NYC to 200k Forum

[Anonymous User]

i hope so.

Hope it wasn't TTTrouTman crap. Need to be only spilling that caviar to push us through the $210k barriers

[Anonymous User]

I was at a conference recently - and was sitting at a table eating my lunch when some old partner walked by and spilled his fish right onto my lap. He just looked at me for a second and then kept walking.

People need to retire.

Is "spilled his fish" a euphemism? If so, I kind of love it.

i hope so.

He dropped a cod fillet covered in some kind of sauce into my lap. I was also wearing an hermes tie.

[Anonymous User]

i cant stop laughing out loud

[Anonymous User]

Unlike DPW associates, I'm taking summers to lunch somewhere other than McDonald's. When I come back, I expect 200K.

[Anonymous User]

Unlike DPW associates, I'm taking summers to lunch somewhere other than McDonald's. When I come back, I expect 200K.

DPW does partner lunch/meetings on Thursdays. But probably won’t commit/announce until Cravath does

[Anonymous User]

Unlike DPW associates, I'm taking summers to lunch somewhere other than McDonald's. When I come back, I expect 200K.

dpw only allows mcdonalds on special occasions

[yomisterd]

I was at a conference recently - and was sitting at a table eating my lunch when some old partner walked by and spilled his fish right onto my lap. He just looked at me for a second and then kept walking.

People need to retire.

Is "spilled his fish" a euphemism? If so, I kind of love it.

i hope so.

He dropped a cod fillet covered in some kind of sauce into my lap. I was also wearing an hermes tie.

now it’s a Pisces tie

[cfcm]

Unlike DPW associates, I'm taking summers to lunch somewhere other than McDonald's. When I come back, I expect 200K.

DPW does partner lunch/meetings on Thursdays. But probably won’t commit/announce until Cravath does

DPW to 200K.



For all associates/counsel

[sparkytrainer]

Unlike DPW associates, I'm taking summers to lunch somewhere other than McDonald's. When I come back, I expect 200K.

DPW does partner lunch/meetings on Thursdays. But probably won’t commit/announce until Cravath does

DPW to 200K.



For all associates/counsel

Nice joke

[Anonymous User]

Unlike DPW associates, I'm taking summers to lunch somewhere other than McDonald's. When I come back, I expect 200K.

DPW does partner lunch/meetings on Thursdays. But probably won’t commit/announce until Cravath does

DPW to 200K.



For all associates/counsel

Nice joke

but only if they log 365 consecutive 411 checkins

[sparkytrainer]

Unlike DPW associates, I'm taking summers to lunch somewhere other than McDonald's. When I come back, I expect 200K.

DPW does partner lunch/meetings on Thursdays. But probably won’t commit/announce until Cravath does

DPW to 200K.



For all associates/counsel

Nice joke

but only if they log 365 consecutive 411 checkins

Honestly DPW sounds as TTT as GeorgeTTTown. Both are bottom feeders trying to live off the prestige of places better than them.

[Anonymous User]

^Outed S&C associate jealous of DPW's Columbia/Yale pedigree.

[Anonymous User]

^Outed S&C associate jealous of DPW's Columbia/Yale pedigree.

they have two in each interior office!!

[Anonymous User]

Same DPW anon "defending" the 411 system:

Not to sound overly pretentious (I probably do), but the "working from home" thing when you want isn't an option at a V5 NYC corporate shop. Everyone is in the office, unless you have a real reason not to be. Not saying that's how it should be, it's just how it is. Very different for firms who don't staff all their matters in the same office (K&E, Latham, non-traditional NYC corporate shops).

Cravath, S&C, WLRK, STB - prove me wrong.

Skadden NY corporate midlevel here. A lot of folks on my floor work from home on Fridays. People definitely work from home if they're slow or have a doctor's appointment or something, at least in my group. None of the partners I work for care -- they do the same thing themselves.

I've had my own external office ever since I started, and while a handful of juniors share when they first start, I think that's still the norm.

Someone had asked about tech stipends -- every 3 years we get $1500 for a laptop and $375 for a printer/scanner. Firm also covers your iPhone/Android and your data plan.

As far as comp, I can't imagine Skadden will do anything but wait it out. Partners probably learned their lesson after no one followed the Skadden bonus scale in 2008.

[sparkytrainer]

^Outed S&C associate jealous of DPW's Columbia/Yale pedigree.

Couldn't find a single Yale grad on DPW website. Must be hard in the trenches getting those Cardozo grads

[JusticeJackson]

What the fuck is the matter with above the law? Why do they insist on forcing a “the next recession is imminent” theme into every fucking story? It’s been a consistent mantra over there for the last decade. I’m sure a recession will come again, but they’ve been wrong for years now, yet they keep at it. Are they justifying their shitty decision to quit a high paying job to write repetitive clickbait? Are they just low on content? God that website sucks.

[Anonymous User]

Same DPW anon "defending" the 411 system:

Not to sound overly pretentious (I probably do), but the "working from home" thing when you want isn't an option at a V5 NYC corporate shop. Everyone is in the office, unless you have a real reason not to be. Not saying that's how it should be, it's just how it is. Very different for firms who don't staff all their matters in the same office (K&E, Latham, non-traditional NYC corporate shops).

Cravath, S&C, WLRK, STB - prove me wrong.

Skadden NY corporate midlevel here. A lot of folks on my floor work from home on Fridays. People definitely work from home if they're slow or have a doctor's appointment or something, at least in my group. None of the partners I work for care -- they do the same thing themselves.

I've had my own external office ever since I started, and while a handful of juniors share when they first start, I think that's still the norm.

Someone had asked about tech stipends -- every 3 years we get $1500 for a laptop and $375 for a printer/scanner. Firm also covers your iPhone/Android and your data plan.

