ITT: Summer Associates Post About Their Anxiety (2012) Forum

[Anonymous User]

I was told in one of my reviews that they were concerned with my initial work product, but that I am improving.

How screwed am I for getting an offer?

[IAFG]

I was told in one of my reviews that they were concerned with my initial work product, but that I am improving.

How screwed am I for getting an offer?

How were your other reviews? Is it possible the reviewer was just a little aspies?

[Anonymous User]

I was told in one of my reviews that they were concerned with my initial work product, but that I am improving.

How screwed am I for getting an offer?

How were your other reviews? Is it possible the reviewer was just a little aspies?

Didn't get into specifics, but I suppose some good, some bad. Has me really worried, in what is supposed to be a law student's "best summer" he or she will ever experience.

[los blancos]

Anyone else absolutely bored with biglaw practice as a summer? Some people do seem to genuinely like it, but reading dense 60+ page contracts for tiny errors and drafting sections of the same super boring documents by chopping up old sections of boring documents is making me dread this life -- especially when you're doing it for 14 hours a day. I certainly expected this is in biglaw, but it's worse when you're actually doing it.

I enjoy the adversarial process of litigation very much. And the tedious work supporting the process is palatable.

Same. I really like the work so far. I can't imagine better work as an associate than "Here are the facts. I'm trying to win this case or at least figure out if I need to push the client to settle. Find out if the plaintiff's theory makes any sense and if we have any counterclaims."


This firm is awesome.

[swc65]

Anyone else absolutely bored with biglaw practice as a summer? Some people do seem to genuinely like it, but reading dense 60+ page contracts for tiny errors and drafting sections of the same super boring documents by chopping up old sections of boring documents is making me dread this life -- especially when you're doing it for 14 hours a day. I certainly expected this is in biglaw, but it's worse when you're actually doing it.

It's a necessary process of learning. You don't know how to do anything more advanced. Once you "graduate" from it, you'll be drafting key provisions of a merger agreement, if not the whole damn thing (with input from specialists). Once you graduate from that, you'll be negotiating key provisions of the merger agreement and editing someone else's first draft of it. Once you graduate from that, you'll be negotiating the most key provisions of a deal and making sure everyone below you puts that in place.

It's really hard to see the forest for the trees when you're changing "corporation" to "limited liability company" in a resolution. The thing that should keep you motivated, and that keeps me motivated, is looking at what people more senior to me do and seeing where what you do falls in the bigger picture.

This is good advice. It makes the drudgery worth it!!

[Anonymous User]

Has anyone ever heard of an SA being let go? Wonder what an SA could do to piss someone off so much to become road kill? I am guessing 60/40 it was an argument rather than work assignment.

Tucker Max

Seriously. . . what did he do to get canned? Personality, work product or . . . . ?

[smokyroom26]

Has anyone ever heard of an SA being let go? Wonder what an SA could do to piss someone off so much to become road kill? I am guessing 60/40 it was an argument rather than work assignment.

Tucker Max

Seriously. . . what did he do to get canned? Personality, work product or . . . . ?

http://www.tuckermax.com/stories/the-no ... n-debacle/

[Anonymous User]

Hypothetically, if someone were thinking about moving firms, when would they start massmailing? July? August? I don't really want to sit on my offer but I do want to put out feelers.

[Anonymous User]

For 2L SAs with grade-related no-offer anxiety, I asked about the role of grades in offers during my midsummer review and they said grades only matter for getting through the door as an SA, not for getting an offer. They said they ask for transcripts only to make sure we haven't failed out. NYC V100 for what it's worth.

Ditto here! Anxiety level over my less than stellar 2nd semester grades have vanished. Better yet, get to avoid the entie OCI hassle!

Wasn't OP talking about 2L SAs? Is it the case that your 1L SA is a guaranteed post-grad offer regardless of all of your grades after first semester of 1L year?

[Anonymous User]

Mid size firm law clerk here. Somehow, I downloaded a virus onto my computer today. No, I was not looking at porn. No, I did not download Skyrim. This was actually in the course of doing work.

Fucked?

[Old Gregg]

Mid size firm law clerk here. Somehow, I downloaded a virus onto my computer today. No, I was not looking at porn. No, I did not download Skyrim. This was actually in the course of doing work.

Fucked?

No. Call tech and tell them to clean it out.

[Anonymous User]

Anyone else absolutely bored with biglaw practice as a summer? Some people do seem to genuinely like it, but reading dense 60+ page contracts for tiny errors and drafting sections of the same super boring documents by chopping up old sections of boring documents is making me dread this life -- especially when you're doing it for 14 hours a day. I certainly expected this is in biglaw, but it's worse when you're actually doing it.

That's why I enjoy the lit work I am doing so much. I do actual, real legal shit and don't just scan documents. I've never done a second of doc review on the job.

[Ludo!]

Mid size firm law clerk here. Somehow, I downloaded a virus onto my computer today. No, I was not looking at porn. No, I did not download Skyrim. This was actually in the course of doing work.

Fucked?

No big deal. Happened to me just browsing. I blame ny firms's insistence on using Internet Explorer. Just call IT

[dixiecupdrinking]

Mid size firm law clerk here. Somehow, I downloaded a virus onto my computer today. No, I was not looking at porn. No, I did not download Skyrim. This was actually in the course of doing work.

Fucked?

