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typical day in the life of a corporate lawyer

well?
Charcoal comical site love of her life
  06/29/06
Fucks his secretary. goes home to his psychotic wife.
yapping racy ticket booth
  06/29/06
"I could be doing that, but then I'd also have a $1000 ...
Provocative field pozpig
  07/01/06
vault.com ---> industries ---> law They have day-in...
ocher juggernaut becky
  06/30/06
He watches the O'RLY Factor on FOX NEWS!
sadistic soul-stirring sex offender weed whacker
  07/02/06
10 a.m. wake up to the gentle sound of money rustling. 10:3...
razzmatazz foreskin community account
  06/29/06
4 a.m. Wake up to the sound of alarm clock ringing, hit snoo...
Duck-like Trailer Park Fat Ankles
  06/30/06
Can I drink between 10 and 11?
lime nofapping national skinny woman
  06/30/06
Edited: Sure, alcohol burn makes the wacking off that much b...
Duck-like Trailer Park Fat Ankles
  06/30/06
In the PM. I'm home then in my boxlike studio in a trendy b...
lime nofapping national skinny woman
  06/30/06
180
Indecent elite philosopher-king
  06/30/06
What a total fucking lie. As if McD's is open at 4am.
Spectacular iridescent jew
  06/30/06
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5437151/ Oak Brook, Illinois-base...
Duck-like Trailer Park Fat Ankles
  06/30/06
Damn, moving to oak brook now.
Spectacular iridescent jew
  06/30/06
You don't have 24 hour McDonald's... WTF????
lime nofapping national skinny woman
  06/30/06
Isn't the Times Sq. one 24 hours?
diverse clown resort
  06/30/06
So is one by my house on the Island. I thought a lot of the...
lime nofapping national skinny woman
  06/30/06
Even lots of the ones in East Bumfuck are open 24 hours.
amber hyperventilating cruise ship cuck
  07/02/06
flame. associates have to take town cars; only partners get ...
Thriller Organic Girlfriend Potus
  06/30/06
this was getting a 175 until the last one brought it up to 1...
fantasy-prone sanctuary fortuitous meteor
  06/30/06
Agreed dood.
lime nofapping national skinny woman
  06/30/06
This lawyer has sex for less than 2 minutes?
umber dog poop sound barrier
  06/30/06
Hookers don't care.
Duck-like Trailer Park Fat Ankles
  06/30/06
I would think they would prefer it.
umber dog poop sound barrier
  06/30/06
That must be why they get along so well with lawyers.
Duck-like Trailer Park Fat Ankles
  06/30/06
here is joke (imagine it flying) . . . . . here is you...
Thriller Organic Girlfriend Potus
  06/30/06
Just beautiful.
Startled stead gaming laptop
  07/01/06
10:15 teach immigrant the word is 'leisurely,' not 'easurely...
medicated chrome haunted graveyard hospital
  07/01/06
and here i thought i was learning a new word.
Obsidian church kitty
  07/01/06
9:00 am - I just got into the office. The investment banker...
Provocative field pozpig
  07/01/06
i laughed at this. ty.
Indecent elite philosopher-king
  07/01/06
you're too stupid and unprestigious to ever become a biglawy...
brilliant senate mental disorder
  07/01/06
agreed. kill self?
Indecent elite philosopher-king
  07/01/06
A+++++++++
wild preventive strike property
  07/01/06
My days vary a lot. But as a basic template: 9:30 Come ...
Startled stead gaming laptop
  07/01/06
riveting
cowardly vibrant mad-dog skullcap
  07/01/06
How does a negotiation with a document go?
wild preventive strike property
  07/01/06
? I normally negotiate with people about documents. Not ...
Startled stead gaming laptop
  07/01/06
You don't know anything about negotiation, though.
wild preventive strike property
  07/01/06
What do you mean? If you mean that I'm not particularly tra...
Startled stead gaming laptop
  07/01/06
Typical they don't let you get anywhere near money. You'll a...
wild preventive strike property
  07/01/06
far below, even
cowardly vibrant mad-dog skullcap
  07/01/06
In preschool on career day, a v50 partner's child was teased...
wild preventive strike property
  07/01/06
Good thing you attend TAMU then, hotbed of ibank recruiting ...
medicated chrome haunted graveyard hospital
  07/01/06
"i don't do anything important, but, like the other tar...
