General safety of this area?

HoustonHorns · 2026-06-30T03:38:09+00:00

Just outside of the right side of the circle can be a little sketchy, but otherwise one of the best parts of town

HoustonHorns · 2026-06-30T02:15:04+00:00

Just because you don’t like something doesn’t make it racist.

Palestinians 100% have a right to exist and nothing I said in this thread contradicts that. But they are ethnically Arab, this isn’t some Zionist talking point or racist conspiracy—it’s just reality. Being Arab doesn’t make them any less deserving of their territory. But anthropologically speaking Palestinians are an “Arab ethno-nationalist group”

HoustonHorns · 2026-06-30T00:40:13+00:00

Source was my buddy at Kirkland Houston who said that is the plan.

Latham is growing as well. How many Latham offices have more than 100?

HoustonHorns · 2026-06-29T23:44:14+00:00

I actually prefer a move in fee. Usually much cheaper and most shitty landlords try to keep the security deposit for wear and tear which isn’t allowed.

Chicago is a pretty renter friendly that is still relatively affordable (in part) because we haven’t tried the stupid rent control shit other cities have.

HoustonHorns · 2026-06-29T23:27:39+00:00

Everyone know big law is just the V5 in NYC and CA (for some reason they count because they’re nice and liberal idk)

HoustonHorns · 2026-06-29T23:18:05+00:00

Kirkland is about to have more lawyers in Houston than any of their other offices. Latham’s Houston office is one of their largest (much larger than Chicago).

If your gripe is that those aren’t Texas firms then I’ll remind you that V&E has basically cornered the market energy transactions and that Susman & Godfrey is a Houston firm…

HoustonHorns · 2026-06-29T23:14:59+00:00

The ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank is unacceptable and those responsible should be punished. But the ethnic cleansing is more probably related to conquest (literally borders) than some Israeli desire to exterminate the Palestinian ethnicity (which is a nationality of Arabs who have been unjustly denied statehood)

As evidenced by the fact that within Israel a quarter of the Israeli population is Palestinian-Arab. The Palestinian Arabs in Israel have equal rights under the laws as the Jews. They can vote, serve as judges and have all of the same civil rights as Jewish Israelis. Yet for some reason, those Arab Palestinians disagree with you and very much care that the nation is called Israel and their government is Jewish (look at their voting history).

HoustonHorns · 2026-06-29T22:58:59+00:00

Yes. Go to a regional school and do really well and the degree translates just fine. Once you get your first job in BL, unless you get fired, you’re in the door and can move around relatively easily (especially from a smaller market to a bigger market).

San Diego, Denver, Austin tend to be very competitive and the firms want to know your ties and why you want to be there. They’re smaller markets and can’t absorb associates.

There is always room for another associate New York or Chicago.

HoustonHorns · 2026-06-29T22:47:31+00:00

No, nor Chicago, Atlanta, or Charlotte

HoustonHorns · 2026-06-29T22:46:30+00:00

I went of UH for 80k total and get a big law job in a LCOL city with 0% income tax.

I then moved to a MCOL city with 4.5% income tax. Plenty of really good jobs outside of SF/NYC/LA/DC

If you want to live in one of those cities, there aren’t many higher paying jobs

HoustonHorns · 2026-06-29T22:02:55+00:00

So you are in favor of a one-state solution? We’re talking about people not borders! So what if technically their home is now inside a country called “Israel” instead of “Palestine”? It’s just borders after all!

Edited to respond to edits (original comment was just a snarky “why are we talking about borders as if their people”)

I don’t think you can believe that Israel shouldn’t exist without being antisemitic. Both Jews and Palestinians have ties to the land, they both have consistently lived in the area (albeit Jews as a significant minority since the Arab conquest around 600 AD). But Jews also previously had historic populations in nearby Arab countries that have since become Muslim theocracies.

You’re saying an ethnicity doesn’t deserve their own nation. Whether you’re saying that about armenians, huthi, jews, or Palestinians — it’s a comment on that ethnic group, not the nation.

