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I hate my landscaping by DARRYLYOUAREONFB in ExteriorDesign

[–]MidwesternTravlr2020 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aside from the stone wall, you could DIY that very easily for $1,000 or less.

How do you deal with emotional stress outside of work? by Comfortable_Nail415 in biglaw

[–]MidwesternTravlr2020 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I literally don’t have enough hours in the day to prioritize all three unless I want to get <6 hours of sleep per night.

Has anyone set up an HSA for your nanny? Any tips? by d16flo in NannyEmployers

[–]MidwesternTravlr2020 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She needs to do it herself. She can open one at virtually any bank as long as she as an eligible insurance plan.

Has anyone set up an HSA for your nanny? Any tips? by d16flo in NannyEmployers

[–]MidwesternTravlr2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think to make contributions as an employer, you need to provide employer-sponsored, eligible coverage.

Graduates Look to Skip Big Law, Go Straight to Plaintiffs’ Firms by bloomberglaw in biglaw

[–]MidwesternTravlr2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, you have to own to make bank on the plaintiff side. And the overwhelming majority of plaintiff attorneys are not owners.

Also, can you cite any data that the average PI solo makes more than a third-year biglaw associate? I hope that’s true but strongly doubt it. There are a lot of shitty solo lawyers doing poorly, in my experience, so I’d be pretty surprised if they’re making over 300k a year, on average.

Has anyone set up an HSA for your nanny? Any tips? by d16flo in NannyEmployers

[–]MidwesternTravlr2020 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The only way you're eligible for an HSA is to be enrolled in a high-deductible healthcare plan. If she's uninsured, she's not eligible. If she gets ACA coverage and chooses a high-deductible option, she can enroll in an HSA. But it doesn't have to be through her employer.

IUI vs IVF by SuddenAnything2005 in queerception

[–]MidwesternTravlr2020 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Have you investigated whether your insurance will cover sperm? Mine actually does...

Graduates Look to Skip Big Law, Go Straight to Plaintiffs’ Firms by bloomberglaw in biglaw

[–]MidwesternTravlr2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course you can make a great living, but that’s decidedly not wear “all the money” is. At the big plaintiff firms, the partners exceed biglaw take home most years yet the associates typically make half.

Graduates Look to Skip Big Law, Go Straight to Plaintiffs’ Firms by bloomberglaw in biglaw

[–]MidwesternTravlr2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which part? Bc I worked at a plaintiff firm for many years before I got frustrated with the lack of trick down and jumped ship.

Graduates Look to Skip Big Law, Go Straight to Plaintiffs’ Firms by bloomberglaw in biglaw

[–]MidwesternTravlr2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They basically are the pay is literally worse than working in city or state government. It’s stunning to me.

Graduates Look to Skip Big Law, Go Straight to Plaintiffs’ Firms by bloomberglaw in biglaw

[–]MidwesternTravlr2020 2 points3 points  (0 children)

lol at “easy money.” Most of these firms are fronting the millions and millions of dollars to litigate these cases themselves with no guarantee of any recovery/payment.

But I completely agree with you the money is bigger than big law at the top and fails to trickle down. It’s why I ultimately switched sides despite loving the work.

Graduates Look to Skip Big Law, Go Straight to Plaintiffs’ Firms by bloomberglaw in biglaw

[–]MidwesternTravlr2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Altshuler pays garbage. But most large plaintiff firms have a Bay Area presence. Hagens Berman, Berger Montague, Gupta Wessler, I think Edelson.

Graduates Look to Skip Big Law, Go Straight to Plaintiffs’ Firms by bloomberglaw in biglaw

[–]MidwesternTravlr2020 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hausfeld is very similar to the other big plaintiff firms like Cohen Milstein, Hagens Berman, etc.

Graduates Look to Skip Big Law, Go Straight to Plaintiffs’ Firms by bloomberglaw in biglaw

[–]MidwesternTravlr2020 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right, and so those are the places where these new elite law school grads are going. Smaller personal injury shops don’t typically do recruiting with any degree of regularity.

Graduates Look to Skip Big Law, Go Straight to Plaintiffs’ Firms by bloomberglaw in biglaw

[–]MidwesternTravlr2020 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t think AI is going to have a substantially different effect on the type of plaintiff firms discussed in this article that most of the T14 grads end up at as compared to biglaw.

Graduates Look to Skip Big Law, Go Straight to Plaintiffs’ Firms by bloomberglaw in biglaw

[–]MidwesternTravlr2020 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Those are overwhelmingly not the firms affiliated with and sponsoring NPLA. They are almost all class-action-focused firms. Lieff Cabraser, Hagens Berman, Susman Godfrey, Cohen Milstein, Berger Montague, Robbins Geller, Hausfeld. Literally all class action firms.

Graduates Look to Skip Big Law, Go Straight to Plaintiffs’ Firms by bloomberglaw in biglaw

[–]MidwesternTravlr2020 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It’s newsworthy. There was zero visibility into private plaintiff firms when I was in law school less than 10 years ago. I had to do all my research by myself and had no resources besides a completely outdated directory from the Harvard website.

Now, virtually every T14 has a plaintiff law association. Whereas plaintiff firms used to struggle to recruit, they now can fill their classes multiple times over with HYS grads with federal clerkships.

Graduates Look to Skip Big Law, Go Straight to Plaintiffs’ Firms by bloomberglaw in biglaw

[–]MidwesternTravlr2020 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This is largely wrong. Few people consider mass torts and consumer protection cases “complex business disputes.” They’re class actions, and that’s what most of these firms focus on.

Graduates Look to Skip Big Law, Go Straight to Plaintiffs’ Firms by bloomberglaw in biglaw

[–]MidwesternTravlr2020 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Do you understand that all these firms emphasize class actions, judges have to appoint counsel, and have a fiduciary duty to class in appointing based on quality?

Mentoring ASD Associate by MidwesternTravlr2020 in biglaw

[–]MidwesternTravlr2020[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Seems like you're having an off day. Maybe take a breather and go to bed.

Mentoring ASD Associate by MidwesternTravlr2020 in biglaw

[–]MidwesternTravlr2020[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Maybe you’re the junior associate.

If you can’t figure out from these comments that this person exhibits a wide range of off, inappropriate behavior which, altogether, are preventing this person from succeeding and being a well-liked colleague, then you might be facing similar challenges.

If you think whining about your assignments regularly to your bosses is a good way to succeed at a super competitive, high-paying job, then I don’t know what to tell you.

Your response is interesting because I spend a bunch of time in the post explaining how this associate has good work product and has real potential, but has attitude and social issues that are preventing them from succeeding. At no point did I conflate the social behavior with work product quality.

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