milky tanning salon turdskin
  07/01/06
Usually pretty one-sided, which is nice because we can feel ...
cowardly vibrant mad-dog skullcap
  07/01/06
This doesn't sound too bad up utnil after dinner.
lime nofapping national skinny woman
  07/01/06
He could cut his day in half if his first revision of the do...
wild preventive strike property
  07/01/06
Corporate associates never know what they're doing. That's w...
cowardly vibrant mad-dog skullcap
  07/01/06
You two are pretty boring. I'd love to hear how your typica...
Startled stead gaming laptop
  07/01/06
My day is pretty similar to yours, actually. Just giving you...
cowardly vibrant mad-dog skullcap
  07/01/06
11:20 get up 11:25 smoke weed 12-2 class 2:20 smoke 3 dr...
wild preventive strike property
  07/01/06
180
cowardly vibrant mad-dog skullcap
  07/01/06
Dr Phil bro? GHEY
lime nofapping national skinny woman
  07/01/06
wtf bro? phil roolz
wild preventive strike property
  07/01/06
IF YOU WANT DIFFERENT DO DIFFERENT- this is not roolz
lime nofapping national skinny woman
  07/01/06
this is the best life.
brilliant senate mental disorder
  07/01/06
it never ceases to amaze me how many people make PTI a cruci...
Indecent elite philosopher-king
  07/01/06
good thing showers and dates don't sneak their way into your...
twinkling stubborn shitlib point
  07/01/06
lmao
lime nofapping national skinny woman
  07/01/06
How do you know when you have the ability to "negotiate...
diverse clown resort
  07/01/06
Depends. To some extent you just have a feel for what peopl...
Startled stead gaming laptop
  07/01/06
So it sounds like you quickly move from having no experience...
diverse clown resort
  07/01/06
Yes. I (and most of my classmates) became responsible for p...
Startled stead gaming laptop
  07/02/06
That does seem quite painful, and unless ? is like 8:15, rid...
Sick pocket flask puppy
  07/01/06
Well I'm writing at a very general level. Replace "neg...
Startled stead gaming laptop
  07/01/06
Hardly -- only an idiot would use lexis.
Sick pocket flask puppy
  07/01/06
haha, i'm not clear on what "troll lexis" even mea...
brilliant senate mental disorder
  07/01/06
Lexis is cheaper and has a better interface. It's the choice...
diverse clown resort
  07/01/06
Westlaw pwns lexis.
laughsome slippery nursing home
  07/01/06
The fact that you can get pleadings from cases handled by qu...
medicated chrome haunted graveyard hospital
  07/01/06
wow, you're gonna be a great lawyer someday!
laughsome slippery nursing home
  07/01/06
I think it's clear I already am. Besides, why re-create the ...
medicated chrome haunted graveyard hospital
  07/01/06
Do they not have pleadings on lexis?
Sick pocket flask puppy
  07/01/06
Not that I recall, but I haven't used Lexis in years.
medicated chrome haunted graveyard hospital
  07/01/06
Sucks to be them.
Sick pocket flask puppy
  07/01/06
yes, they actually do.
Ultramarine cerebral gaping crotch
  07/01/06
Cheaper? WTF? Why would I possibly care if it is cheaper? Le...
Sick pocket flask puppy
  07/01/06
i hate how lexis's citation's must be perfect...if you cite ...
laughsome slippery nursing home
  07/01/06
LOL
cowardly vibrant mad-dog skullcap
  07/01/06
I just can't figure out why they would not have the useful h...
Sick pocket flask puppy
  07/01/06
Both interfaces are fucking hopeless. I'm praying for the d...
Duck-like Trailer Park Fat Ankles
  07/02/06
Are you ever solely responsible for drafting whole, extensiv...
blathering bistre school cafeteria electric furnace
  07/01/06
that'd probably constitute malpractice.
laughsome slippery nursing home
  07/01/06
I don't think anyone has ever sat down (at least not in the ...
Startled stead gaming laptop
  07/02/06
Thanks for the response - so you would say that the challeng...
blathering bistre school cafeteria electric furnace
  07/02/06
The 7 Habits of Highly Useless Corporate Lawyers. "E...
laughsome slippery nursing home
  07/01/06
There are many firms for which this is 100% accurate. Mine,...
Startled stead gaming laptop
  07/02/06
...
Narrow-minded filthy brunch
  01/12/08