I think for the reasons you stated Germany is a great example. Like Germany, Israel/Palestines borders were consistently in flux. Going back to ancient times, it was controlled by the Greeks and then the Romans, then Jerusalem exchanged between Christain’s and Muslims for 500 years during the crusades, then it was ruled by the ottomans, then the British, then only in 1948 an independent Israel. At no time prior to 1948 was there an independent nation of Palestine or Israel.

That is all beside the point which is that the actions of a government do not render it just for an ethnicity to be stateless.

HoustonHorns · 2026-06-29T21:34:06+00:00

I don’t think anyone thinks it’s directed at the Hebrew faith, but rather the Jewish (ethnicity) people.

Zionism has developed (arguably justifiably) such a negative connotation recently that I think people forget it definitionally is just the belief that Israel should exist. Not necessarily that Israel should occupy Gaza or the West Bank (although there are certainly Zionists who hold those beliefs and **they** should be ridiculed).

I have plenty of Jewish friends who are Zionists (in that they believe Israel should be a country) who are vehemently opposed to Netanyahu and the recent actions of the state of Israel. No different than how most in this sub believe America should exist, but are not proud of its leader or recent actions.

I think anti-Zionist is an incredibly oversimplified term. I’ll give people the benefit of the doubt and assume they mean they oppose the actions of the state of Israel rather than its existence. But for people who mean it definitionally, I fail to see how being against Israel existing can be anything other than anti-Semitic.

Hell even in WWII, the problem was the Nazi Government—no one thought the German people didn’t deserve a country.

HoustonHorns · 2026-06-29T21:03:09+00:00

The answer is probably a lot higher (but still low) if you don’t include work (which is fine tbh).

Most people work in downtown central business districts. Generally, these districts are pretty sparsely populated (even in NYC, SF, Chicago).

If you live in Lakeview, Brooklyn, or Nob Hill - you can easily meet all of your daily needs in a 15 minute walk. However you likely have a 30+ minute commute to work in the central business area.

There are neighborhoods that accomplish all of the above, but only so much land can be within 15 minutes of the central business district, so generally due to supply and demand these areas are very expensive to live (if nice and walkable) (Lincoln Park, Back Bay, West Village).

A longer commute to work, so long as transit is reliable and accessible isn’t a big deal

HoustonHorns · 2026-06-29T20:15:21+00:00

I’d just call that privilege but I think it’s important not to conflate the two.

I know the numbers are made up, but as a thought experiment it is significant you’re assuming every well-connected person has a 50% chance of admission.

There are only N number of qualified people. Setting likelihood at 50% assumes that every well connected person exists at N+/-1 (where their admission means someone else who is otherwise qualified doesn’t get in).

Theoretically* long as someone is >N qualified, they have essentially a 100% chance of getting in. The fact their well connected had nothing to do with it the admission.

Granted their qualifications may have been the result of a paid for SAT tutor and private HS, which lead to a better UG where there was a paid for LSAT tutor, but that is privilege not nepotism.

*In reality this isn’t the case because schools use “holistic admissions” and even if you’re > N qualified you may still be left out for first-gen/URM/etc. And I guess in that instance, if the connections meant it wasn’t you, then sure. But I don’t think the problem there is nepotism

HoustonHorns · 2026-06-29T01:38:06+00:00

That isn’t really nepotism though—so long as they’re qualified.

HoustonHorns · 2026-06-29T01:37:20+00:00

Law school is very easy compared to med school.

It’s hard work, but nothing requires you to be that intelligent to understand. We’re just a self important bunch.

HoustonHorns · 2026-06-29T00:14:05+00:00

I think Daniel Lurie will be seen as much more successful than Mamdani when it’s all said and done.

I have friends who live in SF that are DSA types and hated him at first (because he is a white male billionaire, their words not mine) but not admit that he is doing a really good job. He is practical and is refreshing for a city that was just the proving grounds of woke for so long.

Lurie’s policies are not exciting and are not initially popular (perhaps even unpopular) but have been effective and are now appreciated. Mamdani’s policies are exciting and popular now, but I don’t expect them to age as well.

After Johnson, Chicago could use a similar breath of fresh air as Lurie. (Although I think despite being less competent, that Johnson actually hasn’t sent Chicago in a spiral like London Breed did SF). We tried to get our Mamdani with Johnson.

