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How do choose NYC firms

Is Cravath worth it? Wachtell or some other above market? ...
Unhinged saffron hell elastic band
  07/17/18
I almost teared up at this poa. Hearkens back to a simple...
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Topaz appetizing nowag
  07/17/18
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Unhinged saffron hell elastic band
  07/17/18
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green alcoholic point generalized bond
  07/18/18
choose wachtell because it pays a lot more than other firms....
Cyan church building
  07/17/18
Can you elaborate on the Skadden thing? It does seem they...
Spectacular plaza party of the first part
  07/17/18
Those other four besides wachtell are all peers
crusty fishy spot internal respiration
  07/17/18
(Skadden associate)
chestnut gaming laptop resort
  07/17/18
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green alcoholic point generalized bond
  07/18/18
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  07/18/18
Is Cravath not impressive anymore?
Unhinged saffron hell elastic band
  07/17/18
No. Law students are a lot more savvy nowadays. Most people ...
crusty fishy spot internal respiration
  07/17/18
Had that impression as well. If you were gonna go for broke...
Unhinged saffron hell elastic band
  07/17/18
Way too general a question bro. What do you want to do long ...
crusty fishy spot internal respiration
  07/17/18
...
Unhinged saffron hell elastic band
  07/17/18
cravath isn’t that selective relative to its peers
Cracking crystalline philosopher-king nursing home
  07/17/18
You're 12 years too late. The entire bort is now trying to ...
chestnut gaming laptop resort
  07/17/18
except for you, dumbass. and you're one of the only ones wit...
free-loading bright step-uncle's house striped hyena
  07/17/18
Absolutely Devastating
Spectacular plaza party of the first part
  07/17/18
That guy basically works 100% remote too, lmao
crusty fishy spot internal respiration
  07/17/18
Yes, but I can't just pick up and move wherever -- I'm still...
chestnut gaming laptop resort
  07/17/18
Why not live somewhere cheaper in California? Maybe somewher...
crusty fishy spot internal respiration
  07/17/18
Housing being expensive is working for us now that we own. ...
chestnut gaming laptop resort
  07/17/18
There are more factors in deciding where my wife, kid, and I...
chestnut gaming laptop resort
  07/17/18
(dumbass)
free-loading bright step-uncle's house striped hyena
  07/17/18
(guy who's never been to Buffalo or Schenectedy)
chestnut gaming laptop resort
  07/17/18
Buffalo is gentrifying rapidly
Cyan church building
  07/17/18
On the most relative of bases, yes. I follow along on the N...
chestnut gaming laptop resort
  07/17/18
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Amethyst filthy site
  07/17/18
I dunno about NYC specifically but choose a firm by who you ...
apoplectic state
  07/17/18
What are your goals? Do you enjoy grinding hard and working...
Demanding scourge upon the earth gay wizard
  07/17/18
cravath sends a ton of people to lazard. this is inapplicabl...
Cracking crystalline philosopher-king nursing home
  07/18/18
cleary is tcr if you can handle the office gays
Milky Liquid Oxygen
  07/18/18
You mean the male secretaries ?
crusty fishy spot internal respiration
  07/18/18


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Date: July 17th, 2018 6:08 PM
Author: Unhinged saffron hell elastic band

Is Cravath worth it?

Wachtell or some other above market?

What’s the difference between DP, S&C, PW, etc

Everything seems awful

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36447328)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 6:09 PM
Author: Spectacular plaza party of the first part

I almost teared up at this poa.

Hearkens back to a simpler time on are bort.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36447332)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 6:14 PM
Author: Topaz appetizing nowag



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36447383)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 6:20 PM
Author: Unhinged saffron hell elastic band



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36447427)



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Date: July 18th, 2018 3:52 PM
Author: green alcoholic point generalized bond



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36453689)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 6:10 PM
Author: Cyan church building

choose wachtell because it pays a lot more than other firms. choose cravath because it's very selective and "prestigious." SullCrom and DPW are peers. Skadden is not a good firm.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36447344)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 6:12 PM
Author: Spectacular plaza party of the first part

Can you elaborate on the Skadden thing?

It does seem they take sort of TTT people...like T30 law review types. Not that that's bad, but like, it ain't WLRK.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36447354)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 6:12 PM
Author: crusty fishy spot internal respiration

Those other four besides wachtell are all peers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36447359)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 6:13 PM
Author: chestnut gaming laptop resort

(Skadden associate)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36447365)



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Date: July 18th, 2018 3:52 PM
Author: green alcoholic point generalized bond



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36453691)



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Date: July 18th, 2018 4:18 PM
Author: translucent vibrant rehab



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36453930)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 6:13 PM
Author: Unhinged saffron hell elastic band

Is Cravath not impressive anymore?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36447369)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 6:24 PM
Author: crusty fishy spot internal respiration