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Date: June 29th, 2006 8:33 PM
Author: Charcoal comical site love of her life

well?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6106574)





Date: June 29th, 2006 8:35 PM
Author: yapping racy ticket booth

Fucks his secretary. goes home to his psychotic wife.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6106587)





Date: July 1st, 2006 3:04 PM
Author: Provocative field pozpig

"I could be doing that, but then I'd also have a $1000 a day coke and hooker habit and beat my wife and kids in the Hamptons on the weekends that I see them. This way, I only punish my liver, and what good is a liver if you don't abuse it?"

Tucker Max, in reference to being a corporate lawyer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118224)





Date: June 30th, 2006 3:21 PM
Author: ocher juggernaut becky

vault.com ---> industries ---> law

They have day-in-the-life things.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112338)





Date: July 2nd, 2006 4:14 AM
Author: sadistic soul-stirring sex offender weed whacker

He watches the O'RLY Factor on FOX NEWS!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6122328)





Date: June 29th, 2006 8:45 PM
Author: razzmatazz foreskin community account

10 a.m. wake up to the gentle sound of money rustling.

10:30 be served breakfast in bed by french maid

11:00 be taken by limo to office

11:15 start working

11:45 leave for lunch with client. Take easurely stroll to restaurant.

12:15 arrive at restaurant. Eat steak with client. Drink wine.

2:15 pm Leave restaurant. Take easurely stroll to office.

2:45 Arrive at office. Start working.

3:30 Time for a coffee break.

3:50 Return to your desk. Start working

4:00 Go to CLE seminar. They serve good food.

5:00 Return to desk. No more work, but stay for face time,

5:30 take limo to your private club. Relax with friends.

7:30 meet date for dinner.

9:30 Go dancing.

11:30 Return home, make passionate love

11:32 Fall asleep to the sound of interest accruing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6106646)





Date: June 30th, 2006 3:20 PM
Author: Duck-like Trailer Park Fat Ankles

4 a.m. Wake up to the sound of alarm clock ringing, hit snooze button.

4:15 a.m. Wake up to sound of alarm clock ringing again, drag ass out of bed and into shower.

4:45 a.m. Arrive at office, having picked up McDonald's breakfast on the way.

5:00 a.m. Start working.

12:00 p.m. Order lunch for delivery. Eat at desk.

7:00 p.m. Order dinner for delivery. Eat at desk.

8:00 p.m. Check bank balance online. Notice it is very large. Wish for time to spend it.

10:00 p.m. Go home. Wack off with aid of internet porn.

11:00 p.m. Cry self to sleep.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112331)





Date: June 30th, 2006 3:22 PM
Author: lime nofapping national skinny woman

Can I drink between 10 and 11?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112343)





Date: June 30th, 2006 3:23 PM
Author: Duck-like Trailer Park Fat Ankles

Edited: Sure, alcohol burn makes the wacking off that much better.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112353)





Date: June 30th, 2006 3:23 PM
Author: lime nofapping national skinny woman

In the PM. I'm home then in my boxlike studio in a trendy building.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112359)





Date: June 30th, 2006 3:25 PM
Author: Indecent elite philosopher-king

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112371)





