New associate banter Forum

[Anonymous User]

Are people noticing more late nights in corporate or in litigation? I have a choice of a couple practice groups and this is one thing I'm curious about.

[Anonymous User]

Not at a firm, but since this is the closest thread, just had to say that I'm being oriented today and am beginning to grasp exactly how much bureaucracy I'll be wading through from now on. Holy crap.

(Also, they explained doing purchase orders, including for things like paying expert witnesses, and I was kind of like, fuck, are they going to let me do that??)

[thesealocust]

Are people noticing more late nights in corporate or in litigation? I have a choice of a couple practice groups and this is one thing I'm curious about.

Both can be busy, but corp is (a) more all-or-nothing and (b) less predictable. I don't think I've ever heard people take a view as to which strictly takes more hours over the course of a year.

[JCougar]

I billed 46.7 hours my first week.

But my yield of billable hours/hours worked is much higher than I thought. With litigation, there always seems like there's more stuff to do. Minus lunch, I probably only was at work for 50 hours. We had a trial today that I couldn't go to because I'm still waiting for my bar score/getting licensed, but I worked some hours this weekend to help prepare. The other guy hired with me got to go and argue some motions today, because he took the bar in a state that already released their scores. He started work a month ago, though.

[studebaker07]

For all the transactional peeps, how much reliance on form agreements is too much? To get specific, I am talking about asset purchase agreements and transfer forms. The definition of the assets to be sold or transferred is necessarily one of the more important aspects of such an agreement, so you would expect that this section would be extremely variable. I think form agreements are great places to start, but others in my firm seem to think the forms are almost foolproof in every circumstance and that kind of annoys me.

[thesealocust]

The thing about precedents and forms is that they often incorporate a hell of a lot of thinking and analysis that isn't obvious when you're a rookie.

One of my favorite examples is a page reference to the risk factors on the front of a pricing supplement. Yeah, it's not a horrible idea... but it also just so happens to be an explicit requirement of reg S-K. It's the kind of thing you could see a million times in precedent documents and update for your deal without realizing was directly responsive to a Real Honest to God Law.

[studebaker07]

The thing about precedents and forms is that they often incorporate a hell of a lot of thinking and analysis that isn't obvious when you're a rookie.

One of my favorite examples is a page reference to the risk factors on the front of a pricing supplement. Yeah, it's not a horrible idea... but it also just so happens to be an explicit requirement of reg S-K. It's the kind of thing you could see a million times in precedent documents and update for your deal without realizing was directly responsive to a Real Honest to God Law.

That makes total sense and I agree with the statement about precedents and the amount of previous experiences captured in a form. But what about vague and ambiguous words like "all related patent applications" when patent applications isn't clearly defined? That's the kind of ambiguity that bugs me.

[lukertin]

That makes total sense and I agree with the statement about precedents and the amount of previous experiences captured in a form. But what about vague and ambiguous words like "all related patent applications" when patent applications isn't clearly defined? That's the kind of ambiguity that bugs me.

lol if you need "patent applications" to be defined...

[studebaker07]

It's not so absurd if there are potentially multiple inventions and the patents being assigned are not clearly defined from the outset, IMO.

[wiseowl]

That makes total sense and I agree with the statement about precedents and the amount of previous experiences captured in a form. But what about vague and ambiguous words like "all related patent applications" when patent applications isn't clearly defined? That's the kind of ambiguity that bugs me.

lol if you need "patent applications" to be defined...

lol if you can't see how this could be ambiguous in about ten different ways

[lukertin]

It's not so absurd if there are potentially multiple inventions and the patents being assigned are not clearly defined from the outset, IMO.

That's an issue over the meaning of 'related'.

[Gorki]

It's not so absurd if there are potentially multiple inventions and the patents being assigned are not clearly defined from the outset, IMO.

That's an issue over the meaning of 'related'.

Related Patent Applications: blahblahblahblah

/discussion ?

[Anonymous User]

I spent all weekend working like a madman, and now I'm back to having nothing on my plate.

My kingdom for some regular workflow. This is just a drag.

[NewSouthernAssociate]

Checking in here. Started about a month ago. At least there wasn't any traffic driving home at 1:30am last week!

[reasonable_man]

Anyone in here make the move to the attorney forum?

[thesealocust]

Already posting there

I flagrantly ignored their verification rules and managed to make it in.

[ragelion]

Anyone in here make the move to the attorney forum?

No sudden movements, guys.

[Anastasia Dee Dualla]

Anyone in here make the move to the attorney forum?

Made the move.

[5ky]

Already posting there

I flagrantly ignored their verification rules and managed to make it in.

sent mine in right around when you did i think (9:45ish), still nothing.

dat BLACKLIST

[reasonable_man]

Anyone in here make the move to the attorney forum?

No sudden movements, guys.

You're awesome.

[jkay]

I must be blind...please advise.

[thesealocust]

I must be blind...please advise.

Sticky at the top of the employment forum about a new hidden secret law talkin' guys club house

[Stanford4Me]

I was going to but I was too lazy to take a picture of my diploma from two different angles. Is it possible to send this thread over to that sub-forum?

[Anastasia Dee Dualla]

I was going to but I was too lazy to take a picture of my diploma from two different angles. Is it possible to send this thread over to that sub-forum?

They won't do that because its unfair to those involved in this thread who maybe don't want to make the switch. Use your phone broseph. Also, how's life?

[snowpeach06]

Somewhere in there it said you could just post a link to your firm bio. I did that, so I'll let you guys know if it's successful. Otherwise, I agree, it's much too much work to get access to a forum.

Anyway, I am excited, cuse tomorrow I get to interview interns. I feel so powerful.