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Just hit 6 months as a shitlaw solo
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 5:09 pm
by Anonymous User
Taking questions and abuse while I mindlessly click through CLE.
Re: Just hit 6 months as a shitlaw solo
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 5:10 pm
by 09042014
You ever wanna fuck a young latina client??
Re: Just hit 6 months as a shitlaw solo
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 5:11 pm
by sinfiery
Projected earnings higher or lower next year? Job security?
How are you paying off/dealing with debt? PAYE?
Hours? Do you take your work home with you?
Can you work from home?
Re: Just hit 6 months as a shitlaw solo
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 5:12 pm
by 09042014
What is your billing rate?
Re: Just hit 6 months as a shitlaw solo
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 5:14 pm
by Anonymous User
Desert Fox wrote:You ever wanna fuck a young latina client??
Unfortunately Sotomayor is not yet a client.
Projected earnings higher or lower next year? Job security?
How are you paying off/dealing with debt? PAYE?
Hours? Do you take your work home with you?
Can you work from home?
Projected gross this year [lol at projecting next year] is 70-100. GROSS DOES NOT EQUAL NET.
Job security is infinite. I can literally never lose my job.
Debt, lol, just lol. On the plus side I can show a really low AGI so my loan payments are tiny.
Hours very widely. Now that I'm established slightly better than biglaw. First few months were much worse.
Can work from home but mostly work from my office in shittower. However, can also work from exotic beaches if the mood strikes.
What is your billing rate?
200/hr. But lots of contingency/hybrid
Re: Just hit 6 months as a shitlaw solo
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 5:25 pm
by Johann
how much legal experience did you have before going solo?
Re: Just hit 6 months as a shitlaw solo
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 5:27 pm
by Anonymous User
JohannDeMann wrote:how much legal experience did you have before going solo?
1 year in biglaw. Although relevant b side experience in one of my primary fields.
Re: Just hit 6 months as a shitlaw solo
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 5:44 pm
by nsideirish
Anonymous User wrote:JohannDeMann wrote:how much legal experience did you have before going solo?
1 year in biglaw. Although relevant b side experience in one of my primary fields.
Leave biglaw voluntarily or canned?
Re: Just hit 6 months as a shitlaw solo
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 6:12 pm
by Anonymous User
nsideirish wrote:Anonymous User wrote:JohannDeMann wrote:how much legal experience did you have before going solo?
1 year in biglaw. Although relevant b side experience in one of my primary fields.
Leave biglaw voluntarily or canned?
Use your imagination.
Fortunately getting canned is something I don't have to worry about anymore. Lol at being a jr associate quivering in fear of the knife.
Re: Just hit 6 months as a shitlaw solo
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 6:17 pm
by sinfiery
Anonymous User wrote:
Projected gross this year [lol at projecting next year] is 70-100. GROSS DOES NOT EQUAL NET.
Job security is infinite. I can literally never lose my job.
Debt, lol, just lol. On the plus side I can show a really low AGI so my loan payments are tiny.
Hours very widely. Now that I'm established slightly better than biglaw. First few months were much worse.
Can work from home but mostly work from my office in shittower. However, can also work from exotic beaches if the mood strikes.
What is your billing rate?
200/hr. But lots of contingency/hybrid
Realizing but not accounting for gross not being net, this is a pretty legit life if you can abuse PAYE and lobby with your cents saved to remove the tax bomb
Re: Just hit 6 months as a shitlaw solo
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 6:19 pm
by Anonymous User
sinfiery wrote:Anonymous User wrote:
Projected gross this year [lol at projecting next year] is 70-100. GROSS DOES NOT EQUAL NET.
Job security is infinite. I can literally never lose my job.
Debt, lol, just lol. On the plus side I can show a really low AGI so my loan payments are tiny.
Hours very widely. Now that I'm established slightly better than biglaw. First few months were much worse.
Can work from home but mostly work from my office in shittower. However, can also work from exotic beaches if the mood strikes.
What is your billing rate?
200/hr. But lots of contingency/hybrid
Realizing but not accounting for gross not being net, this is a pretty legit life if you can abuse PAYE and lobby with your cents saved to remove the tax bomb
I don't know if its abuse considering one of the stated purposes of the program is to allow the indebted the breathing room to open new businesses.
My plan for the tax bomb is to buy real estate then TAP DAT EQUITY. Real estate also helps lower AGI.
Re: Just hit 6 months as a shitlaw solo
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 8:38 pm
by Pokemon
Did you have other options after being out of biglaw?
Re: Just hit 6 months as a shitlaw solo
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 8:40 pm
by Anonymous User
Well I was offered some midlaw interviews. But turned them down once own Biz looked viable.
Re: Just hit 6 months as a shitlaw solo
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 8:53 pm
by sccjnthn
What's been your most effective form of marketing? Are you taking any thing that walks through the door or specializing in specific types of shit?
Re: Just hit 6 months as a shitlaw solo
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 8:55 pm
by BrokenMouse
lol
Re: Just hit 6 months as a shitlaw solo
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 8:56 pm
by Anonymous User
sccjnthn wrote:What's been your most effective form of marketing? Are you taking any thing that walks through the door or specializing in specific types of shit?
Most effective form of marketing is dose personal relationships.
I define my practice by exclusion (I.e. shit I *don't* do) although I focus my bz development efforts on a few areas.
Re: Just hit 6 months as a shitlaw solo
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 8:56 pm
by transferror
Does owning a business help get you laid?
Re: Just hit 6 months as a shitlaw solo
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 8:58 pm
by Anonymous User
BrokenMouse wrote:Anonymous User wrote:Well I was offered some midlaw interviews. But turned them down once own Biz looked viable.
what was the reason for being canned at Biglaw? is it common?
Firm had mahor reduction. First in first out. Of course its common, do you live under a rock? This is one reason why I said no to further interviews. Done with this game.
Re: Just hit 6 months as a shitlaw solo
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 8:59 pm
by Anonymous User
transferror wrote:Does owning a business help get you laid?
I totally plan to bang my girlfriend in my office. DAT freedom man.
Re: Just hit 6 months as a shitlaw solo
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 9:03 pm
by BrokenMouse
lol
Re: Just hit 6 months as a shitlaw solo
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 10:18 pm
by sinfiery
Do you know people? Do you network? Are you good at it? Or is this something any lawyer with a degree that has lay prestige can pull off? (given competence or whatever)
Re: Just hit 6 months as a shitlaw solo
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 10:22 pm
by Anonymous User
I mean, networking is such a sterile term. Sure, I belong to a trade association and community groups and shit and I take customers, vendors, and support people out to dinner and drinks and such. I'm good at it in the sense that unlike most lawyers I'm not an idiot when it comes to business. Its a pretty low bar.
Re: Just hit 6 months as a shitlaw solo
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 10:29 pm
by glitched
School, grades, girth?
Re: Just hit 6 months as a shitlaw solo
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 10:30 pm
by sighsigh
glitched wrote:School, grades, girth?
Also, debt amount?
Re: Just hit 6 months as a shitlaw solo
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 10:33 pm
by Anonymous User
sighsigh wrote:glitched wrote:School, grades, girth?
Also, debt amount?
School is T-14. Grades are . . . wait a minute, did you really think your fucking grades mattered in shitlaw? Really? (Interestingly enough the T-14 does impress some clients.)
My debt has no end. It is as grains of sand in the desert or the stars in the sky, beautiful in its terrifying vastness.
Girth is 6in give or take a meter.