Date: June 30th, 2006 3:47 PM
Author: Spectacular iridescent jew

What a total fucking lie. As if McD's is open at 4am.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112565)





Date: June 30th, 2006 3:49 PM
Author: Duck-like Trailer Park Fat Ankles

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5437151/

Oak Brook, Illinois-based McDonald's, which since 2003 has curbed expansion to improve operations and build traffic at existing stores, now has about 80 percent of its 13,000 U.S. restaurants on some form of extended hours, a spokesman said. At least 12 percent operate around the clock.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112600)





Date: June 30th, 2006 3:52 PM
Author: Spectacular iridescent jew

Damn, moving to oak brook now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112635)





Date: June 30th, 2006 3:55 PM
Author: lime nofapping national skinny woman

You don't have 24 hour McDonald's... WTF????

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112675)





Date: June 30th, 2006 3:55 PM
Author: diverse clown resort

Isn't the Times Sq. one 24 hours?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112679)





Date: June 30th, 2006 3:58 PM
Author: lime nofapping national skinny woman

So is one by my house on the Island. I thought a lot of them were. Unless you live in bumblefuck.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112710)





Date: July 2nd, 2006 11:35 AM
Author: amber hyperventilating cruise ship cuck

Even lots of the ones in East Bumfuck are open 24 hours.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6122521)





Date: June 30th, 2006 3:23 PM
Author: Thriller Organic Girlfriend Potus

flame. associates have to take town cars; only partners get limos

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112357)





Date: June 30th, 2006 3:24 PM
Author: fantasy-prone sanctuary fortuitous meteor

this was getting a 175 until the last one brought it up to 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112365)





Date: June 30th, 2006 3:49 PM
Author: lime nofapping national skinny woman

Agreed dood.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112604)





Date: June 30th, 2006 3:49 PM
Author: umber dog poop sound barrier

This lawyer has sex for less than 2 minutes?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112595)





Date: June 30th, 2006 3:50 PM
Author: Duck-like Trailer Park Fat Ankles

Hookers don't care.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112608)





Date: June 30th, 2006 3:55 PM
Author: umber dog poop sound barrier

I would think they would prefer it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112669)





Date: June 30th, 2006 3:56 PM
Author: Duck-like Trailer Park Fat Ankles

That must be why they get along so well with lawyers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112689)





Date: June 30th, 2006 3:58 PM
Author: Thriller Organic Girlfriend Potus

here is joke (imagine it flying)

.

.

.

.

.

here is your head

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6112706)





Date: July 1st, 2006 12:47 PM
Author: Startled stead gaming laptop

Just beautiful.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6117628)





Date: July 1st, 2006 3:26 PM
Author: medicated chrome haunted graveyard hospital

10:15 teach immigrant the word is 'leisurely,' not 'easurely.'

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118293)





Date: July 1st, 2006 7:18 PM
Author: Obsidian church kitty

and here i thought i was learning a new word.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6119301)





Date: July 1st, 2006 2:55 PM
Author: Provocative field pozpig

9:00 am - I just got into the office. The investment bankers will be here any minute to bully us around with this billion-dollar acquisition they're advising on. I start putting on my kneepads.

10:00 am - The bankers roll in, late as usual, joking about how they make twice as much as us. I get on my knees and start sucking.

10:50 am - Finally, some directors from this prestigious buyout fund show up for the drafting session. One of them tells me to grab him some coffee.

10:54 am - As I'm handing him his mug of coffee, I just barely touch his hand. I almost climax.

11:00 am to 10:45 pm - I suck more people's dicks. Finally, I can go home.

