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Class of 2015 bro here. The biglaw horrors. It's true. All of it
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Date: June 20th, 2017 7:57 PM Author: Bossy dashing quadroon Just don't do it. Do JAG, AUSA, clerk or anything else. Get real skills and surround yourself with normal and happy people. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604513) |
Date: June 20th, 2017 7:58 PM Author: Lime Cruel-hearted Home Are you lit or corp shitlib What do you hate about it shitlib How much debt shitlib How long do you see yourself lasting shitlib |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:00 PM Author: Bossy dashing quadroon Tranny The people, the bullshit work. Lawyers are awful managers and awful people. 10k in debt Not much longer |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:01 PM Author: Lime Cruel-hearted Home Congrats on paying off you're debt. How much did you start with What do you think you'll do post biglaw |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:03 PM Author: Bossy dashing quadroon Not much. I got a good scholarship, lived at home and saved.
Honestly, I don't know. I don't know how people can do be an associate for more than 3 years. |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:03 PM Author: Lime Cruel-hearted Home Cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604558) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:06 PM Author: Bossy dashing quadroon What about you? It might be my firm and practice area but it's fucking awful (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604579) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:08 PM Author: Lime Cruel-hearted Home Lit. Hate it for the same reasons. Fire drills all the time, lawyers are shitheads. I think I could find a way to enjoy the work if there wasn't so goddamn much of it. Hoping ETH moons a little more so I can leave and not think twice about it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604596) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:12 PM Author: Bossy dashing quadroon I was screamed at by a partner and a senior today for being too informal in a one sentence email. I was then called into the partners office where I was reamed out again. He printed out my one sentence email, marked it up and told me to never do that again.
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:14 PM Author: Lime Cruel-hearted Home Lol yea 50% of my work comes from a partner like that. I'm numb to it now but it still sucks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604646) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:15 PM Author: yapping puce pocket flask halford Ljl this sounds horrible. Firm? Sounds like some SulCrom shit.
Not every firm is like that. |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:21 PM Author: Bossy dashing quadroon Guess religion. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604698) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:26 PM Author: yapping puce pocket flask halford If its PW you knew what you were getting into.
V10? |
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Date: June 21st, 2017 3:18 PM Author: opaque internal respiration I could name offhand like five tax partners at V10s this could be. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33610576) |
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Date: June 21st, 2017 1:19 PM Author: snowy slimy field sounds like cadwalader (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33609599) |
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Date: June 21st, 2017 1:40 PM Author: Heady Faggot Firefighter Seconded (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33609766) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:23 PM Author: Cerebral degenerate What did you write?
"OK"? |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:26 PM Author: Bossy dashing quadroon I was too informal "I hope all is well"
This is not flame. Then I wasn't allowed to do any work the rest of the day |
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Date: June 21st, 2017 8:00 AM Author: electric copper piazza affirmative action at one point in my life I would've thought this was flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33607664) |
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Date: June 21st, 2017 6:27 PM Author: Razzle Theater (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33612624) |
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Date: June 21st, 2017 1:32 PM Author: Boyish Voyeur Shitlaw Here,
Ur flaming, right?
