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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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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).