11:05 pm - I'm about to sneak out of the office, when a senior partner leaves me a voicemail telling me that there's a whole bunch of shit to do. I was told during law school that biglawyers work a little less than junior investment bankers, but I guess I was lied to; I'll have to spend the night in the office. Again.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118201)





Date: July 1st, 2006 2:59 PM
Author: Indecent elite philosopher-king

i laughed at this. ty.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118211)





Date: July 1st, 2006 3:11 PM
Author: brilliant senate mental disorder

you're too stupid and unprestigious to ever become a biglawyer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118252)





Date: July 1st, 2006 3:28 PM
Author: Indecent elite philosopher-king

agreed. kill self?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118306)





Date: July 1st, 2006 3:58 PM
Author: wild preventive strike property

A+++++++++

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118448)





Date: July 1st, 2006 3:56 PM
Author: Startled stead gaming laptop

My days vary a lot. But as a basic template:

9:30 Come in, read newspaper.

10am-6pm Talk on phone with people about issues in documents. Eat lunch at desk.

6pm-7:30pm Revise drafts of those documents.

7:30pm-8pm Dinner

8pm-? Revise drafts of those documents.

That's what I do -- negotiate documents, and draft them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118439)





Date: July 1st, 2006 3:57 PM
Author: cowardly vibrant mad-dog skullcap

riveting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118443)





Date: July 1st, 2006 3:59 PM
Author: wild preventive strike property

How does a negotiation with a document go?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118453)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:01 PM
Author: Startled stead gaming laptop

?

I normally negotiate with people about documents. Not with documents.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118460)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:02 PM
Author: wild preventive strike property

You don't know anything about negotiation, though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118463)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:05 PM
Author: Startled stead gaming laptop

What do you mean? If you mean that I'm not particularly trained in negotiation, I'd concede that. If you mean I don't negotiate, I would disagree. I'm not the one negotiating price or major deal terms, but the junior associates pretty regularly negotiate confidentiality agreements, agreements with various agents (i-bank engagement letters, exchange agent agreements, proxy solicitor engagements), language in securities filings, reps in merger agreements, disclosure schedules, etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118481)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:06 PM
Author: wild preventive strike property

Typical they don't let you get anywhere near money. You'll always be below ibankers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118488)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:07 PM
Author: cowardly vibrant mad-dog skullcap

far below, even

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118491)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:09 PM
Author: wild preventive strike property

In preschool on career day, a v50 partner's child was teased mercilessly. It was then I knew a career in law was a dead end.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118494)





Date: July 1st, 2006 5:05 PM
Author: medicated chrome haunted graveyard hospital

Good thing you attend TAMU then, hotbed of ibank recruiting that it is.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118730)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:20 PM
Author: milky tanning salon turdskin

"i don't do anything important, but, like the other tards, i get to 'negotiate' boilerplate clauses."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118537)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:02 PM
Author: cowardly vibrant mad-dog skullcap

Usually pretty one-sided, which is nice because we can feel like we're winning, which is much different than negotiating with the ibankers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118466)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:02 PM
Author: lime nofapping national skinny woman

This doesn't sound too bad up utnil after dinner.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118464)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:05 PM
Author: wild preventive strike property

He could cut his day in half if his first revision of the documents weren't so shitty.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118479)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:06 PM
Author: cowardly vibrant mad-dog skullcap

Corporate associates never know what they're doing. That's why they chose a career of proofreading and due diligence rather than practicing law.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118485)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:08 PM
Author: Startled stead gaming laptop

You two are pretty boring. I'd love to hear how your typical day goes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118492)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:10 PM
Author: cowardly vibrant mad-dog skullcap

My day is pretty similar to yours, actually. Just giving you a hard time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118497)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:10 PM
Author: wild preventive strike property

11:20 get up

11:25 smoke weed

12-2 class

2:20 smoke

3 dr phil

4:30 PTI

5 smoke

3am sleep

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118498)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:12 PM
Author: cowardly vibrant mad-dog skullcap

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118504)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:14 PM
Author: lime nofapping national skinny woman

Dr Phil bro? GHEY

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118511)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:15 PM
Author: wild preventive strike property

wtf bro? phil roolz

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118514)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:18 PM
Author: lime nofapping national skinny woman

