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Anonymous User wrote:
Wake up at 7 AM or so, be in to work by 8.

Bill until lunch, then either take a lunch and Hate yourself for it or eat like a troll in your office.

Bill till 6:30 or so, get home around 7:15.

Then try to find time to workout, eat somewhat healthy, relax, etc and then try to get enough sleep.

I'm about to say fuck it and do that 9-5 and just take the heat on billables

Biglaw_Associate_V20 wrote:

Anonymous User wrote:No coif.

Seriously, no debt. I saved my money from my two years working and saved all my summer associate money and took the big scholarship. Parents helped with CoL when needed.

No coif from a T25 = no mobility until you have substantive experience (which may not be for another five years or more).

Sorry.

Anonymous User wrote:OP here - I think I sm beginning to figure out the issue. This job, and maybe legal practice in general does not mesh well with my personality. I think the lack of focus/boredom comes from sitting around drafting and researching things that I don't give a single fuck about. I also find myself craving human interaction of any sort as my days are constantly me sitting alone at my desk.

I have also begun to wake up at 3 am the last few nights thinking I sm going to be late to work/should be billing.

Still don't know how I will ever reach my billable goal.

Biglaw_Associate_V20 wrote:

Anonymous User wrote:

Biglaw_Associate_V20 wrote:
Personally, I don't give a shit about Coif if I know you do good work, but people will ding T25ers for not having Coif (and, in fact, our hiring partner, recruiting coordinator and firm-wide hiring guidelines require that we ding junior associate lateral candidates without top 10% credentials). You never know when you're going to get some prestige whore looking at your lateral application, so take that into consideration when slacking off during 2L and 3L. I'm certainly not saying that every practicing biglaw attorney will ding you for no Coif at a T25, but some definitely will.

just wondering, how true is this at T14 schools? like, low honors are good enough to get in the door most places from a T6, but if you want to jump ship do you need high honors as well

(current 3L who is in wondering how hard to gun this year)

No matter who you are, you'll always be shut out of something. Even people with top credentials get pigeon-holed as litigators or whatever after they've been working a number of years. Just do the best you can while you're in law school. It's not like you have anything else to do. As others have said, there is no one-size-fits-all advice here. I think most firms care a lot less about law school grades than my firm, so anything I tell you about my firm is probably 100% irrelevant to what goes on at most firms.

fats provolone wrote:found actual photographic evidence that not all lawyers hate their jobs

ur done here tls pessimists

fats provolone wrote:found actual photographic evidence that not all lawyers hate their jobs

ur done here tls pessimists

Anonymous User wrote:OP here - leaving when I do hardly means I am finished working. Further, I am not making the 160K p/m or anything close to that. As stated, I am in a SECONDARY market. What kills me is the fact that even when I have billable work, the most I can do is 5-6 hours because the shit is so boring.

Lacepiece23 wrote: Bro why don't you switch to Lit? Seems to me like Lit in secondary markets is better than New York. Real work right away because you have less associates in your class. Less doc review because clients won't pay for that shit. I don't know why anyone would want to do corporate in a secondary market. Just my .02.

Cogburn87 wrote:

Lacepiece23 wrote: Bro why don't you switch to Lit? Seems to me like Lit in secondary markets is better than New York. Real work right away because you have less associates in your class. Less doc review because clients won't pay for that shit. I don't know why anyone would want to do corporate in a secondary market. Just my .02.

Clients don't want juniors billing for doc review even in New York. The days of biglaw juniors spending 2-3 years doing mostly doc review are drawing to a close thanks to predictive coding and contract attorneys.

Anyway, doc review isn't even that bad, at least compared to the "real work" that junior litigators in biglaw otherwise get.

ETA: In any event, switching to litigation is definitely not advisable if OP's goal is to get out ASAP.

fats provolone wrote:you still have to babysit the doc reviewers anyway. and you end up having to do a ton of searching, except you actually have to find shit instead of just cruising through docs tagging. unclear which is better.

Anonymous User wrote:OP here - leaving when I do hardly means I am finished working. Further, I am not making the 160K p/m or anything close to that. As stated, I am in a SECONDARY market. What kills me is the fact that even when I have billable work, the most I can do is 5-6 hours because the shit is so boring.

los blancos wrote:

fats provolone wrote:you still have to babysit the doc reviewers anyway. and you end up having to do a ton of searching, except you actually have to find shit instead of just cruising through docs tagging. unclear which is better.

I would take the former over the latter any day. Doc review sucks precisely because it's mindless.

fats provolone wrote:

los blancos wrote:

fats provolone wrote:you still have to babysit the doc reviewers anyway. and you end up having to do a ton of searching, except you actually have to find shit instead of just cruising through docs tagging. unclear which is better.

I would take the former over the latter any day. Doc review sucks precisely because it's mindless.

discovery letters aren't mindless? they're actually worse than mindless. anti-mind