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EXPLAIN why being a lawyer sucks these days

Compared to our fathers' generation.
supple newt stage
  09/06/10
- it is significantly harder to get into BIGLAW - Going sol...
Boyish walnut associate
  09/06/10
"In order to practice law, a lawyer needs a place to bi...
Bateful field depressive
  09/06/10
Billable expectations 80% higher, chance of making partner 8...
nudist shitlib
  09/06/10
The fact that all the research is available on the computer ...
motley hyperventilating bawdyhouse fanboi
  09/06/10
i thought about this the other day as i did a control+F on a...
Maroon Internal Respiration Feces
  09/06/10
everything sucks compared to our fathers' generation. we wor...
Ebony High-end Trust Fund
  09/06/10
seems like old school lawyers did way less work, they just k...
painfully honest trailer park
  09/06/10
more hours, e-discovery.
histrionic stock car
  09/06/10
40% more hours, 30% less pay when you take into account infl...
razzle-dazzle goyim spot
  09/06/10
it's far less congenial from what i hear. if you were a l...
Stimulating parlour
  09/06/10
Back in the day, people thought the law was a source of inde...
slippery tanning salon
  09/06/10
Laws are meant to control people, and lawyers are just minio...
laughsome dull coldplay fan
  09/06/10
the laity caught on to the bill-by-the-hour scam and now wan...
Concupiscible anal background story
  09/06/10


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Date: September 6th, 2010 2:38 PM
Author: supple newt stage

Compared to our fathers' generation.

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Date: September 6th, 2010 2:48 PM
Author: Boyish walnut associate

- 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: Bateful field depressive

"In order to practice law, a lawyer needs a place to bill."

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Date: September 6th, 2010 2:42 PM
Author: nudist shitlib

Billable expectations 80% higher, chance of making partner 80% lower.

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Date: September 6th, 2010 2:44 PM
Author: motley hyperventilating bawdyhouse fanboi

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: Maroon Internal Respiration Feces

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: Ebony High-end Trust Fund

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: painfully honest trailer park

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: histrionic stock car

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: razzle-dazzle goyim spot

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: Stimulating parlour

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1415946&forum_id=2#15978998)



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Date: September 6th, 2010 9:28 PM
Author: slippery tanning salon

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: laughsome dull coldplay fan

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: Concupiscible anal background story

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)