No big deal. Happened to me just browsing. I blame ny firms's insistence on using Internet Explorer. Just call IT

Yeah, they must deal with this like four times a day with 60-year-old partners who click on every pop-up ad thinking, "Me? I won?!"

[rad lulz]

Mid size firm law clerk here. Somehow, I downloaded a virus onto my computer today. No, I was not looking at porn. No, I did not download Skyrim. This was actually in the course of doing work.

Fucked?

No big deal. Happened to me just browsing. I blame ny firms's insistence on using Internet Explorer. Just call IT

Yeah, they must deal with this like four times a day with 60-year-old partners who click on every pop-up ad thinking, "Me? I won?!"

FUCKING SHITBOOMERS

[fatduck]

Mid size firm law clerk here. Somehow, I downloaded a virus onto my computer today. No, I was not looking at porn. No, I did not download Skyrim. This was actually in the course of doing work.

Fucked?

No big deal. Happened to me just browsing. I blame ny firms's insistence on using Internet Explorer. Just call IT

Yeah, they must deal with this like four times a day with 60-year-old partners who click on every pop-up ad thinking, "Me? I won?!"

FUCKING SHITBOOMERS

for a generation that talks a lot of shit about "entitlement" they are very willing to click on any unsolicited email promising to make them rich with no effort

[r6_philly]

for a generation that talks a lot of shit about "entitlement" they are very willing to click on any unsolicited email promising to make them rich with no effort

They've earned it.

[fatduck]

for a generation that talks a lot of shit about "entitlement" they are very willing to click on any unsolicited email promising to make them rich with no effort

They've earned it.

[Morgan12Oak]

+1 to the above. I bitch all day to my other SAs about shitboomers. The TTT ones defend them, its lol-worthy.

[r6_philly]

for a generation that talks a lot of shit about "entitlement" they are very willing to click on any unsolicited email promising to make them rich with no effort

They've earned it.

I thought you said you were funny.

[fatduck]

for a generation that talks a lot of shit about "entitlement" they are very willing to click on any unsolicited email promising to make them rich with no effort

They've earned it.

I thought you said you were funny.

no, i don't think i've ever said that. maybe you were thinking of one of these people:

Are you always this good or are you on fire lately?

wow, you're just like a real cat. iloveyouiloveyouiloveyouiloveyouIMSCRATCHINGYOUREYESOUT

This was SO good.

I love your avatars.

I vote this one stays.

i lol'd

Fat duck has been on fire

It's like these posters who never previously acknowledged fatduck are suddenly on the bandwagon. Fuckin' free riders.

I HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED FAT DUCK FROM THE BEGINNING DAMMIT.

You really are a very good poster.

You, sir, truly bring the lulz.

duckie you are just full of win

I would like to honor you with my page 800 post.

fatduck is a good new poster.

It's a couple pages back, but I feel the need to correct this:

fatduck is a good the best new poster.

And it's not even close.

I LOVE YOUU FATDUCK

You are invaluable.

fatduck, you're my favorite gay man. <3 <3 <3

Lol at the boatloads of engineering majors who think they had it bad.

i mean i understand that you're just trying to sound hard on the internet, but the mean gpa in the college of engineering at my school is 3.04. somehow i don't think it's the same in humanities and social sciences.

I like you, fatduck.

he brought the hotness, for real

I'll always remember you, fatduck.

Fatduck is a loose cannon. But, BY GOD, he's OUR loose cannon.

April was boring without you Fatduck

Legendary.

I am thoroughly impressed at how efficiently fatduck just owned this thread.

180 for fatduck, and IBTL

[r6_philly]

You still don't get it. Sigh.

ETA: it wasn't a personal challenge. It was a hint.

[r6_philly]

no, i don't think i've ever said that. maybe you were thinking of one of these people:

Makes me feel sorry. Sorry dude.

[fatduck]

i do feel bad for derailing a useful thread

SIGH






carry on, fellows

[dixiecupdrinking]

I thought you said you were funny.

no, i don't think i've ever said that. maybe you were thinking of one of these people:

Are you always this good or are you on fire lately?

wow, you're just like a real cat. iloveyouiloveyouiloveyouiloveyouIMSCRATCHINGYOUREYESOUT

This was SO good.

I love your avatars.

I vote this one stays.

i lol'd

Fat duck has been on fire

It's like these posters who never previously acknowledged fatduck are suddenly on the bandwagon. Fuckin' free riders.

I HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED FAT DUCK FROM THE BEGINNING DAMMIT.

You really are a very good poster.

You, sir, truly bring the lulz.

duckie you are just full of win

I would like to honor you with my page 800 post.

fatduck is a good new poster.

It's a couple pages back, but I feel the need to correct this:

fatduck is a good the best new poster.

And it's not even close.

I LOVE YOUU FATDUCK

You are invaluable.

fatduck, you're my favorite gay man. <3 <3 <3

Lol at the boatloads of engineering majors who think they had it bad.

i mean i understand that you're just trying to sound hard on the internet, but the mean gpa in the college of engineering at my school is 3.04. somehow i don't think it's the same in humanities and social sciences.

I like you, fatduck.

he brought the hotness, for real

I'll always remember you, fatduck.

Fatduck is a loose cannon. But, BY GOD, he's OUR loose cannon.

April was boring without you Fatduck

Legendary.

I am thoroughly impressed at how efficiently fatduck just owned this thread.

180 for fatduck, and IBTL

lol. not that you've been keeping track.