What did the P'ner and Senior say when they spit roasted u? |
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Date: June 21st, 2017 5:31 PM Author: chocolate well-lubricated set wait, that's it? they thought "hope all is well" was too informal? I'm calling flame, hot stove brother, hot stove. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33612035) |
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Date: June 21st, 2017 3:30 PM Author: hot marvelous roommate holy fuck. 6th year transactional here, this sounds worse than any stories i've heard people say. sounds like your firm is way worse than normal even among firms with really bad reps. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33610673) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:03 PM Author: Blathering laughsome toilet seat windowlicker u sound like a fag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604555) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:04 PM Author: Bossy dashing quadroon Oh look a pumo defending biglaw. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604562) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:05 PM Author: Blathering laughsome toilet seat windowlicker I'm not really defending biglaw but I worked there over 5 years and wasn't a turbofaggot about it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604571) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:08 PM Author: Bossy dashing quadroon You're most likely a giant asshole who no one likes and a turboqueer for priding yourself on lasting 5 years in biglaw. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604606) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:09 PM Author: filthy appetizing roast beef (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604608) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:11 PM Author: Blathering laughsome toilet seat windowlicker I actually have tons of friends and a chill 9-6 inhouse jerb. I'm hardly "priding" myself on lasting 5 years in biglaw, you dumb faggit; I'm saying it's not a notable accomplishment at all. PROTIP: you are the histrionic loser nobody likes constantly whining about how HARD life and biglaw is. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604616) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:11 PM Author: Lime Cruel-hearted Home (fag) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604619) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:12 PM Author: Blathering laughsome toilet seat windowlicker lol at some whining second year biglaw bitchboi calling me a fag. LJL. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604624) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:13 PM Author: Lime Cruel-hearted Home I'm a third yr shitlib (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604637) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:13 PM Author: Blathering laughsome toilet seat windowlicker , he lisped (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604641) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:14 PM Author: Lime Cruel-hearted Home none of those words were lispable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604650) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:16 PM Author: Blathering laughsome toilet seat windowlicker turbofaggotry... uh... finds a way... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604666) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:17 PM Author: glassy startling cruise ship digit ratio WTF I literally read "third" from you as if it was spoken by Daffy Duck. That's to say nothing of thhhhhitlibththth. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604675) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:22 PM Author: Lime Cruel-hearted Home (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604709) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:15 PM Author: Bossy dashing quadroon Circle back with me tomorrow and lick my asshole (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604655) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:19 PM Author: Blathering laughsome toilet seat windowlicker , he lisped angrily under his breath, finishing my work at 2am while I'm sound asleep. (Btw, I won't get to this until next week.) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604686) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:25 PM Author: Bossy dashing quadroon Lol brother sorry I lashed out. Had a bad day. But lol at the micromanaging passive-aggressive faggots I work with ever letting me talk to you.
More like do that work for a partner or senior who won't look at it for a week and then ask me to make hours of edits to docs that need to go out ASAP awhile they leave for the weekend. Then get yelled at for the work product with zero feedback and then put on another fire drill |
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Date: June 21st, 2017 1:34 PM Author: Boyish Voyeur Lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33609715) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:06 PM Author: underhanded market partner Oh the second year opining on the ***HORRORS*** of biglaw.
Just kidding, it's terrible if you work with bad people. If you'd wound up in a different firm/department you may have had a much less miserable experience. |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:07 PM Author: Bossy dashing quadroon In an awful department and firm. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604588) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:10 PM Author: underhanded market partner Leave. I'm a fifth year who lateraled at about your level and I am so much happier, less stressed, and less overworked at my new firm. Same practice area, just better firm and better people. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604615) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:13 PM Author: Bossy dashing quadroon This is probably cr. But the recruiters all seem like snake oil salesman and I don't know who to use. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604642) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:15 PM Author: glassy startling cruise ship digit ratio Recruiters are all bullshit and irrelevant. The only factor is how hot the market is. I lateraled as a second year and went from non-Amlaw 100 to a v10 because the market was scorching and on the verge of a huge correction. I should've gone to the v40 instead. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604658) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:13 PM Author: glassy startling cruise ship digit ratio Just switch firms and get to 3rd year and then start spamming resumes out for inhouse jobs. Going inhouse is like coming back to the normal world from the upside down. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604634) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:17 PM Author: irate institution macaca Ha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604670) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:19 PM Author: underhanded market partner This is a good plan. Lateral and then spam once you're a little more senior/experienced. Recruiters are bullshit-- use law school connections to get directly in contact with the firm whenever possible. If you're in a really hot practice area / geographic location you can cop a signing bonus, even as a 2nd year. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604687) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:10 PM Author: plum potus parlor Yeah, I've had a good experience due to my firm and department (and have learned how to actually litigate cases rather than just doing doc review nonsense), but there's a ton of bullshit that can manifest. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604614) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:12 PM Author: underhanded market partner I'm close with my law school friends, all of whom went to big firms (most of us are trannys) and it's unbelievable how different our experiences are. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604625) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:18 PM Author: yapping puce pocket flask halford Firms are very very different (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604678) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:11 PM Author: exhilarant box office Start applying to in house jobs and networking to figure out your exit plan. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604620) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:12 PM Author: underhanded market partner Don't listen to this stupid chink-- 2nd year is too early to go inhouse. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604628) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:13 PM Author: glassy startling cruise ship digit ratio It's possible to do it as a 2nd year but much easier and likely to yield a much better job as a 3rd year. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604643) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:25 PM Author: exhilarant box office It often takes people ~2 years of just applying to in house jobs to find something. There are sometimes listings for more junior biglaw people and I'd absolutely take that to get out of biglaw and as a step to better in house in a few years (in house prefers hiring from in house). You also ignored the networking part, which takes time.
