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[DELG]

Is Uber a good deal? Over the summer every time we walked over twenty feet a seasoned attorney would reflexively use Uber. Often, it would take longer than walking. Is it better than a yellow cab? It has really blown up, and doesn't seem to exist in small towns so it would need to be a lot better than hailing.

I wouldn't take in area where you can regular cab by hailing. It's great for places where you can't readily hail a cab.

don't you get a receipt to your email tho

easier to expense

[Desert Fox]

Is Uber a good deal? Over the summer every time we walked over twenty feet a seasoned attorney would reflexively use Uber. Often, it would take longer than walking. Is it better than a yellow cab? It has really blown up, and doesn't seem to exist in small towns so it would need to be a lot better than hailing.

I wouldn't take in area where you can regular cab by hailing. It's great for places where you can't readily hail a cab.

don't you get a receipt to your email tho

easier to expense

Way easier to expense.

[Monochromatic Oeuvre]

Still wouldn't be true even at CCN, much less the rest of the T14.

I can't think of a single person who either: 1) didn't try very hard or 2) wasn't objectively weird as fuck / awful.

"Damn near everyone who's above median, targets NYC, and has an affable personality who tries for Biglaw at a T14 gets it."

...okay.

[Desert Fox]

I should say "as a 2L OCI candidate." If you miss that or get no offered it is brutal as fukkkkkkkkckkkk out there.

Still wouldn't be true even at CCN, much less the rest of the T14.

I can't think of a single person who either: 1) didn't try very hard or 2) wasn't objectively weird as fuck / awful.

"Damn near everyone who's above median and has an affable personality who tries for Biglaw at a T14 gets it."

...okay.[/quote]

I didn't say shit about above median. A huge majority of below median folks get it too. They usually have to scrape their way all fall finding something, but they get it.

[Monochromatic Oeuvre]

I didn't say shit about above median. A huge majority of below median folks get it too. They usually have to scrape their way all fall finding something, but they get it.

(it is 2007)

[bjsesq]

I didn't say shit about above median. A huge majority of below median folks get it too. They usually have to scrape their way all fall finding something, but they get it.

(it is 2007)

What?

[Desert Fox]

I didn't say shit about above median. A huge majority of below median folks get it too. They usually have to scrape their way all fall finding something, but they get it.

(it is 2007)

What?

case in point. Boo had like 6 offers after threatening a hate crime against a managing partner.

[Monochromatic Oeuvre]

I didn't say shit about above median. A huge majority of below median folks get it too. They usually have to scrape their way all fall finding something, but they get it.

(it is 2007)

What?

Straight B's at a lower T14 has probably less than a 50-50 shot at ever getting Biglaw post-ITE.

But I think DF is just bored right now anyway.

[bjsesq]

I didn't say shit about above median. A huge majority of below median folks get it too. They usually have to scrape their way all fall finding something, but they get it.

(it is 2007)

What?

case in point. Boo had like 6 offers after threatening a hate crime against a managingnamed partner.

Get at me.

[bjsesq]

I didn't say shit about above median. A huge majority of below median folks get it too. They usually have to scrape their way all fall finding something, but they get it.

(it is 2007)

What?

Straight B's at a lower T14 has probably less than a 50-50 shot at ever getting Biglaw post-ITE.

But I think DF is just bored right now anyway.

This is far too broad a statement. In my experience, its just not true.

[DELG]

the people who don't let depression take hold and keep grinding are almost always fine

[Neal Patrick Harris]

Straight B's at a lower T14 has probably less than a 50-50 shot at ever getting Biglaw post-ITE.

But I think DF is just bored right now anyway.

lol do you know what ITE means

[Monochromatic Oeuvre]

Straight B's at a lower T14 has probably less than a 50-50 shot at ever getting Biglaw post-ITE.

But I think DF is just bored right now anyway.

lol do you know what ITE means

It doesn't have to be strictly literal. It's been a neologism for the 2008 to ~2012ish period for a little while now.

[chinadoll]

5) I'm at a pretty shitty firm .

I always assumed this was the case. This (implying there is not enough work to go around), or you're still a bachelor with nothing to do with what little spare time you have.

[bjsesq]

5) I'm at a pretty shitty firm .

I always assumed this was the case. This (implying there is not enough work to go around), or you're still a bachelor with nothing to do with what little spare time you have.

k

[Anonymous User]

the people who don't let depression take hold and keep grinding are almost always fine

What grinding is there to do after applying everywhere?

I mean I'm happy to read all this but it seems optimistic.

(Below median at CCN, fwiw.)

[bjsesq]

the people who don't let depression take hold and keep grinding are almost always fine

What grinding is there to do after applying everywhere?

I mean I'm happy to read all this but it seems optimistic.

(Below median at CCN, fwiw.)

I did 900 different apps (monster, targeteds, mass mails, in person apps) before I landed my job. It's not about being overly optimistic, it's about being aggressive as hell because you recognize the precariousness of your situation.

[PepperJack]

It is overly optimistic. About 1/2 of who want it get it. Most of the people that don't aren't weird. This is by comparing them to the general public. They're generally much more normal than the general public so by law school standards would probably be considered really normal. I don't know their grades. Don't read into the DF and DELG shtick, because you'll feel worse about your situation if you're still looking. Keep hustling.

[Desert Fox]

It is overly optimistic. About 1/2 of who want it get it. Most of the people that don't aren't weird. This is by comparing them to the general public. They're generally much more normal than the general public so by law school standards would probably be considered really normal. I don't know their grades. Don't read into the DF and DELG shtick, because you'll feel worse about your situation if you're still looking. Keep hustling.

Well over half actually get it.

67% of my class makes over 100k this year (at least 75% who work in a private firms make 160k)

7% are in clerkships

8% in PI/Gov

[5ky]

I really enjoy the DF biglaw threads

[84651846190]

Serious question, do you actually think you're funny sometimes? I see posts like this and wonder. I know you are running the whole "I'm big law and you're not" shtick a lot on this site and I see it in all your threads. I like the consistency and appreciate it but think it might be better to run a shtick that like half the site is also not a part of (and doesn't post about as if they are the only big law associate on this site).

tl;dr i think you have some trolling/shtick skills, but you'd be better off trying a different approach

trying to wrap my mind around how insecure you would have to be to think this is DF's schtick

[84651846190]

Getting biglaw is hard. The people who don't think so are the associates being treated like shit at work. DF may or may not be proud about biglaw, but he likes the attention.

Wait, can someone elaborate on this? I'm wondering about my own psychology as a biglaw associate and would love any input law students or 0Ls might have on this important topic.

[Mal Reynolds]

It is amazing to me how many people interpret DF as bragging about being in biglaw.

[ratfukr]

Most of the people that don't aren't weird. This is by comparing them to the general public. They're generally much more normal than the general public so by law school standards would probably be considered really normal.

damn this is an oxymoron within a tautology that's fuckin cray

[banjo]

I know T14 students who struggled / struck out for entirely preventable reasons--bidding on small markets, doing too few screeners, or repeating the same bad answer to a common interview question. Even being weird is a preventable mistake. You just need to train students to fake it for 20-30 minute bursts.