Welcome people - we're not that many but growing like vines. Talk shop or talk stories about particularly Desi experiences, just talk.

Favorite NYC based experiential production companies?

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.

What does your out of office email say when you’ll be away from your computer and only sporadically checking email over a long weekend?

4YOE @Amazon & trying to lateral to a similar role @FAANG. Have my undergrad GPA (3.8/4) on resume from top 15 school but colleague says to take it off (looks silly). If it’s a good school & high GPA, why ever take it off your resume? Even if 10 YOE...can’t hurt?

I've become really jaded about consulting. I find all so often you need to tell the client what they want to hear to keep their business and I feel like so much of the what I recommend doesn't actually get implemented. I'm looking to make a career switch so I can both create and execute on my strategies. A product management path seems very promising for this.

Does anyone who switched from consulting to product management have any recommendations of h helpful PM books, courses, or programs?

Hi fishes,

1.What level/ band does the principal consultant role at infosys map to? Is it equivalent to Director or Sr Mgr level?
2. How are the projects and opportunities with lifesciences practice? Are there any on-site opportunities?

Thanks in advance

A good company to work for on a small scale not much issue

Need suggestions: So I joined this bank and I was loaned to a different director in my team due to some long term leave for one of his SMs and audit with my director was deferred. The idea was that I would be involved in Fieldwork and take over reporting part. Issue is that I just despise the way this other Director is working. He would assign a task, and then start following up the very next day. And then after I send the document, he won’t even read that for a day!! Contd in comments

Pence is a very composed debater but talking trash. I’m not fooled by his candor. Kamala is speaking with passion and urgency. Pence is just smug.

Are any members of this group producers at an independent agency?

Is Icaro Doria the CCO for Hill Holliday Health too? Or is there a separate CCO?

Thoughts on Klick??? Very intrigued

Guys should I go for Senior Product Manager position at Razorpay or Masters in USA for a year? Not able to decide

Don't miss out 3rd Annual Dementia Congress 2023 on May 22-23, 2023! Recommended by Ruth Finch at 2022 NPA Annual Conference via Whova event app

How do you fellow workaholics find time for dating?

Do any real estate lawyers out there know of/can direct me to a ROFO agreement to purchase commercial property? I’m working on one now (but using a ROFO to purchase equity interests as a basis) and would like to see what other people are doing. Finding a good one has been hard, as this kind of thing isn’t always required to be filed with the sec and every search I’ve done basically pulls up garbage. Also, are there any provisions you’d consider absolutely crucial from the owner’s side?

Considering a change from audit (SM) to an advisory role - looking at a Director position within Strategy, Finance and Accounting M&A. [Insert typical “should I make the jump” question here]. I’m 3+ years to audit partner and weighing options and exhausted by omnipresent inspection risk and how this impacts day to day (and presume it will continue to get worse). Considering the advisory role 1) job security, 2) exit ops, 3) partnership ops. Anyone recently make a similar jump and could share?

Is there any Midwest attys who would like to connect. Recently moved to the area and unsure about practice areas.

Indian lawyers who got their LLMs and later worked in the US - What’s better in the long term? I’m torn between staying here or going back and trying to get a job in a US firm in Asia.

Had to explain "Desi" for the 100th time to someone recently. Thought it'd become a generally known term but guess not.