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Irate fragrant tanning salon electric furnace
  07/12/18
Curious about stories where you left within 1 year because t...
Irate fragrant tanning salon electric furnace
  07/12/18
happens all the time. most laterals are on the way out the d...
onyx cruel-hearted immigrant
  07/12/18
fuck’s sake
Irate fragrant tanning salon electric furnace
  07/12/18
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onyx cruel-hearted immigrant
  07/12/18
I want to leave to get a fresh start. I used to be a great a...
Irate fragrant tanning salon electric furnace
  07/12/18
"Fresh starts" don't normally work. You are who yo...
Medicated Pearly Boiling Water Stage
  07/12/18
cr. law is ONE WRONG MOVE. no fresh starts
onyx cruel-hearted immigrant
  07/12/18
You don’t think it’s feasible to turn things around by, eg, ...
Irate fragrant tanning salon electric furnace
  07/12/18
You either have the passion for the practice of law in you o...
Self-absorbed house-broken state knife
  07/13/18
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cyan beady-eyed cuckoldry goyim
  07/13/18
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vivacious peach legal warrant associate
  07/13/18
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onyx cruel-hearted immigrant
  07/17/18
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Dull spectacular theater stage
  07/17/18
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Brilliant vigorous milk ape
  07/18/18
gas yourself
purple plaza kitty cat
  07/12/18
mods
Arousing institution trump supporter
  07/12/18
I cant imagine nit regretting a decision
histrionic nursing home friendly grandma
  07/12/18
i regret my inhouse move more than my lateral move. at my s...
misanthropic casino toaster
  07/12/18
The gravy train ends eventually
ruddy mad-dog skullcap bbw
  07/12/18
Why’d you regret in-house? Yes I’ve learned there’s a pri...
Irate fragrant tanning salon electric furnace
  07/12/18
What’s the price
ruddy mad-dog skullcap bbw
  07/12/18
You don’t learn anything. I do want to grow as a profess...
Irate fragrant tanning salon electric furnace
  07/12/18
This is exactly why I left my firm. I liked the people but w...
navy sweet tailpipe parlor
  07/17/18
big paycut for what are ultimately the same hours more or le...
misanthropic casino toaster
  07/13/18
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Irate fragrant tanning salon electric furnace
  07/13/18
yeah, in retrospect, I should've kept it that fumble cost u...
Irradiated honey-headed national security agency
  07/12/18
Kind of. Lateraling is difficult. Not the interviews, but ...
Arrogant Church Building
  07/12/18
It’s 180 if you just want to skate through biglaw. Who the f...
ruddy mad-dog skullcap bbw
  07/12/18
No one, but you have to stick around long enough to land som...
Arrogant Church Building
  07/12/18
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onyx cruel-hearted immigrant
  07/12/18
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Self-absorbed house-broken state knife
  07/17/18
I live my life a quarter mile at a time.
shivering brass preventive strike hall
  07/13/18
Apparently firms ask you for your previous year’s billables ...
Irate fragrant tanning salon electric furnace
  07/17/18
“Sure, no problem: I billed 8,760 hours last year. Thanks.”
Self-absorbed house-broken state knife
  07/17/18
run!
Bistre indian lodge international law enforcement agency
  07/17/18
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Arousing institution trump supporter
  07/17/18
Srsly...is this normal?
Irate fragrant tanning salon electric furnace
  07/17/18
I’ve heard it once or twice during the height of ite. Seems ...
Bistre indian lodge international law enforcement agency
  07/18/18
recruiter I'm working with says it's normal. seems like bul...
Irate fragrant tanning salon electric furnace
  07/18/18
All of the above plus none of the associates who have been w...
Aqua multi-billionaire
  07/17/18
50 places higher! “You’re my Bumble 5, sugar, baby.”
Irate fragrant tanning salon electric furnace
  07/17/18


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Date: July 12th, 2018 2:09 PM
Author: Irate fragrant tanning salon electric furnace



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36412534)



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Date: July 12th, 2018 2:11 PM
Author: Irate fragrant tanning salon electric furnace

Curious about stories where you left within 1 year because the fit ended up being so poor. This is my biggest worry.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36412544)



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Date: July 12th, 2018 2:16 PM
Author: onyx cruel-hearted immigrant

happens all the time. most laterals are on the way out the door at their old firms, otherwise why would they leave? so they're kinda desperate or not that good associates in the first place or dont like the shitty job and dont work that hard... and there's more pressure as a lateral unless they get dropped into a big group w/ no accountability, and they flame out pretty quickly.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36412573)