As far as comp, I can't imagine Skadden will do anything but wait it out. Partners probably learned their lesson after no one followed the Skadden bonus scale in 2008.

Notice how previous anon did not mention Skadden in the list of firms (even though V5). Maybe because Skadden NYC corporate is not equivalent to WLRK/Cravath/DPW/S&C/STB, and Skadden only gets voted in Vault due to name recognition?

Not sure, but I'll let you all duke it out.

[Anonymous User]

What the fuck is the matter with above the law? Why do they insist on forcing a “the next recession is imminent” theme into every fucking story? It’s been a consistent mantra over there for the last decade. I’m sure a recession will come again, but they’ve been wrong for years now, yet they keep at it. Are they justifying their shitty decision to quit a high paying job to write repetitive clickbait? Are they just low on content? God that website sucks.

David Lat is probably holding SPY put options and needs to force a dip before his meager savings disappear in the yawning voice of a margin call

Edit: also KE doesn't get laptop stipends at all. Sad. But at least our dinner budget is $40 and my work comp is 2017; could not imagine doing stupid bullshit late at night on some 2012 processor

[Anonymous User]

^Outed S&C associate jealous of DPW's Columbia/Yale pedigree.

Couldn't find a single Yale grad on DPW website. Must be hard in the trenches getting those Cardozo grads

I hear Debevoise has HUNDREDS of Columbia/Yale grads.

[Anonymous User]

Same DPW anon "defending" the 411 system:

Not to sound overly pretentious (I probably do), but the "working from home" thing when you want isn't an option at a V5 NYC corporate shop. Everyone is in the office, unless you have a real reason not to be. Not saying that's how it should be, it's just how it is. Very different for firms who don't staff all their matters in the same office (K&E, Latham, non-traditional NYC corporate shops).

Cravath, S&C, WLRK, STB - prove me wrong.

Skadden NY corporate midlevel here. A lot of folks on my floor work from home on Fridays. People definitely work from home if they're slow or have a doctor's appointment or something, at least in my group. None of the partners I work for care -- they do the same thing themselves.

I've had my own external office ever since I started, and while a handful of juniors share when they first start, I think that's still the norm.

Someone had asked about tech stipends -- every 3 years we get $1500 for a laptop and $375 for a printer/scanner. Firm also covers your iPhone/Android and your data plan.

As far as comp, I can't imagine Skadden will do anything but wait it out. Partners probably learned their lesson after no one followed the Skadden bonus scale in 2008.

Notice how previous anon did not mention Skadden in the list of firms (even though V5). Maybe because Skadden NYC corporate is not equivalent to WLRK/Cravath/DPW/S&C/STB, and Skadden only gets voted in Vault due to name recognition?

Not sure, but I'll let you all duke it out.

im enjoying our inferior corporate work from my couch thank you very much

[cfcm]

Kirkland partner calling for a lefty from the bullpen to deal with a particularly difficult signature page.

[Anonymous User]

David Lat is probably holding SPY put options and needs to force a dip before his meager savings disappear in the yawning voice of a margin call

He's too busy writing articles and tweets celebrating the destruction of the judiciary.

[Anonymous User]

Associate in SD here. Pretty much all of the big law satellite offices in town (Jones Day, MoFo, Pillsbury, Gunderson, etc.) and obviously Latham/Cooley (which are legitimately large offices and handle a lot of the major SD business) are at $180K. As for what the rest of the market past that looks like, I dunno but San Diego's generally followed the rest of CA in compensation despite being a rather insular market that's hard to get into for non-locals. If compensation ever changed relative to the rest of CA, that probably wouldn't be taken well since the COL here can get surprisingly high. As generally chill, relaxed, and OMGBEACHSOCLOSETOMYHOUSE the market is, probably would see folks decamp to SF/SV/LA/OC as a result, although as noted above, I doubt compensation here ever falls behind the rest of CA as a practical matter.

I don’t know man. I clerked for the 9th Circuit and a District Judge in SD. Still couldn’t even get an interview at the few biglaw firms down there. Had tons of OC, LA, and SF offers even though I had no contacts or interest to live in those places. I’d personally take a 10-20k pay cut to live in SD. But I’m no Yale/Columbia grad (my law school is second tier and ranked just a handful of slots above USD) so maybe that was my problem.

SD to 120

[Anonymous User]

Same DPW anon "defending" the 411 system:

Not to sound overly pretentious (I probably do), but the "working from home" thing when you want isn't an option at a V5 NYC corporate shop. Everyone is in the office, unless you have a real reason not to be. Not saying that's how it should be, it's just how it is. Very different for firms who don't staff all their matters in the same office (K&E, Latham, non-traditional NYC corporate shops).

Cravath, S&C, WLRK, STB - prove me wrong.

Skadden NY corporate midlevel here. A lot of folks on my floor work from home on Fridays. People definitely work from home if they're slow or have a doctor's appointment or something, at least in my group. None of the partners I work for care -- they do the same thing themselves.

I've had my own external office ever since I started, and while a handful of juniors share when they first start, I think that's still the norm.

Someone had asked about tech stipends -- every 3 years we get $1500 for a laptop and $375 for a printer/scanner. Firm also covers your iPhone/Android and your data plan.

As far as comp, I can't imagine Skadden will do anything but wait it out. Partners probably learned their lesson after no one followed the Skadden bonus scale in 2008.

Notice how previous anon did not mention Skadden in the list of firms (even though V5). Maybe because Skadden NYC corporate is not equivalent to WLRK/Cravath/DPW/S&C/STB, and Skadden only gets voted in Vault due to name recognition?

Not sure, but I'll let you all duke it out.

Skadden is V1 where it matters: TAX

[Anonymous User]

dont forget "mid atlantic"

http://www.vault.com/company-rankings/l ... sRankID=12