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tantric infuriating travel guidebook regret
  07/12/18
Curious about stories where you left within 1 year because t...
tantric infuriating travel guidebook regret
  07/12/18
happens all the time. most laterals are on the way out the d...
Bat-shit-crazy Really Tough Guy Marketing Idea
  07/12/18
fuck’s sake
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  07/12/18
I want to leave to get a fresh start. I used to be a great a...
tantric infuriating travel guidebook regret
  07/12/18
"Fresh starts" don't normally work. You are who yo...
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  07/12/18
cr. law is ONE WRONG MOVE. no fresh starts
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  07/12/18
You don’t think it’s feasible to turn things around by, eg, ...
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mods
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  07/12/18
I cant imagine nit regretting a decision
180 black woman
  07/12/18
i regret my inhouse move more than my lateral move. at my s...
Flesh Jet-lagged Philosopher-king Party Of The First Part
  07/12/18
The gravy train ends eventually
disgusting rehab
  07/12/18
Why’d you regret in-house? Yes I’ve learned there’s a pri...
tantric infuriating travel guidebook regret
  07/12/18
What’s the price
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  07/12/18
You don’t learn anything. I do want to grow as a profess...
tantric infuriating travel guidebook regret
  07/12/18
This is exactly why I left my firm. I liked the people but w...
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  07/17/18
big paycut for what are ultimately the same hours more or le...
Flesh Jet-lagged Philosopher-king Party Of The First Part
  07/13/18
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tantric infuriating travel guidebook regret
  07/13/18
yeah, in retrospect, I should've kept it that fumble cost u...
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  07/12/18
Kind of. Lateraling is difficult. Not the interviews, but ...
mildly autistic swollen forum
  07/12/18
It’s 180 if you just want to skate through biglaw. Who the f...
disgusting rehab
  07/12/18
No one, but you have to stick around long enough to land som...
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  07/12/18
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  07/12/18
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Fluffy Twinkling Native
  07/17/18
I live my life a quarter mile at a time.
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  07/13/18
Apparently firms ask you for your previous year’s billables ...
tantric infuriating travel guidebook regret
  07/17/18
“Sure, no problem: I billed 8,760 hours last year. Thanks.”
Fluffy Twinkling Native
  07/17/18
run!
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  07/17/18
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impressive crimson incel station
  07/17/18
Srsly...is this normal?
tantric infuriating travel guidebook regret
  07/17/18
I’ve heard it once or twice during the height of ite. Seems ...
turquoise lascivious national idiot
  07/18/18
recruiter I'm working with says it's normal. seems like bul...
tantric infuriating travel guidebook regret
  07/18/18
All of the above plus none of the associates who have been w...
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Date: July 12th, 2018 2:09 PM
Author: tantric infuriating travel guidebook regret



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Date: July 12th, 2018 2:11 PM
Author: tantric infuriating travel guidebook regret

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: Bat-shit-crazy Really Tough Guy Marketing Idea

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: tantric infuriating travel guidebook regret

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: Bat-shit-crazy Really Tough Guy Marketing Idea



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Date: July 12th, 2018 9:38 PM
Author: tantric infuriating travel guidebook regret

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: Sooty razzle-dazzle reading party

"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: Bat-shit-crazy Really Tough Guy Marketing Idea

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: tantric infuriating travel guidebook regret

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: Fluffy Twinkling Native

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
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Date: July 13th, 2018 2:34 PM
Author: aromatic stag film



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Date: July 17th, 2018 3:02 PM
Author: Bat-shit-crazy Really Tough Guy Marketing Idea



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Date: July 17th, 2018 11:31 PM
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Date: July 18th, 2018 12:04 AM
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Date: July 12th, 2018 10:02 PM
Author: mind-boggling alcoholic stage yarmulke

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: impressive crimson incel station

mods

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Date: July 12th, 2018 2:31 PM
Author: 180 black woman

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: Flesh Jet-lagged Philosopher-king Party Of The First Part

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: disgusting rehab

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: tantric infuriating travel guidebook regret

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: disgusting rehab

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: tantric infuriating travel guidebook regret

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: spectacular bearded gay wizard

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: Flesh Jet-lagged Philosopher-king Party Of The First Part

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: tantric infuriating travel guidebook regret



(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: Very tactful violet wagecucks love of her life

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: mildly autistic swollen forum

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: disgusting rehab

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: mildly autistic swollen forum

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: Bat-shit-crazy Really Tough Guy Marketing Idea



(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: Fluffy Twinkling Native



(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: Brindle floppy office pistol

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: tantric infuriating travel guidebook regret

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: Fluffy Twinkling Native

“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: turquoise lascivious national idiot

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: impressive crimson incel station



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Date: July 17th, 2018 11:24 PM
Author: tantric infuriating travel guidebook regret

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: turquoise lascivious national idiot

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: tantric infuriating travel guidebook regret

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: Unholy swashbuckling legend mad cow disease

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: tantric infuriating travel guidebook regret

50 places higher!

“You’re my Bumble 5, sugar, baby.”

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