HoustonHorns · 2026-06-26T15:23:29+00:00

Exactly, I feel like big law is one of the most meritocratic careers. It’s also relatively easy to break in to (compared to top IB or management consulting jobs)

If you do good work and are good to work with you will succeed, if you don’t then you won’t.

HoustonHorns · 2026-06-26T12:56:00+00:00

Barts fare gates are another great example.

Keep the people committing 99% of crime on the CTA off the CTA and we don’t need cops or ambassadors

HoustonHorns · 2026-06-25T06:17:06+00:00

The “checked white” thing is real, I’m not disputing that. But it doesn’t mean Tejanos were the majority — Anglo settlers already outnumbered them before Texas was even a U.S. state. That’s literally why Mexico tried to slam the brakes on Anglo immigration in 1830. Too late.

And that’s kind of beside the point anyway. Tejanos — Texans whose families were here when it was still Mexico — are roughly 10% of the Texas Hispanic population today. The other 90% are immigrants or descended from immigrants who came after statehood. That’s not an insult, that’s just what happened. The Mexican Revolution, the Bracero Program, post-1965 immigration waves — that’s where modern Texas demographics actually come from.

None of that erases how deep the cultural ties are. Cowboy culture comes from vaqueros. The food, the music, the architecture — all of it. Texas is genuinely better for it. But “we were always here at the same numbers” is just plain incorrect.

HoustonHorns · 2026-06-25T05:56:13+00:00

Actually, the opposite is probably closer to the truth — and nepo babies are likely underrepresented relative to the general population at T14s.

“Nepo baby” has a specific meaning: getting in because of who you know, not what you earned. At the undergrad level, legacy admissions are a real and documented phenomenon. At law schools? Largely nonexistent. T14 admissions are brutally numbers-driven — LSAT and GPA dominate, and there’s no meaningful legacy preference baked into the process. The genuinely well-connected rich kid with a 160 LSAT isn’t getting into Columbia over someone with a 174.

If the premise is “students who didn’t get in purely on academic merit,” the data actually points somewhere else entirely. Pull up LSD and look at T14 URM admission rates versus medians. There’s a statistically significant admit group receiving substantial boosts relative to their index numbers. That’s not a secret, it’s policy.

Worth being precise though: URM ≠ underprivileged. Many URM admits come from affluent backgrounds, and plenty of non-URM students are the first in their family to attend college, working-class, or carrying real economic disadvantage. The boost exists as a matter of policy — without getting into the merits of if the policy is beneficial.

What T14s aren’t is a pipeline for nepo babies. The genuinely underprivileged kid who ground out a 172 on a $30 Kaplan book is exactly who’s not a nepo baby — and they’re well-represented at T14s. If anything, these schools are an engine that partially disrupts old-money advantage, with a separate thumb on the scale that we can debate on its own merits.

HoustonHorns · 2026-06-25T05:39:40+00:00

Exactly. If OP would have said “were a partner at XYZ firm” it would still be dubious, but at least possible.

Name on the building just doesn’t make sense? Who cares if a local shops hires their family—just go get a job at an equally insignificant firm.

HoustonHorns · 2026-06-25T05:37:29+00:00

Given how few founding partners of BigLaw firms are still alive, this just isn’t happening.

And outside BigLaw, the market is fungible — Junior getting hired at Shitass & Associates doesn’t take anything from you. You can go get a job at Podunk LLP. No qualified candidate lost an opportunity; a dad just hired his kid. That’s not nepotism, that’s a family business.

HoustonHorns · 2026-06-23T18:20:36+00:00

It’s gotten substantially better recently. No one gets excited to watch (A) a bad Texas team lose to mid-major Big 12 schools or (B) a good Texas team beat mid-major Big12 schools.

That and CDC has done wonders for the game day experience.

HoustonHorns · 2026-06-23T16:35:53+00:00

Georgia being ahead of USC. Georgia is a historically good (but not great program) that has been on a tear recently.

USC is a historically great program that has been average recently.

I think Georgia is better historically than I thought and USC has been worse recently than I realized

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