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Date: September 6th, 2010 2:38 PM Author: maniacal personal credit line Compared to our fathers' generation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15978652) |
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Date: September 6th, 2010 2:48 PM Author: Lavender Judgmental Gay Wizard Athletic Conference - it is significantly harder to get into BIGLAW - Going solo is impossible because of TTT - Salaries outside of BIGLAW have gone down - student debt is a major problem now
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Date: September 6th, 2010 9:31 PM Author: Irradiated maize prole "In order to practice law, a lawyer needs a place to bill." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15982252) |
Date: September 6th, 2010 2:42 PM Author: Underhanded puppy tanning salon Billable expectations 80% higher, chance of making partner 80% lower. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15978680) |
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Date: September 6th, 2010 2:44 PM Author: Charismatic roast beef preventive strike The fact that all the research is available on the computer means that retards can do it pretty easily and a large portion of the intellectual aspect of the profession is dead. This results in a lot more mindless paper pushing to bill sufficient hours. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15978694) |
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Date: September 6th, 2010 2:51 PM Author: Drunken set i thought about this the other day as i did a control+F on a couple hundred pages of statutes. 30 years ago that would've been a days worth of work. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15978745) |
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Date: September 6th, 2010 2:46 PM Author: vigorous peach parlor hunting ground everything sucks compared to our fathers' generation. we work 10X harder and the world has become a fucking AIDS-ridden shithole. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15978710) |
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Date: September 6th, 2010 2:49 PM Author: Green senate legend seems like old school lawyers did way less work, they just knew how to do shit and didn't worry about putting 50 hours of research into something stupid (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15978733) |
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Date: September 6th, 2010 3:24 PM Author: french theater stage fortuitous meteor more hours, e-discovery. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15978960) |
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Date: September 6th, 2010 3:27 PM Author: Hyperactive razzle-dazzle cuckold 40% more hours, 30% less pay when you take into account inflation (outside of biglaw) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15978977) |
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Date: September 6th, 2010 3:30 PM Author: Racy bawdyhouse wagecucks it's far less congenial from what i hear.
if you were a lawyer in the 1950's or something, you actually belonged to a professional guild, and you and your fellow lawyers acted like respected professional men-about-town.
that means you got together with the other lawyers for drinks all the time.
a long lunch with plenty of booze was just another way to build some camaraderie.
the work was often tedious, and unsuccessful solos had a really rough time (then as now), but the whole legal industry was much more genteel and respectable in a lot of ways. |
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Date: September 6th, 2010 9:28 PM Author: Insecure halford mad cow disease Back in the day, people thought the law was a source of independent knowledge. Now we know that it's really just the creation of a bunch of people who really should understand economics a lot better than they do. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15982233) |
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Date: September 6th, 2010 9:40 PM Author: shivering confused giraffe Laws are meant to control people, and lawyers are just minions that usurp wealth and feed the bureaucracy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15982323) |
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Date: September 6th, 2010 9:50 PM Author: pale vivacious state persian the laity caught on to the bill-by-the-hour scam and now want to pay by the project. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15982403) |