i've never heard to anyone in biglaw refer to anything as a ...	Maize vivacious tank	03/24/14
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they actually still have files presumably	cowardly cerebral private investor	03/24/14
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each shitlaw client's "file" contains multiple mat...	titillating blood rage	03/24/14
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Date: March 24th, 2014 3:23 PM Author: Maize vivacious tank i've never heard to anyone in biglaw refer to anything as a "file." lit people use "case," corporate people use "deal," and people also sometimes use "matter." how did the term "file" get to be shitlaw parlance? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2526126&forum_id=2Vannesa#25250777)

Date: March 24th, 2014 4:53 PM Author: Maize vivacious tank ? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2526126&forum_id=2Vannesa#25251517)

Date: March 24th, 2014 4:54 PM Author: cowardly cerebral private investor they actually still have files presumably (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2526126&forum_id=2Vannesa#25251524)

Date: March 24th, 2014 5:04 PM Author: Maize vivacious tank (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2526126&forum_id=2Vannesa#25251604)

Date: March 24th, 2014 4:54 PM Author: sinister racy candlestick maker boistinker I've also noticed this. Presumably hold over from when there was a physical file that represented the whole thing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2526126&forum_id=2Vannesa#25251528)

Date: March 24th, 2014 4:55 PM Author: titillating blood rage each shitlaw client's "file" contains multiple matters. e.g., his slip and fall, shoplifting arrest, and back taxes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2526126&forum_id=2Vannesa#25251532)

Date: December 18th, 2025 6:19 AM Author: Flesh den coffee pot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2526126&forum_id=2Vannesa#49518704)

Date: December 18th, 2025 4:42 AM Author: Overrated startled electric furnace antidepressant drug Lawyers are the lowest form of life. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2526126&forum_id=2Vannesa#49518677)

Date: December 18th, 2025 4:51 AM Author: cracking high-end liquid oxygen Shitlawyers don't stay long enough at one firm to have any of those things, there's just a "file" that's handed down every time somebody quits, is disbarred, goes to prison, commits suicide, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2526126&forum_id=2Vannesa#49518683)