? Would you move in my situation? Im sure there will be a signing bonus.

I wouldn’t even mind the hours of this job if people were kinder.

Any idea why certain of the larger biglaw firms do not allow descriptive associate website bios unlike the more middle v100 firms?

I have ADD and occasionally make small mistakes in my work, like leaving a word missing when editing sentences, small formatting errors or leaving an internal comment in drafts sent to clients. All partners have been very understanding and care about the quality of my work, and no client has ever complained. Partners and clients praise my work.

But now, one partner has become super mad and when I explained ADD, he said:

Can anyone please advise on Sullivan & Worcester? Is it comparable to Big Law in terms of salary/quality of work and quality of life?

Ah, Fridays. The day partners decide they don't want to work all weekend and dump everything on you.

If you are a first year in a stub year, and significantly under billable hours requirement, do firms typically still give pro rated bonus? Do first year stub associates really ever hit their pro rated hours in those 2-3 months?

Any big law associates high risk for COVID nervous about going back to the office even after you’re vaccinated? I just don’t see how a firm can require 100% of people to vaccinate so nervous about the people I’d be around