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Date: July 12th, 2018 9:10 PM
Author: Irate fragrant tanning salon electric furnace

fuck’s sake

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36415475)



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Date: July 12th, 2018 9:11 PM
Author: onyx cruel-hearted immigrant



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36415491)



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Date: July 12th, 2018 9:38 PM
Author: Irate fragrant tanning salon electric furnace

I want to leave to get a fresh start. I used to be a great associate but completely fell apart after breaking up with the LTR that brought me to the city. Fell into a typical downward spiral for about a year or so after that that hasn’t really stopped. Started drinking alone. Performing poorly at work. Losing trust / damaging work relationships. Avoidance. More drinking to cope. I want to just tell someone that I’m all fucked up and need a legit sabbatical or something, but I’ve got $110k in loans left to pay down so I’ve continued limping along to collect my paycheck. But it feels wrong. I don’t like the feeling of “coasting.” I didn’t work this hard to get here just to be a cynical, depressed parasite.

Anyway. Hoping a clean slate will provide the kindling to get my motivation back. Will really suck to be wrong.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36415716)



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Date: July 12th, 2018 9:44 PM
Author: Medicated Pearly Boiling Water Stage

"Fresh starts" don't normally work. You are who you are.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36415784)



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Date: July 12th, 2018 9:46 PM
Author: onyx cruel-hearted immigrant

cr. law is ONE WRONG MOVE. no fresh starts

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36415802)



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Date: July 12th, 2018 9:53 PM
Author: Irate fragrant tanning salon electric furnace

You don’t think it’s feasible to turn things around by, eg, lateraling to low COL home city where all your friends and family are? Maybe you’re right, but I guess I’m more optimistic.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36415839)



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Date: July 13th, 2018 2:25 PM
Author: Self-absorbed house-broken state knife

You either have the passion for the practice of law in you or you don't. It's not something that's situational or contextual. There's a fundamental fiber in the universe that is either in or not in all of us. Some people only have it as a faint presence--they might sense a potential statutory inconsistency as they read the morning daily news, or muse about, for a passing moment, whether a new city regulation was artfully drafted or not. Those people are law sensitive but, at least without training, not truly of the law. Others have law levels so highly charged that, almost despite themselves, their minds are attuned to the scholarship and art of the law from the earliest of ages. Even in their raw form, such individuals are legal forces to be reckoned with. With training, they might rise to the level of being asked to join a deal team or strike force under the auspices of the legal order, assuming they can find a partner mentor to apprentice them. It is important to remember, however, that simply because one's legal level is high does not guarantee that that innate talent will be put to a good end. There are some in the world who are possessed with extraordinary levels of jurisprudential potency but who have chosen to direct that strength toward evil ends. The temptation toward this befouled relationship with the law grows stronger over time in the absence of proper training and discipline. These dark lawyers would, unimpeded, threaten the order of the world that we hold so dear. Thankfully, there are those other forces of legal good in the world, ancient and honed orders, who stand opposed to them, and so maintain the intrinsic balance of things. Tradition says that one day a young associate will arrive who will alter this balance and allow the good men of the law to once and for all prevail, bringing order to chaos.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36419744)



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Date: July 13th, 2018 2:33 PM
Author: cyan beady-eyed cuckoldry goyim



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36419801)



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Date: July 13th, 2018 2:34 PM
Author: vivacious peach legal warrant associate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36419808)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 3:02 PM
Author: onyx cruel-hearted immigrant



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36445681)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 11:31 PM
Author: Dull spectacular theater stage



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Date: July 18th, 2018 12:04 AM
Author: Brilliant vigorous milk ape



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Date: July 12th, 2018 10:02 PM
Author: purple plaza kitty cat

gas yourself

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36415940)



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Date: July 12th, 2018 10:05 PM
Author: Arousing institution trump supporter

mods

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36415959)



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Date: July 12th, 2018 2:31 PM
Author: histrionic nursing home friendly grandma

I cant imagine nit regretting a decision

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36412675)



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Date: July 12th, 2018 2:35 PM
Author: misanthropic casino toaster

i regret my inhouse move more than my lateral move. at my second firm i got away with murder because i worked for one aspie senior associate who inherited a book from a retiring rainmaker but he did almost everything himself in order to get hours up during his candidacy for partnership, then i recruited 2 URM juniors who did anything i said to show he could "build a practice". I billed <1k hours/yr for 2 years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36412707)



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Date: July 12th, 2018 9:14 PM
Author: ruddy mad-dog skullcap bbw

The gravy train ends eventually

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36415513)



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Date: July 12th, 2018 9:21 PM
Author: Irate fragrant tanning salon electric furnace

Why’d you regret in-house?

