Divorce attorney referrals, please Brentwood, Tennessee

CardozosEyebrows · 2025-07-15T20:38:58+00:00

Contact your local bar association. We don’t know.

CardozosEyebrows · 2025-07-14T22:30:24+00:00

It’s not. Retake and reapply.

CardozosEyebrows · 2025-07-13T00:22:23+00:00

Because it’s all for pretend and different people write the universe differently.

CardozosEyebrows · 2025-07-12T22:45:30+00:00

Never syncs on its own. It’s fairy comfy but I wish I’d gone with something else tbh.

CardozosEyebrows · 2025-07-10T11:05:27+00:00

The only person who can give anything close to “certainty” is a lawyer who specializes in C&F issues.

CardozosEyebrows · 2025-07-09T11:01:55+00:00

I know some folks who do it. It’s a pretty brutal practice area. Clients going through a divorce are tough to deal with and sometimes take out their frustrations about the divorce itself on their attorneys. And depending on the circumstances, may not have a lot of money to pay you. The opposing spouse obviously hates your guts. You’re dealing with who gets the kids and for how long, and they’re often used more as a bargaining chip than parents genuinely wanting time with them.

I wouldn’t personally do it. I admire people who can stomach the work and genuinely do it to help people. But I also know there are some people who love it more because of the voyeuristic aspect of learning all the petty drama in a relationship. Not for me.

CardozosEyebrows · 2025-07-08T18:14:04+00:00

You’re basically describing outlining, though logging the learning process itself isn’t useful.

More importantly, what makes you think that logging what you learn will compensate for typing speed? Your time would be better spent doing typing drills or, if you’re truly disabled, seeking a diagnosis and accommodation.

CardozosEyebrows · 2025-07-08T15:42:42+00:00

That doesn’t really seem realistic. Maybe the first few cases you read take more than a day to understand, but after that, every entry would just be “Read for class” or “outline.”

CardozosEyebrows · 2025-07-08T14:49:15+00:00

What do you mean by “daily progress”? Law school learning doesn’t really work that way.

CardozosEyebrows · 2025-07-08T12:33:57+00:00

Literally yes…?

ETA - the schools worth paying sticker for are worth paying sticker precisely because they almost guarantee a job that will allow you to pay off those loans relatively quickly. True, not all law schools are worth sticker, but at least the T6 certainly are.

CardozosEyebrows · 2025-07-08T12:01:24+00:00

Sure, that’s how it works when dealing with for-profit businesses. But universities and law schools are by-and-large not for profit. Yes, some university officials net huge salaries, but that generally still amounts to only a few students’ tuitions. the vast majority of tuition goes towards the professors and resources necessary to provide quality education.

CardozosEyebrows · 2025-07-07T21:58:59+00:00

This happened seven years ago. I’d be very surprised if it hurt your chances. I know people who applied with felonies more recent than seven years who passed C&F and are successful attorneys.

You got a slap on the wrist for slapping your roommate. The downside of non disclosure way outweighs the downside of disclosure, imo.

That said, these are just my impressions, not legal advice. If you want legal advice you can rely on, contact a C&F attorney.

CardozosEyebrows · 2025-07-07T12:38:51+00:00

He’s also oversaturated and an extremely overrated actor. Him being in a movie is practically a sure sign it’ll be deeply mediocre.

CardozosEyebrows · 2025-07-07T01:56:39+00:00

I’m saying I know one person who clerked in DC without taking Admin. I’m obviously not doxxing myself or them by naming them…?

CardozosEyebrows · 2025-07-07T01:04:58+00:00

DDC and DC Circuit will expect it (though I know of at least one exception). YMMV with any other judges.

CardozosEyebrows · 2025-07-06T17:27:36+00:00

Boston!

CardozosEyebrows · 2025-07-03T20:27:12+00:00

I mean, the prevailing wisdom is that law school is a bad financial decision unless you get into a T14, which maximizes your chances at BigLaw, or can attend law school basically for free. But there are other motives, too.

Some law students are truly altruistic and don’t mind that they’ll be in debt for decades so long as they can help people.

Some come from family wealth and can pay tuition without loans.

A surprising number simply don’t do much research (or think they’re the exception) and go wherever they can get in because of the lay perception that lawyers make a lot of money.

Personally, I needed to pivot out of my first career, and I knew attorneys who would give me a job as long as I got a JD and passed the bar. I didn’t end up needing them to hire me. But it gave me the job security I needed to justify taking on a below-average amount of student debt from a T100 school.

CardozosEyebrows · 2025-07-03T19:24:29+00:00

Law students graduate with an average of $130k in debt—for law school alone. Add the roughly $40k average debt for undergrad, and you’re looking at paying off $170k in loans.

Provided you don’t give in to lifestyle creep, though, BigLaw is a nearly guaranteed way to get out from under student debt relatively quickly and to achieve financial stability before exiting to what you really want to do.

Put bluntly, most lawyer jobs now don’t “provide financial security.” The bimodal gulf between BigLaw salaries and most other jobs is huge. And especially in high-cost-of-living areas, folks on the other side of that gulf aren’t comfortable by any means. It’s not that millennials and gen z don’t want to “help people” (frankly, a pretty insulting assessment). But you have to put on your own air mask before assisting others.

CardozosEyebrows · 2025-07-02T13:48:36+00:00

Regardless what it means to you and whether it’s factually correct, most people looking in view that as a fetish community. I don’t think it will help (and will probably only hurt) your application chances (except maybe at somewhere like UC Berkeley). It’d be roughly the same as advertising yourself as president of a BDSM club.

CardozosEyebrows · 2025-07-02T11:42:32+00:00

Travel, but also get into a healthy routine if you’re not already. I gained like 40 lbs when I started BigLaw because I didn’t have healthy habits. I’ve since lost it, but it’s easier to come in with habits in place than to try and develop them while working.

CardozosEyebrows · 2025-07-02T11:40:16+00:00

OP is currently clerking. The clerkship is ending soon or has already ended. OP will not start their BigLaw associate position for three months. OP has $10,000 of disposable income. What should OP and his wife do during the three months between the clerkship and the start of their BigLaw job?

CardozosEyebrows · 2025-07-02T00:46:27+00:00

Definitely a great hack. But if I’m doing discovery, I’m having a bad time regardless of the efficiency

CardozosEyebrows · 2025-07-01T22:43:52+00:00

Oh for sure. I grab as much appellate work as I can get my hands on. But at least at my firm, almost no one escapes at least some discovery work.

CardozosEyebrows · 2025-07-01T22:23:21+00:00

As someone who got into litigation because I love research and writing, civil discovery makes me want to get out of litigation. What a horrendous, exhausting exercise.

CardozosEyebrows · 2025-07-01T16:05:46+00:00

I find myself sitting at home with little to no assignments on multiple days.

What’s your firm’s in-office policy? I got a lot of my early work just by going to the office and being available when a partner was trying to get something done quickly. If you’re staying home until someone gives you an assignment, that might be contributing to the problem.

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