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Best primary to work biglaw?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:38 pm
by Anonymous User
Factor in QoL, living costs, associate satisfaction? Exclude tertiaries like Miami/Boston; consider simply SF/SV, LA, Chi, DC, NYC.

Is it chi?

Re: Best primary to work biglaw?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:40 pm
by Grizz
ITT: personal preference

Re: Best primary to work biglaw?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:42 pm
by Anonymous User
Grizz wrote:ITT: personal preference

Interesting because the metrics I listed are ... all objectively measured.

Re: Best primary to work biglaw?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:46 pm
by vanwinkle
Anonymous User wrote:
Grizz wrote:ITT: personal preference
Interesting because the metrics I listed are ... all objectively measured.
Dude, wtf?

Re: Best primary to work biglaw?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:52 pm
by Anonymous User
vanwinkle wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:
Grizz wrote:ITT: personal preference
Interesting because the metrics I listed are ... all objectively measured.
Dude, wtf?
Cost of living/QoL -- lump them. Objective.

Associate satisfaction -- take midlevel associate satisfaction surveys from AmLaw and compare the regions.

This is not mensa-level activity.

Re: Best primary to work biglaw?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:54 pm
by Grizz
Anonymous User wrote:
vanwinkle wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:
Grizz wrote:ITT: personal preference
Interesting because the metrics I listed are ... all objectively measured.
Dude, wtf?
Cost of living/QoL -- lump them. Objective.

Associate satisfaction -- take midlevel associate satisfaction surveys from AmLaw and compare the regions.

This is not mensa-level activity.
Then do it yourself.

Re: Best primary to work biglaw?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:58 pm
by Transferthrowaway
I put all of this in an excel spreadsheet and the output was #####. HTMFH

Need an Excel MFE/masterman to please look over my formulas.

Edit: This wasn't meant to be anonymous. MODS!

edit: fixt :D
edit: damn it mod, you fixed nothing.
that's really weird. it WAS fixt.

Re: Best primary to work biglaw?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:00 pm
by Grizz
Anonymous User wrote:I put all of this in an excel spreadsheet and the output was Chicago. HTMFH
If you answered your own question, why do you need us.

Re: Best primary to work biglaw?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:01 pm
by Grizz
You're not good at trolling.

Re: Best primary to work biglaw?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:01 pm
by kaiser
So go out and snag one of the many jobs available in Chicago. I hear there are an abundance of legal jobs there for the pickin'

Re: Best primary to work biglaw?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:01 pm
by Aqualibrium
Anonymous User wrote:I put all of this in an excel spreadsheet and the output was #####. HTMFH

Need an Excel MFE/masterman to please look over my formulas.

Edit: This wasn't meant to be anonymous. MODS!

lol

Re: Best primary to work biglaw?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:02 pm
by Transferthrowaway
Damn it, that was my post. I am not OP.

Re: Best primary to work biglaw?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:03 pm
by Grizz
Transferthrowaway wrote:Damn it, that was my post. I am not OP.
You silly goose

Re: Best primary to work biglaw?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:04 pm
by Transferthrowaway
Grizz wrote:
Transferthrowaway wrote:Damn it, that was my post. I am not OP.
You silly goose
I joke-failed after I excel-failed. :(

Re: Best primary to work biglaw?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:05 pm
by vanwinkle
Grizz wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:Cost of living/QoL -- lump them. Objective.

Associate satisfaction -- take midlevel associate satisfaction surveys from AmLaw and compare the regions.

This is not mensa-level activity.
Then do it yourself.
This. If it's so easy to figure out, what's wrong with you that you need others to do it?

Re: Best primary to work biglaw?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:15 pm
by Geist13
If you think quality of life is objective, then you don't know what objective means.

Re: Best primary to work biglaw?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:36 pm
by Renzo
Geist13 wrote:If you think quality of life is objective, then you don't know what objective means.
Or, for that matter, quality of life.

Re: Best primary to work biglaw?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:37 pm
by tlstlstls73
Renzo wrote:
Geist13 wrote:If you think quality of life is objective, then you don't know what objective means.
Or, for that matter, quality of life.
Or of.

Re: Best primary to work biglaw?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:51 pm
by TheFriendlyBarber
tlstlstls73 wrote:
Renzo wrote:
Geist13 wrote:If you think quality of life is objective, then you don't know what objective means.
Or, for that matter, quality of life.
Or of.
Or "."

Re: Best primary to work biglaw?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:52 pm
by duckmoney
In terms of how far "market" pay will take you, Texas > Chicago > DC > LA > market pay at pretty much every other city in the US > NYC.

In terms of everything else you might be alluding to, discussion would be pretty much pointless (as you've seen ITT thus far). Just pick a place you want to live.

Re: Best primary to work biglaw?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:57 pm
by Cavalier
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Re: Best primary to work biglaw?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 4:18 pm
by omninode
duckmoney wrote:In terms of how far "market" pay will take you, Texas > Chicago > DC > LA > market pay at pretty much every other city in the US > NYC.

In terms of everything else you might be alluding to, discussion would be pretty much pointless (as you've seen ITT thus far). Just pick a place you want to live.

I agree with this. The objective measures (cost of living and whatnot) will mean very little if you are not happy with your location.

Re: Best primary to work biglaw?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 4:24 pm
by Renzo
omninode wrote:
duckmoney wrote:In terms of how far "market" pay will take you, Texas > Chicago > DC > LA > market pay at pretty much every other city in the US > NYC.

In terms of everything else you might be alluding to, discussion would be pretty much pointless (as you've seen ITT thus far). Just pick a place you want to live.

I agree with this. The objective measures (cost of living and whatnot) will mean very little if you are not happy with your location.
In fact, if you believe in free markets even a little bit, then there's a good case that high cost of living is irrelevant. It's just the market price for living someplace better. If San Francisco is twice as expensive as Kearny, NE, then the average resident must think it's twice as good, because otherwise people would move and prices would come down until people felt like they were getting their money's worth.

Re: Best primary to work biglaw?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 4:33 pm
by foxtrottortxof
Renzo wrote:
omninode wrote:
duckmoney wrote:In terms of how far "market" pay will take you, Texas > Chicago > DC > LA > market pay at pretty much every other city in the US > NYC.

In terms of everything else you might be alluding to, discussion would be pretty much pointless (as you've seen ITT thus far). Just pick a place you want to live.

I agree with this. The objective measures (cost of living and whatnot) will mean very little if you are not happy with your location.
In fact, if you believe in free markets even a little bit, then there's a good case that high cost of living is irrelevant. It's just the market price for living someplace better. If San Francisco is twice as expensive as Kearny, NE, then the average resident must think it's twice as good, because otherwise people would move and prices would come down until people felt like they were getting their money's worth.
lulz. Joking, right?

Re: Best primary to work biglaw?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 4:47 pm
by mrloblaw
I hear market $ goes pretty far in Chad nowadays.