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Poll: Draft by "End of Day" Means 5 pm, 8 pm, midnight, 9 am next day?
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:13 PM Author: exciting pearly kitty Also--your time or their time? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49564535) |
Date: January 5th, 2026 3:15 PM Author: bipolar meetinghouse dragon your time eod 12am (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49564546) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:18 PM Author: Motley gas station boistinker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49564549) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:20 PM Author: exciting pearly kitty Why midnight? Assume you don't have a reason to think the people waiting on the draft are going to do another turn in the wee hours of the morning. So, at that point, what's the differences with doing (and billing for) a few more hours and sending it at 3 am?
And at that point, what's the difference with waiting to send it at 7 or 8 am, before the next workday starts? |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 4:50 PM Author: Cracking Ape Box Office “Assume you don't have a reason to think the people waiting on the draft are going to do another turn in the wee hours of the morning.” what kind of penny-ante hobbyists are you working across from? |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:18 PM Author: Disrespectful temple eod = midnight cob = 1700 |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:20 PM Author: dashing liquid oxygen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49564562) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:51 PM Author: Vivacious Indian Lodge Cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49564673) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:53 PM Author: Aqua trailer park (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49564678) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:19 PM Author: Passionate apoplectic parlor death wish "When it's done"
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:21 PM Author: exciting pearly kitty What if it's not done until after EOD? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49564564) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:26 PM Author: Passionate apoplectic parlor death wish Will flip this to you ASAP, thanks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49564579) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 11:45 PM Author: sable hairless queen of the night (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49565826) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:20 PM Author: Abusive mischievous feces depends on the context. court filing? midnight. in-house? like 2pm. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49564560) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:23 PM Author: exciting pearly kitty Court filing is easy insofar as there will be a Local Rule.
For other work, I don't want to scramble to get things done by 2 pm--especially because it means I might get the next round of comments back the same day. I want to chill while things build up throughout the day, then scramble through several things between about 4:30 and 5:20. |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:38 PM Author: Abusive mischievous feces it depends on your office culture and who else is involved (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49564624) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:25 PM Author: violent laughsome lay Biglaw trannies are also midnight, but 10 pm is far more appreciated because it lets others bill easy hours before bed. Inhouse 2 pm is only west coast with east coast audience but most people specify “COB” and that means get it out by 4 your time so others have the option of reviewing before they leave to pick up their kids or after they put their kids to bed (they won’t actually review or respond for at least a week). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49564576) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:31 PM Author: exciting pearly kitty Setting an artificial 4 pm deadline is wild. If someone wants to review it that day, they should say so and specify a time. People get jammed up with meetings, multiple agreements to review, poasts to make, etc.
Absolutely CR re "they won’t actually review or respond for at least a week," btw. There are two times for responses--5 minutes after you send and late next week. |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:39 PM Author: histrionic sapphire international law enforcement agency black woman I’m absolutely swamped with poasts to make (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49564630) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:42 PM Author: violent laughsome lay Yes. The point of the 4 pm deadline is for them to pretend that they are hardworking and for you to pass your own self-imposed shit test. But the logic of this makes sense the more exposure you have to senior execs/SVPs and other managers of managers who are running large organizations. Most of what they do is at least partially performative. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49564645) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:25 PM Author: charismatic tattoo toilet seat 2pm if a scientist needs to review it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49564577) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:39 PM Author: dashing liquid oxygen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49564629) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 5:06 PM Author: canary adulterous whorehouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49564881) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 10:45 PM Author: Salmon fantasy-prone athletic conference genital piercing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49565722) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:35 PM Author: sooty volcanic crater usually means "within the hour" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49564613) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:44 PM Author: white useless location 9 or 10pm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49564647) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:54 PM Author: exciting pearly kitty Why those times? At 9, I might just be logging back on after the kids go to bed. So, getting the draft out before I go to bed matches the EOD and my schedule better. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49564680) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 4:47 PM Author: deranged kitty cat It generally means 5 or 6pm in the requestor’s time zone if the person is either important or a client. In other cases it means before they log on the next morning.
Worst thing you can do is send it early enough to get comments back that night, after you’ve rushed to get it out, screwed off online for 90 mins to recuperate, and finally turned to the other work you were supposed to get done yesterday/today/last week. |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 6:09 PM Author: exciting pearly kitty What is requestor is in Europe? Or you're on west coast, requestor is on east coast?
In either of those cases, it should mean before they log on the next morning. |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 8:29 PM Author: chestnut heady den in house it means 5 to 6pm. biglaw it means midnight. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49565377) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 10:26 PM Author: Mind-boggling sepia institution macaca Cr. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49565691) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 11:44 PM Author: comical casino (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49565821) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 10:18 PM Author: Salmon fantasy-prone athletic conference genital piercing More precisely in biglaw, end of day means “before you go to bed and before I wake up.” But you better gird your ass if you misjudge that and get a “Where is the draft?” at 4 am. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49565681) |
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Date: January 6th, 2026 8:13 PM Author: deranged kitty cat There’s going to be more punctuation at the end of that 4am email (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49567806) |
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Date: January 7th, 2026 3:05 PM Author: Salmon fantasy-prone athletic conference genital piercing lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49569664) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 11:45 PM Author: frum floppy sanctuary rigpig At the end of the day, what does it matter? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49565824) |
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Date: January 6th, 2026 8:15 PM Author: ultramarine locale close of business means by 5pm, but end of day is anytime by midnight for biglaw and by tomorrow dawn for mid-tier firms. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49567815) |
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Date: January 7th, 2026 3:06 PM Author: Salmon fantasy-prone athletic conference genital piercing You got it reversed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49569669) |
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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:42 PM Author: Salmon fantasy-prone athletic conference genital piercing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2id.#49587793) |