What do first-year bonuses look like if you surpass your goal by 200 hours? Firm has 1900 req. on track for 2100+ but hear first-years get shafted by virtue of being first-years.

I’m a senior in college currently, and I have a job at Sherwin Williams as a spray gun repair assistant in Green Bay. I’m not looking to stay here the rest of my life, I really like the idea of the east coast. Any midwesterners that moved out east to the Pennsylvania Vermont New York Maine area? How did you like it and what interested you in the east? Anyone here that works at Sherwin? Do you enjoy your career there?

Which company and team do you work in?

What will be tds amount for 12L ctc?

Need CD or ACD writer with consumer tv and campaign experience in NYC to team up with on some sweet projects coming in.

When you’re sketching out a transaction and realize you literally just drew a big-ass pentagram on your whiteboard... The devil really is in the details, y’all.

Looking to return to Big 4 as a consultant now that I have some experience; however, I’m not sure if the reason I’m not hearing back is because of covid or what’s on my resume/lack thereof. Anyone else successfully get hired at Big 4 during this time?

Is Deloitte still doing layoffs? I want to reach out to them beginning of next year but the layoffs are making me wonder if they’re still actively hiring.

Hi I’m a stub year and an associate just threatened to end his own life if he hears another stub year being a stub year. Is this normal for stub years to experience in their stub year? Thanks in advance, Stubby McStubface.

Ni Hao! Ni shi na li ren?

Who has doggos in costumes?! Please share 👇🏻!

Is the office operational now?

I am an Associate in Corporate Cash Management filling in for pat leave. The person is expecting to return in Sept.

There is no guarantee that I can keep this job. So I want to explore what options I have if they don’t decide to keep me.

My current job is focused on RFP writing, product/project coordinating, improving and building models (pricing, net interest income calculator, etc.) not directly client facing.

Do you all work your full 40 hours? I have colleagues that max out at 20 and I just don't understand how

If you felt fine, when did you tell work and why? (Ie not in cases where you were sick, exhausted, etc)

What is the best way to switch to Data science Field given that we know the Machine Learning and Deep Learning Theory but not practically?

Also generally how is the work life balance in the job for different companies? Any input is valuable

Possible to turn SYW points into cash? I only see the option to use points to directly buy items..

Litigators -
Anyone else just continually dismayed by the sheer amount of work product they are cranking out? It truly feels like I’m on a hamster wheel of one incredibly substantive document, motion, or pleading to the next. While also juggling the other less substantial but still necessary things that are required to keep litigation rolling. I. Am. Worn. Out.
Hoping I’m just in a bad cycle that will eventually give.

Will only probs be 65-70% utilized end of year. Junior, takes into account 3 weeks for honeymoon. Great reviews from partners though (i’m in a small group). Am i ok?

Whoa Cece Xie quit biglaw. Should I quit too? Maybe it’s a sign.

I’m a junior at a “lifestyle” biglaw firm (and it really does seem better than some of the firms my friends are at) and every day that I work late into the evening, I want to rage quit. I’m just so tired of working all the time. I don’t know how sweatshops retain associates. I’m not sure I could ever do it. I’m so tired.

Hi I’m a stub year and an associate just threatened to end his own life if he hears another stub year being a stub year. Is this normal for stub years to experience in their stub year? Thanks in advance, Stubby McStubface.

Poll: Do you have tattoos? If yes, how many? Any visible?

The biglaw scale is _______

A) great for ensuring we're all getting adequately paid

B) a cartel enforcement mechanism to keep us underpaid

C) A & B

Partners, do you care if associates don’t ask for work? I’m slow right now but work in a small office of a v50 so the partners know my availability. Y’all know where to find me.

Thoughts on pursuing an opportunity to permanently clerk for a federal judge? I’ve been told it’s a career limiting move…but would it be limiting in a good way?

Which mechanical keyboard should I get?

Have a 5th interview tomorrow and and 6th sometime next week. All have been with partners. Is this normal? Has been going on for over a month now and now sure how to interpret it.

Has anyone noticed how often Latham is name-dropped in Law and Order? The accused rapist character will literally say like, “You’ll be hearing from my lawyer at LATHAM & WATKINS, LLP!!!!!!!!” How much do you think Latham is paying for this exposure?

Partners and counsel: do you care at all how associates think of you?

How does your firm treat COVID leave? My firm is giving me credit for time off but I was out for nearly 10 days. (the worst version of covid I have ever experienced). I feel uneasy about my November hours as having covid in the middle of the month and the holiday really threw off my productivity and workload. I know it will likely all be fine but need some words of wisdom.

I’m a first year associate tasked with drafting a “simple” credit agreement and I feel in over my head. I’m working off a more complex precedent and I don’t want to go deleting everything. I got as far as updating the names of the parties. Any tips on how to approach this? I feel like I don’t even know what questions to ask the partner who assigned me the work.

Which firms allow fully remote?

What are the pros and cons of a specializing in a public company advisory/SEC reporting practice, as opposed to pure capital markets?

Two days ago I was super excited to accept my offer to join a biglaw firm this summer as a 2L summer associate. I was ecstatic! Now that I've had time to digest it I'm absolutely terrified. I realized that I know nothing about law, how to write a memo, how to use Westlaw or Quicklaw or anything that a summer student should know. I'm petrified that I'll show up this summer make an idiot of myself and not get hired back. Any advice on what I can do to prepare between now and May?

Midlevel associate new to BL but older in age. Because of my prior experience, I have contacts that refer business to me and I can probably charge anywhere between $100-$200k this work. No one at the firm has done this type of work, but I’ve been told it can be helpful*. At smaller firms this would have been good business to bring in. At my current firm, am I making myself look unaware by trying to bring this in? There’s potential to have two or three of these deals in my first few months alone.

Turns out red-lining my baby sister’s resume and cover letter is not what she meant by giving “feedback”….. 🥴