Yes I’ve learned there’s a price to coasting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36415568)



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Date: July 12th, 2018 9:21 PM
Author: ruddy mad-dog skullcap bbw

What’s the price

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36415573)



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Date: July 12th, 2018 9:24 PM
Author: Irate fragrant tanning salon electric furnace

You don’t learn anything.

I do want to grow as a professional with actual skills / competencies; I just can’t stand big law

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36415596)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 10:50 PM
Author: navy sweet tailpipe parlor

This is exactly why I left my firm. I liked the people but woke up one day as a fourth year and realized I had no idea how to actually be a lawyer. No arguing in court, barely any substantive filings, not even any depo experience. After a while, coasting for the paycheck doesn’t make up for the fact that you’re nothing more than a meaningless cog in the billing machine.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36449143)



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Date: July 13th, 2018 2:32 PM
Author: misanthropic casino toaster

big paycut for what are ultimately the same hours more or less as my last firm.

you're right that you don't learn much substantively when coasting but most of it's flame anyway and you'll learn by doing on your next job, so long as you can sell your way through the interview with enough buzzwords and anecdotes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36419794)



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Date: July 13th, 2018 5:01 PM
Author: Irate fragrant tanning salon electric furnace



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36421198)



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Date: July 12th, 2018 9:12 PM
Author: Irradiated honey-headed national security agency

yeah, in retrospect, I should've kept it

that fumble cost us the game

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36415506)



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Date: July 12th, 2018 9:41 PM
Author: Arrogant Church Building

Kind of. Lateraling is difficult. Not the interviews, but integrating and sticking around. So much so that I’d caution against it unless you’re getting pushed out or are switching practice groups / locations / something similar.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36415755)



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Date: July 12th, 2018 9:42 PM
Author: ruddy mad-dog skullcap bbw

It’s 180 if you just want to skate through biglaw. Who the fuck wants to stick around?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36415767)



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Date: July 12th, 2018 9:45 PM
Author: Arrogant Church Building

No one, but you have to stick around long enough to land somewhere good. Lateraling after 2 years and flaming out at your second firm in under a year is a good way to fuck everything up.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36415787)



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Date: July 12th, 2018 9:47 PM
Author: onyx cruel-hearted immigrant



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36415806)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 3:01 PM
Author: Self-absorbed house-broken state knife



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36445668)



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Date: July 13th, 2018 2:49 PM
Author: shivering brass preventive strike hall

I live my life a quarter mile at a time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36419938)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 10:31 PM
Author: Irate fragrant tanning salon electric furnace

Apparently firms ask you for your previous year’s billables when lateraling? Is this typical?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36449046)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 10:32 PM
Author: Self-absorbed house-broken state knife

“Sure, no problem: I billed 8,760 hours last year. Thanks.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36449055)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 10:54 PM
Author: Bistre indian lodge international law enforcement agency

run!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36449159)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 11:02 PM
Author: Arousing institution trump supporter



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36449200)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 11:24 PM
Author: Irate fragrant tanning salon electric furnace

Srsly...is this normal?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36449361)



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Date: July 18th, 2018 12:00 AM
Author: Bistre indian lodge international law enforcement agency

I’ve heard it once or twice during the height of ite. Seems like a place with shit culture

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36449564)



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Date: July 18th, 2018 12:01 AM
Author: Irate fragrant tanning salon electric furnace

recruiter I'm working with says it's normal. seems like bullshit. o well. thanks for the input.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36449573)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 10:57 PM
Author: Aqua multi-billionaire

All of the above plus none of the associates who have been with the firm since day 1 want to see you there. Why should they as they have carefully cultivated relationships with partners, worked their asses off, and then you show up from a firm ranked 10 places higher and are being taken out to lunch.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36449173)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 11:24 PM
Author: Irate fragrant tanning salon electric furnace

50 places higher!

“You’re my Bumble 5, sugar, baby.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024085&forum_id=2#36449360)