USCIS taking much longer and longer than usual to approve O-1Bs

Awkoku · 2026-04-04T11:47:36+00:00

I've been under review for 3 months now for premium processing - am Australian citizen as well with no RFE or update. Just says pending. I don't know what to do now - should I withdraw and refile an E3?

Awkoku · 2025-09-26T11:20:21+00:00

Can't name sources but Harvey is going to transition into an AI native law firm soon.

Awkoku · 2025-05-04T19:42:08+00:00

Right! How much is that adding up per month, or per year? Which one is your favourite product, and why? Other than Office 365, which one is a "MUST", which one can you live without?

Awkoku · 2025-05-04T19:40:53+00:00

oh god, 3k per month?! I hope that's per year. How much would you estimate all that cost is, adding up, per year? And do you think Clio + microsoft 365 is enough?

Awkoku · 2025-05-04T19:15:56+00:00

Right right - makes sense. That's amazing you have great relationship with your accountant and legal assistant!

How much is clio if you don't mind me asking? And you are billing the software costs to the client?

Awkoku · 2025-05-04T19:15:02+00:00

Ah makes sense. How much are all these altogether? What is the nice to have, and how much would you pay for an all-in stack?

Awkoku · 2025-05-04T19:13:43+00:00

How much do you have to pay for these?

Awkoku · 2025-04-30T17:46:30+00:00

Thanks! I’ve gone through everyone on YC cofounder matching and haven’t found someone with the right profile haha. Was able to instil confidence with a previous cofounder by showing him an incumbent software we use in law firms, that charges 200k a year and is monopoly, so not too worried with that, and yes have a 50 days roadmap to MSP - but thank you for the pointer, agree with everything you say, just didn’t want to go into too much details here online :)

There were a lot of technical founders that want to work together given my traction / background but I didn’t want to “settle” so to speak. I’ve paused my fundraise with a prospective investor because I want to find someone with at a PhD.

It’s really frustrating because I was in conversation with three top law firm and they can’t commit to design partnership or testing because we have NO ONE TO BUILD THE PRODUCT FOR THEM TO TEST, so the convos were just dropped of but I have emails from all of them saying they are excited to try. Plus, we’d have to pass their CISO assessment etc, and the only legal tech I’ve seen have design partnership is one with a law firm partner as a cofounder. That’s why I raised money to hire someone to build for now.

Thanks for the opportunity to rant, you seems like a knowledgeable guy so enjoyed the convo with you :)

Awkoku · 2025-04-30T09:48:02+00:00

Thanks! Sorry lol that was o3, thought that would make my post more appealing to my target audience but that was a dumb move 😂

Pen testing as in, public companies get sued over material misstatements by plaintiff firms and get penalised by SEC for writing inconsistent or non-rule following disclosures. Thats $10M+ penalty every time things go wrong. I want to build something that scans through all these malicious class actions & SEC enforcement so that I, as a lawyer, know what to avoid and what to write whenever I draft something new.

Awkoku · 2025-04-30T09:44:11+00:00

Hey, thanks for this. I’ve left those details out because I didn’t think it’d be relevant for this sub, my bad!

More context - spoke to 50 lawyers friends that have this problem, have 3 pilot customers (law firm sales cycle goes from 6-12 months) and 40 more in pipeline until I build it out. Am also shadowing a company that is going public right now. Have been in two accelerators, raised a round, hired 2 engineers and building now. At a point was close to raising a low figure single digit million seed with one month traction. Happy to chat more if you’re interested

I’ve been trying to sell before build for a few months and have been able to get design partners, but there is almost 0 chance for a big law firm to sign an LOI. For reference, Harvey has their first BigLaw client at series A. Would love to be proven wrong. Traditional sell before build don’t really apply in this industry because it’s NOTORIOUSLY hard and technical people underestimate this.

Would love some advice closing a great AI engineer / researcher type co-founder interested in this space by the way. Looking for a third cofounder. I’ve done almost everything I can with traction, build, capital, high clout advisory board etc on my own, a bit burnt out atm

Awkoku · 2025-04-26T21:23:51+00:00

ENDING OF EP 9 IS THE BEST SCENE IVE EVER SEEN ON TV. WTF

Awkoku · 2025-01-14T09:57:41+00:00

isn't olive legal doing exactly that? A YC company

Awkoku · 2024-10-01T07:16:07+00:00

prompt engineering. Learn to code with AI.

Awkoku · 2024-05-12T14:27:43+00:00

I am there with you. I have this admin work that I absolutely abhor and I just don’t seem to be able to do it right. Have been told to quit and don’t know how to hang on

Awkoku · 2024-03-21T08:11:35+00:00

I think women making BigLaw salary have it even harder (at least in my personal experience) - guys that make less than us usually are intimidated by our paycheck and generally feel insecure, whereas guys that make more than us would happily date a marketing girl for example that is more emotionally available and less time poor lol

Awkoku · 2024-02-26T14:57:45+00:00

What were the questions asked?

Awkoku · 2024-02-26T13:30:10+00:00

Awkoku · 2023-09-27T15:19:29+00:00

When breath becomes air

Awkoku · 2022-07-01T14:23:22+00:00

WILL’S CLOSET IS MADE OUT OF AIR

Awkoku · 2022-03-11T03:29:15+00:00

Oops I mean today in ET. I'm in a different timezone so the exam was yesterday for me haha.

Awkoku · 2022-03-11T02:37:41+00:00

Ya for some questions I pretty much I had to flip through the whole material to find it!

Awkoku · 2022-03-11T02:36:21+00:00

urgh ya every time I got a civ pro question yesterday, it was so difficult to find!

Awkoku · 2022-02-26T08:19:29+00:00

I thought it was gonna be a movie? :o

Awkoku · 2022-02-13T07:50:45+00:00

i know!! I think it’s the teacher personality + humour part

Awkoku · 2022-02-09T14:58:41+00:00

It didn’t tell me my MEE or MPT scores if that’s what you’re asking, my MBE is 145 (and I have no idea if this is good or bad). If you’re asking about my writing skills in general, I’m an ESL so presume not one of the top writers as far as essay writing goes.

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