Typical Litigator's Day v. Corp Attorney's Day Forum

[Anonymous User]

Thoughts?

[CanadianWolf]

Kicking butt versus kissing butt ?

[acr0504]

Litigator- sits in at 7 hour deposition. says "objection" four times. 4 hours writing appellate brief.
Corp Attorney- reads fine print contracts for 12 hours.

[Anonymous User]

Litigator- sits in at 7 hour deposition. says "objection" four times. 4 hours writing appellate brief.
Corp Attorney- reads fine print contracts for 12 hours.

Credited?

[Anonymous User]

lit = fun

corp = most boring job imaginable.

[Anonymous User]

lit = fun

corp = most boring job imaginable.

Explain.

[sundance95]

Why anon?

[profs<3mycomments]

Litigator- sits in at 7 hour deposition. says "objection" four times. 4 hours writing "relevant," "not relevant," "not relevant," "not relevant," "relevant," "not relevant."
Corp Attorney- reads fine print contracts for 12 hours.

ftfy

[bigben]

Varies too much to make any generalizations about the day-to-day.

[Anonymous Loser]

Above post about overgeneralization is tcr.

For example:

Litigator: Stares at computer screen for 9 hours looking on Westlaw for a case that doesn't exist.

Corp. Attorney: Puts on largely ineffective Powerpoint presentation at seminar regarding changes to area of law relevant to interests of clients and potential clients; sits in on 4 1/2 hour board meeting, speaking only once to point out that business judgement rule likely protects whatever decision is under consideration.

[Anonymous User]

Above post about overgeneralization is tcr.

For example:

Litigator: Stares at computer screen for 9 hours looking on Westlaw for a case that doesn't exist.

Corp. Attorney: Puts on largely ineffective Powerpoint presentation at seminar regarding changes to area of law relevant to interests of clients and potential clients; sits in on 4 1/2 hour board meeting, speaking only once to point out that business judgement rule likely protects whatever decision is under consideration.

lol

[bigben]

lit = fun

corp = most boring job imaginable.

lit - 1L writing class in your office for the rest of your life

corp - baller doin' deals, cigars over golf, closing parties

[Anonymous User]

Varies too much to make any generalizations about the day-to-day.

oh, well.

[Anonymous User]

lit = fun

corp = most boring job imaginable.

lit - 1L writing class for the rest of your life in your office

corp - baller doin' deals, cigars over golf, closing parties

But, what if I know SHIT about corps?

[sundance95]

Above post about overgeneralization is tcr.

For example:

Litigator: Stares at computer screen for 9 hours looking on Westlaw for a case that doesn't exist.

Corp. Attorney: Puts on largely ineffective Powerpoint presentation at seminar regarding changes to area of law relevant to interests of clients and potential clients; sits in on 4 1/2 hour board meeting, speaking only once to point out that business judgement rule likely protects whatever decision is under consideration.

Yeah, but only the litigator got to bill *all* that time.

[Anonymous User]

Above post about overgeneralization is tcr.

For example:

Litigator: Stares at computer screen for 9 hours looking on Westlaw for a case that doesn't exist.

Corp. Attorney: Puts on largely ineffective Powerpoint presentation at seminar regarding changes to area of law relevant to interests of clients and potential clients; sits in on 4 1/2 hour board meeting, speaking only once to point out that business judgement rule likely protects whatever decision is under consideration.

Yeah, but only the litigator got to bill *all* that time.

verdad?

[bigben]

lit = fun

corp = most boring job imaginable.

lit - 1L writing class for the rest of your life in your office

corp - baller doin' deals, cigars over golf, closing parties

But, what if I know SHIT about corps?

A law grad that doesn't know shit about practicing law? NO WAY

[Anonymous User]

lit = fun

corp = most boring job imaginable.

lit - 1L writing class for the rest of your life in your office

corp - baller doin' deals, cigars over golf, closing parties

But, what if I know SHIT about corps?

A law grad that doesn't know shit about practicing law? NO WAY

I mean about the industry or something.

[bigben]

I mean about the industry or something.

Oh yeah, the corps industry. Good point.

[sundance95]

Above post about overgeneralization is tcr.

For example:

Litigator: Stares at computer screen for 9 hours looking on Westlaw for a case that doesn't exist.

Corp. Attorney: Puts on largely ineffective Powerpoint presentation at seminar regarding changes to area of law relevant to interests of clients and potential clients; sits in on 4 1/2 hour board meeting, speaking only once to point out that business judgement rule likely protects whatever decision is under consideration.

Yeah, but only the litigator got to bill *all* that time.

verdad?

"Review and analyze Costco Wholesale Corp. v. Super. Ct., 47 Cal. 4th 725, 219 P. 3d 736, 742 (Cal., 2009) re issues re procedure of challenges to claims of attorney-client privilege. Draft memorandum re same. Review and analyze Zurich Am. Ins. Co. v. Super. Ct., 155 Cal.App.4th 1485, 1498 (2007) re issues re same. Draft memorandum re same."

Rinse & repeat. Throw in some conferences. HTH.

[BunkMoreland]

Corp: Drafting documents, negotiating terms on buyouts, investments, fund formation docs, M+A stuff, etc, closing parties, advising clients on implications of their actions, etc. Sounds like it would be a ton of fun actually.

[NYAssociate]

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[ToTransferOrNot]

This is why bankruptcy > all. Send off the majority of the schleck work to the corporate or lit people. Focus time writing motion for reimbursement of fees. Win.

[Anonymous User]

This is why bankruptcy > all. Send off the majority of the schleck work to the corporate or lit people. Focus time writing motion for reimbursement of fees. Win.

Bankruptcy seems cool since it combines corp and lit, but, IDK, dood. I feel like I would be very depressed working bankruptcy cases. So many lives ruined, you know?

[ToTransferOrNot]

This is why bankruptcy > all. Send off the majority of the schleck work to the corporate or lit people. Focus time writing motion for reimbursement of fees. Win.

Bankruptcy seems cool since it combines corp and lit, but, IDK, dood. I feel like I would be very depressed working bankruptcy cases. So many lives ruined, you know?

BigCo Chapter 11 frequently results in saving jobs and so on that otherwise would have been vaporized. Yeah, you sometimes kill pension plans (see: American Airlines,) but it's still better than the pension having no money for payouts after the company explodes.