IF YOU WANT DIFFERENT DO DIFFERENT- this is not roolz

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118530)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:17 PM
Author: brilliant senate mental disorder

this is the best life.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118527)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:38 PM
Author: Indecent elite philosopher-king

it never ceases to amaze me how many people make PTI a crucial part of their day. that show is still good.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118620)





Date: July 1st, 2006 5:24 PM
Author: twinkling stubborn shitlib point

good thing showers and dates don't sneak their way into your schedule.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118799)





Date: July 1st, 2006 6:33 PM
Author: lime nofapping national skinny woman

lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6119092)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:14 PM
Author: diverse clown resort

How do you know when you have the ability to "negotiate" a particular term, and when that term should be passed to someone higher up? If the negotiate to reach an agreed upon understanding, generally, or are you really getting something more for your side?

Thanks for continuing to contribute even with so many jackasses here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118510)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:19 PM
Author: Startled stead gaming laptop

Depends. To some extent you just have a feel for what people care about. Or you'll negotiate your first ____ agreement/rep/whatever and ask the partner for advice, and by your second or third you'll know what to do on your own. In general, the more something restricts your client, creates liability, or allows the other side to do dangerous things, the less you can do on your own.

In general you negotiate to achieve more for your side, though it depends a bit. But there are a whole lot of provisions in any large contract that the principals don't have an "understanding" about -- no CEO has a clear, well-founded opinion on what his absence-of-changes rep should say -- but that are nonetheless important.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118534)





Date: July 1st, 2006 5:02 PM
Author: diverse clown resort

So it sounds like you quickly move from having no experience to someone with responsibility for at least pieces of the deal. It sounds like a job for someone who likes chatting it up on the phone.

Anyone call you a "f--king monkey scribe" yet?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118716)





Date: July 2nd, 2006 1:31 PM
Author: Startled stead gaming laptop

Yes. I (and most of my classmates) became responsible for parts of deals very quickly. There are deals where I'm the only associate and entirely responsible for things like confidentiality agreements, reps and warranties, disclosure schedules, proxy statement, etc. Partners will occasionally take a quick look. And I talk on the phone a lot.

No one has called me a fucking monkey scribe.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6122946)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:17 PM
Author: Sick pocket flask puppy

That does seem quite painful, and unless ? is like 8:15, ridiculously long.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118524)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:20 PM
Author: Startled stead gaming laptop

Well I'm writing at a very general level. Replace "negotiate and draft documents" with "review emails and troll Lexis" and you have a day in the life of a litigator.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118541)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:22 PM
Author: Sick pocket flask puppy

Hardly -- only an idiot would use lexis.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118552)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:24 PM
Author: brilliant senate mental disorder

haha, i'm not clear on what "troll lexis" even means.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118560)





Date: July 1st, 2006 4:58 PM
Author: diverse clown resort

Lexis is cheaper and has a better interface. It's the choice of champions.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118693)





Date: July 1st, 2006 5:02 PM
Author: laughsome slippery nursing home

Westlaw pwns lexis.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118714)





Date: July 1st, 2006 5:11 PM
Author: medicated chrome haunted graveyard hospital

The fact that you can get pleadings from cases handled by quality firms makes your life much easier. Gibson handled an identical, and very complicated, issue to what I was charged with researching, and I stayed late that night rewriting their work. I next "worked from home" the next two days watching espn and lounging at the pool, then turned in the assignment a full day early.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118747)





Date: July 1st, 2006 5:14 PM
Author: laughsome slippery nursing home

wow, you're gonna be a great lawyer someday!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118754)





Date: July 1st, 2006 5:16 PM
Author: medicated chrome haunted graveyard hospital

I think it's clear I already am. Besides, why re-create the wheel?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118762)





Date: July 1st, 2006 5:14 PM
Author: Sick pocket flask puppy

Do they not have pleadings on lexis?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118755)





Date: July 1st, 2006 5:16 PM
Author: medicated chrome haunted graveyard hospital

Not that I recall, but I haven't used Lexis in years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118764)





