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How do you define shitlaw?

Post by paperrev » Mon Mar 26, 2018 4:19 pm

So this is a random question that I suddenly had, but how do you define shitlaw? Is it just based on the number of people at the firm? The type of work they do? Low pay? Suddenly curious to know what other people's definition are for the term.

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Re: How do you define shitlaw?

Post by minnbills » Mon Mar 26, 2018 4:46 pm

It's the type of work and pay. In my mind, the term conjures up foreclosure and personal injury mills.

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Re: How do you define shitlaw?

Post by gaddockteeg » Mon Mar 26, 2018 5:01 pm

IMO, shitlaw requires all of the following: high hours, low pay, non-complex work.

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Re: How do you define shitlaw?

Post by Anonymous User » Mon Mar 26, 2018 7:30 pm

Why do you care? Are you so low self-esteem you care that much about how random 23 year-olds on an internet forum view and define your job, when they themselves probably owe more money than they make? :roll:

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Re: How do you define shitlaw?

Post by Bla Bla Bla Blah » Tue Mar 27, 2018 6:16 am

In my experience, it's when every case that comes through the firm is so ill advised that the partners literally shit their pants at the sanctions handed out to them, like candy, every time we file a complaint. Things are so bad at my shit law firm that we literally wipe our asses with the orders because who can afford toilet paper in these circumstances? Hence the term shit law, because our shit is literally all over the law. Literally.

Hope that decisively resolves this issue once and for all.

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Re: How do you define shitlaw?

Post by 1styearlateral » Tue Mar 27, 2018 1:24 pm

minnbills wrote:It's the type of work and pay. In my mind, the term conjures up foreclosure and personal injury mills.
Also, in some cases, insurance defense.

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Re: How do you define shitlaw?

Post by Anonymous User » Tue Mar 27, 2018 1:51 pm

Bla Bla Bla Blah wrote:In my experience, it's when every case that comes through the firm is so ill advised that the partners literally shit their pants at the sanctions handed out to them, like candy, every time we file a complaint. Things are so bad at my shit law firm that we literally wipe our asses with the orders because who can afford toilet paper in these circumstances? Hence the term shit law, because our shit is literally all over the law. Literally.

Hope that decisively resolves this issue once and for all.
+1

On a more serious note, while everyone has a different opinion, its generally low pay for high hours doing repetitive work (with exceptions, of course).

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