No. Law students are a lot more savvy nowadays. Most people know that cravath doesn’t offer much more than other v5s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36447460)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 6:29 PM
Author: Unhinged saffron hell elastic band

Had that impression as well. If you were gonna go for broke and tough out a couple years for max benefits, where would it be? Does the choice just come down to pay these days?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36447496)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 6:51 PM
Author: crusty fishy spot internal respiration

Way too general a question bro. What do you want to do long term? Also are you flaming? Law students don’t really post here anymore

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36447644)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 6:40 PM
Author: Unhinged saffron hell elastic band



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36447575)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 8:12 PM
Author: Cracking crystalline philosopher-king nursing home

cravath isn’t that selective relative to its peers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36448240)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 6:28 PM
Author: chestnut gaming laptop resort

You're 12 years too late. The entire bort is now trying to figure out how to lateral to Jones Day in Cleveland, Columbus, or Pittsburgh.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36447487)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 6:31 PM
Author: free-loading bright step-uncle's house striped hyena

except for you, dumbass. and you're one of the only ones with a connection to a lifestyle market (Schenectady or whatever shithole you're from). yet you insist on living in paloturd altochink

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36447510)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 6:32 PM
Author: Spectacular plaza party of the first part

Absolutely Devastating

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36447515)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 6:34 PM
Author: crusty fishy spot internal respiration

That guy basically works 100% remote too, lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36447524)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 6:39 PM
Author: chestnut gaming laptop resort

Yes, but I can't just pick up and move wherever -- I'm still expected to be available to go to occasional meetings and meet with clients.

I could probably get away with traveling / working from somewhere else for a month or so at a time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36447558)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 8:22 PM
Author: crusty fishy spot internal respiration

Why not live somewhere cheaper in California? Maybe somewhere down the coast? I don’t see the point of living in Silicon Valley if you don’t even have to go into the office

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36448297)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 8:55 PM
Author: chestnut gaming laptop resort

Housing being expensive is working for us now that we own. Our $700k townhouse almost doubled, then we sold. Current house is up at least $1m from when we bought it a few years ago. This is pure luck and could all disappear so I haven't spent it, but I am hopeful that the house continues to appreciate.

The attraction to being in SV is also for wife's job and both of our future opportunities. We could probably sell, pocket some gains, and buy something less expensive in Paso or somewhere on the coast, but if either of us wanted to switch jobs or was forced to, it would be an issue. Much easier to find other comparable jobs in SF or SV than in SLO or Eureka or some place that's cheaper enough to make a move seem worth it.

Wife's parents are 20 mins away, too, and bought to be close to us. Moving away from them wouldn't be a popular decision.

Our daily life is also really nice: My wife has friends here, we can walk or bike to a bunch of parks, a few schools, a library, a couple of suburban downtowns, some grocery stores -- it's really not bad.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36448507)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 6:37 PM
Author: chestnut gaming laptop resort

There are more factors in deciding where my wife, kid, and I live than where I grew up >20 years ago.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36447546)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 6:40 PM
Author: free-loading bright step-uncle's house striped hyena

(dumbass)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36447566)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 6:44 PM
Author: chestnut gaming laptop resort

(guy who's never been to Buffalo or Schenectedy)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36447602)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 8:11 PM
Author: Cyan church building

Buffalo is gentrifying rapidly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36448231)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 8:15 PM
Author: chestnut gaming laptop resort

On the most relative of bases, yes. I follow along on the News and Buffalo Rising. Will always be home to some degree.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36448272)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 6:57 PM
Author: Amethyst filthy site



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36447672)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 8:11 PM
Author: apoplectic state

I dunno about NYC specifically but choose a firm by who you will actually do most of your work for

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36448237)



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Date: July 17th, 2018 8:27 PM
Author: Demanding scourge upon the earth gay wizard

What are your goals?

Do you enjoy grinding hard and working? For example, are you the guy who color coded case briefs?

I see absolutely no benefit to Cravath. It's "prestigious" but all V20 firms are, so who cares. You work harder for nothing. If you're the color coded briefs guy, maybe it's for you.

Does Wachtell still pay 100% of salary as a bonus? If so, that's the obvious pick. Take the money.

Otherwise, pick a V10-V50 firm instead because (with some notable exceptions) you may work slightly less and you'll be around less gunners.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36448329)



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Date: July 18th, 2018 4:17 PM
Author: Cracking crystalline philosopher-king nursing home

cravath sends a ton of people to lazard. this is inapplicable to 99.99999% of people here but it’s a real benefit over say s&c or cleary. as a general rule working at places non-lawyers have heard of maximizes your chances of actually getting the hell out of law

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36453924)



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Date: July 18th, 2018 3:14 PM
Author: Milky Liquid Oxygen

cleary is tcr if you can handle the office gays

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36453359)



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Date: July 18th, 2018 4:05 PM
Author: crusty fishy spot internal respiration

You mean the male secretaries ?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4028651&forum_id=2#36453792)