New associate banter Forum

[quakeroats]

An average dood in Thailand isn't payin 2500 dollars for a shitty apartment. Plus hookers are cheap. You might make 16 times what he does, but don't assume your life is better.

Per capita GNI in Thailand is $5200. You make more than 30 times that.

And if you work NYC biglaw you live in similar third world conditions.

Think about the position one must occupy in the world for this to be funny.

[quakeroats]

Remembering that our failure would count as success for almost anyone else does wonders for one's mental health.

Actually, that sounds like a pretty good recipe for guilt if, in fact, you just don't like working biglaw. Just because it's objectively a pretty good deal doesn't mean everyone's going to enjoy it, and spending that much time on something you don't like is miserable, even if there are people who have it a lot worse in the world.

You could feel guilty for your privileged position, but that's not going to help anyone, you included. A better way forward is to be humbled by the amazing opportunity that's before you and charitable with the surplus.

[skers]

Yeah, stop whining. There are kids starving for billables in Africa.

[quakeroats]

Yeah, stop whining. There's kids starving for billables in Africa.

It's all a matter of perspective really:

"If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won't consider possibilities that aren't annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience [a miserable situation] as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down. Not that that mystical stuff is necessarily true. The only thing that's capital-T True is that you get to decide how you're gonna try to see it."

http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/da ... -own-words

[dixiecupdrinking]

I actually think "try to keep your problems in perspective" is a really good piece of advice, though it's being offered in a particularly off-putting way here.

[thesealocust]

There's a big difference between "you are empowered to choose your response to circumstances and your perspective, which can help you through challenging circumstances" and "OTHER PEOPLE HAVE IT WORSE SO FALL TO YOUR KNEES AND LAY SACRIFICE BEFORE THE ALTER OF ~BIGLAW~ IN THANKS THAT IT TOLERATES YOUR PRESENCE IN ITS SHELTERING LIGHT"

[wiseowl]

This thread is Exhibit A why the new law grads forum holds very little interest for me.

[redsox550]

Yeah, stop whining. There are kids starving for billables in Africa.

lol, +1

[Old Gregg]

This thread is Exhibit A why the new law grads forum holds very little interest for me.

And your solution is to post in the forum with law students...

[Stanford4Me]

Am I the only one who finds it exceedingly difficult to coherently restate facts in paragraph form?

[seespotrun]

Am I the only one who finds it exceedingly difficult to coherently restate facts in paragraph form?

No, definitely not. Oddly enough, that is one thing I've struggled with over the past year. I've found that sticking to the chronology (as opposed to categorical facts) greatly improves my statements of facts.

[Anastasia Dee Dualla]

Am I the only one who finds it exceedingly difficult to coherently restate facts in paragraph form?

No, definitely not. Oddly enough, that is one thing I've struggled with over the past year. I've found that sticking to the chronology (as opposed to categorical facts) greatly improves my statements of facts.

I find the exact opposite. When in chronological order, I tend to "State all the facts" instead of limiting my statement to relevant ones.

[seespotrun]

Am I the only one who finds it exceedingly difficult to coherently restate facts in paragraph form?

No, definitely not. Oddly enough, that is one thing I've struggled with over the past year. I've found that sticking to the chronology (as opposed to categorical facts) greatly improves my statements of facts.

I find the exact opposite. When in chronological order, I tend to "State all the facts" instead of limiting my statement to relevant ones.

Can't you just state the relevant facts in chronological order?

[Anastasia Dee Dualla]

Am I the only one who finds it exceedingly difficult to coherently restate facts in paragraph form?

No, definitely not. Oddly enough, that is one thing I've struggled with over the past year. I've found that sticking to the chronology (as opposed to categorical facts) greatly improves my statements of facts.

I find the exact opposite. When in chronological order, I tend to "State all the facts" instead of limiting my statement to relevant ones.

Can't you just state the relevant facts in chronological order?

Obviously, I could. My point was, I have more trouble excluding irrelevant facts when writing them chronologically as opposed to categorically.

[seespotrun]

Obviously, I could. My point was, I have more trouble excluding irrelevant facts when writing them chronologically as opposed to categorically.

Yeah, I immediately regretted my argumentative douchebag question.

[Anastasia Dee Dualla]

Obviously, I could. My point was, I have more trouble excluding irrelevant facts when writing them chronologically as opposed to categorically.

Yeah, I immediately regretted my argumentative douchebag question.

I just assumed I hadn't been clear. No worries.

[desertlaw]

2 days into Biglaw. So much struggles just to read a few pages of English.

[rad lulz]

Am I the only one who finds it exceedingly difficult to coherently restate facts in paragraph form?

No, definitely not. Oddly enough, that is one thing I've struggled with over the past year. I've found that sticking to the chronology (as opposed to categorical facts) greatly improves my statements of facts.

I find the exact opposite. When in chronological order, I tend to "State all the facts" instead of limiting my statement to relevant ones.

Can't you just state the relevant facts in chronological order?

Protip: write the analysis, then the facts

[Anonymous User]

Current project is a bit mundane. It's like the patent prosecution version of doc review. I've dumped a month of billables on it, and my supervising attorney said today that the timeline looks like this may take me into Thanksgiving.

[DwightSchruteFarms]

Current project is a bit mundane. It's like the patent prosecution version of doc review. I've dumped a month of billables on it, and my supervising attorney said today that the timeline looks like this may take me into Thanksgiving.

Enjoy it. I started out iwth a brutal first assignment (fat filing that I was given 1 week to do) and then that was followed by another huge filing which took me an additional 2 weeks. Now I'm doing doc review and I love it. Easy billables. Chill days at work.

[seespotrun]

Protip: write the analysis, then the facts

I've always done that. But there are times when you need to include facts that you do not refer to in your analysis for purposes of well-poisoning.

[20160810]

There's a big difference between "you are empowered to choose your response to circumstances and your perspective, which can help you through challenging circumstances" and "OTHER PEOPLE HAVE IT WORSE SO FALL TO YOUR KNEES AND LAY SACRIFICE BEFORE THE ALTER OF ~BIGLAW~ IN THANKS THAT IT TOLERATES YOUR PRESENCE IN ITS SHELTERING LIGHT"

Am I mistaken in thinking Quakeroats is a boomerish nontrad?

He definitely fits the profile. Nontrads seem to love justifying the time they wasted before law school by blowing themselves for having MOAR PERSPECTIVE. Then again, quoting DFW screams K-JD, so I could go either way on this one.

[Stanford4Me]

That moment when you do a few hours research on a statute and later find out there's a clear exemption that you somehow overlook.

I swear I'm not incompetent.

[run26.2]

This thread is Exhibit A why the new law grads forum holds very little interest for me.

Yeah. But the whole site is like this. Humblebrag everywhere. Disputes that continue on for pages over petty details. Inane questions, whose answers are matters of personal preference or common sense.

At the same time, occasionally there are interesting points about the current state of the law or insights into different firms or practice areas. If anything, there is a lot of value in the forum as a sounding board, before talking to other attorneys about the industry.

So for me, I take the good with the bad.

[thesealocust]

Yeah. But the whole site is like this. Humblebrag everywhere. Disputes that continue on for pages over petty details. Inane questions, whose answers are matters of personal preference or common sense.

I mean, if it's true of TLS, it's still just a microcosm for our profession and all the wonderful specimens of humanity[FN1] it attracts

[FN1] not excluding myself from this description