Date: July 1st, 2006 5:17 PM
Author: Sick pocket flask puppy

Sucks to be them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118768)





Date: July 1st, 2006 5:17 PM
Author: Ultramarine cerebral gaping crotch

yes, they actually do.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118767)





Date: July 1st, 2006 5:06 PM
Author: Sick pocket flask puppy

Cheaper? WTF? Why would I possibly care if it is cheaper? Lexis is shit. Westlaw is far superior. Nothing is worse that a lexis citation that forces me to use that crap.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118731)





Date: July 1st, 2006 5:07 PM
Author: laughsome slippery nursing home

i hate how lexis's citation's must be perfect...if you cite "columbia law review" it will have no idea what you're doing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118736)





Date: July 1st, 2006 5:08 PM
Author: cowardly vibrant mad-dog skullcap

LOL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118738)





Date: July 1st, 2006 5:09 PM
Author: Sick pocket flask puppy

I just can't figure out why they would not have the useful headnotes like westlaw. The lexis headnotes are worthless. And the key number digest is great.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6118741)





Date: July 2nd, 2006 10:41 AM
Author: Duck-like Trailer Park Fat Ankles

Both interfaces are fucking hopeless. I'm praying for the day that google starts indexing caselaw.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6122440)





Date: July 1st, 2006 6:59 PM
Author: blathering bistre school cafeteria electric furnace

Are you ever solely responsible for drafting whole, extensive deals (like 50 pages and up) or are they derived from other sources? (like multiple authors and existing documents).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6119225)





Date: July 1st, 2006 7:14 PM
Author: laughsome slippery nursing home

that'd probably constitute malpractice.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6119290)





Date: July 2nd, 2006 1:33 PM
Author: Startled stead gaming laptop

I don't think anyone has ever sat down (at least not in the last 40 years) and written a merger agreement from scratch. It would make no sense. I am often responsible for first drafts of merger agreements, but I'll stitch them together from precedents.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6122953)





Date: July 2nd, 2006 2:11 PM
Author: blathering bistre school cafeteria electric furnace

Thanks for the response - so you would say that the challenge of your job lies in deciding the appropriate terms/rules/prices within somewhat standardized formats?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6123191)





Date: July 1st, 2006 7:14 PM
Author: laughsome slippery nursing home

The 7 Habits of Highly Useless Corporate Lawyers.

"Ernie from Glen Burnie", not his real name, is an unreliable but wise childhood friend of mine who likes the works of Hunter Thompson. EFGB is now a partner at a Washington, DC law firm. For years he has claimed that the following--by an unknown and long-dead lawyer, and dated 1836--was discovered during the 1980s in the ruins of an old Episcopal church in a northern Virginia town near our native DC. I would believe EFGB--except that I doubt that the word "weenie" was much in style in the antebellum American south:

1. Be risk-averse at all times. Clients have come to expect this from their lawyers. It's tradition. Honor it.

2. Tell the client only what it can't do. Business clients are run by business people who take risks. They need to be managed, guided, stopped. Don't encourage them.

3. Whatever you do, don't take a stand, and don't make a recommendation. (You don't want to be wrong, do you?)

4. Treat the client as a potential adversary at all times. Keep a distance.

5. Cover yourself. Write a lot to the client. Craft lots of confirming letters which use clauses like "it is our understanding", "our analysis is limited to..." and "we do not express an opinion as to whether..."

6. Churn up extra fees with extra letters and memoranda and tasks. Milk the engagement. (If you are going to be a weenie anyway, you might as well be a sneaky weenie.)

7. As out-house counsel, you are American royalty. Never forget that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6119288)





Date: July 2nd, 2006 1:35 PM
Author: Startled stead gaming laptop

There are many firms for which this is 100% accurate. Mine, fortunately, is not one of them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#6122963)





Date: January 12th, 2008 12:12 PM
Author: Narrow-minded filthy brunch



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=444939&forum_id=2#9151348)