Unlike you and 99% of the ttt board, I'm one of the few who successfully exited biglaw, as a shitigator no less, even though it took almost 3 years. |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:41 PM Author: underhanded market partner I was wondering how long it would take you to brag about your job. You made it two whole posts! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604907) |
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Date: June 21st, 2017 8:01 AM Author: histrionic iridescent church water buffalo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33607666) |
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Date: June 21st, 2017 1:37 PM Author: Floppy Brunch She can't help it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33609740) |
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Date: June 21st, 2017 1:42 PM Author: Heady Faggot Firefighter (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33609785) |
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Date: June 21st, 2017 3:26 PM Author: opaque internal respiration Not always true. Some junior positions are a mistake and could stunt a career, but I just hired for one that made a second year cry on the phone when accepting on the spot. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33610649) |
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Date: June 21st, 2017 3:52 PM Author: Tantric Irradiated National good hire lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33610916) |
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Date: June 21st, 2017 4:56 PM Author: opaque internal respiration Girl was working for a literal vampire. Partner keeps a consistent 2PM to 4AM schedule. So she'd frequently be at the office 16+ hours.
Also, some girls get teary easily. NBD. |
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Date: June 21st, 2017 5:00 PM Author: Tantric Irradiated National It's fine lots of people hire hot girls bc they're hot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33611698) |
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Date: June 21st, 2017 5:09 PM Author: opaque internal respiration I'm sure some do. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33611769) |
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Date: June 21st, 2017 4:02 PM Author: Fiercely-loyal sable police squad Lol. Junior in-house? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33611034) |
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Date: June 21st, 2017 4:52 PM Author: opaque internal respiration Yep (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33611616) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:13 PM Author: territorial aqua bbw Yeah just get AUSA right out of school (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604636) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:17 PM Author: Bossy dashing quadroon Abe Lincoln did it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604671) |
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Date: June 21st, 2017 1:12 PM Author: Green indecent keepsake machete Can happen with the right credentials (top of HYS, SCOTUS clerk). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33609515) |
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Date: June 21st, 2017 1:16 PM Author: territorial aqua bbw Yep just have the right credentials, such as top of HYS or SCOTUS clerk (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33609562) |
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Date: June 21st, 2017 1:39 PM Author: underhanded market partner I think he meant top of HYS AND SCOTUS clerk (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33609755) |
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Date: November 11th, 2025 3:23 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK PROLE TELL (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#49420965) |
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Date: June 20th, 2017 8:18 PM Author: irate institution macaca Was going to post today, how do people do this shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33604680) |
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Date: June 21st, 2017 1:54 PM Author: Frozen Lettuce Don't worry, it gets much worse when you are actually responsible for things without oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33609891) |
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Date: June 21st, 2017 3:38 PM Author: opaque internal respiration (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33610735) |
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Date: June 21st, 2017 3:48 PM Author: Crusty Blue Elastic Band Faggotry lol at 10k in debt. would've quit biglaw in my first year if that were the case (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#33610860) |
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Date: November 11th, 2025 3:04 PM Author: butt pumpkins (✅🍑) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3653399&forum_id=2most#49420932) |