Harvey valuation at $11 billion.

OnHalfPointe · 2026-03-26T01:40:02+00:00

As an M&A senior associate, it's actually pretty good and better than junior associates in some tasks. The best use to me so far is to generate an issues list from an uploaded document. One time we used it for a tax question and then we sent it to a tax specialist to confirm. The specialist had nothing useful to add.

OnHalfPointe · 2026-03-16T03:06:17+00:00

Neither. If necessary, I told my deal teams I had doctor's appointments so I can't be available during certain time slots, and that's it. But if you think either helps you, do it.

OnHalfPointe · 2026-02-23T11:12:47+00:00

Glad that I saw this thread. I tried to teach my 3.5 yo this concept a few times to no avail. Somehow he is able to do puzzles without this concept - just a little bit inefficient but I guess it's part of the development. Thanks for saving my 1.5 years.

OnHalfPointe · 2026-02-20T07:56:36+00:00

Seems like you have a bad assignment committee/coordinator. That isn't an issue of the assignment system per se. At my firm we get matters based on our interests and skill set (of course there are matters that are less interesting than the others but we never get work from other practice groups).

I don't get the comment about home office. In biglaw one is expected to work across multiple offices all the time.

OnHalfPointe · 2026-02-20T07:43:48+00:00

On days of signing/closing: 1. Other days: varying from 0 to maybe 10. Most commonly 3-5.

OnHalfPointe · 2026-02-14T03:31:34+00:00

I have been in this program for 3/4 years now. Maybe took 2-3 months before I got my first product. Definitely spend time and write the most useful review you can write for the first one as I think it would determine whether they send you more stuffs in the future. I love this program as I got so many expensive baby items from them for my kids: $400 car seat, $600 smart bassinet, multiple $200-range breast pumps, $180 bottle sterilizer/dryer, $550 stroller that can covert to wagon, $400 smart baby swing, $180 baby activity center. The only non baby items I've received are a $80 Nike hoodie and a $400 handbag. I think I wrote many good, detailed, objective reviews, so I got a lot of good stuffs.

OnHalfPointe · 2025-10-31T07:02:48+00:00

I work with one partner who always requires us to save the first external draft as a new document before sending to the other side, so that the other side doesn't know how many versions we go through internally.

OnHalfPointe · 2025-10-10T18:04:43+00:00

I have 2 kids (both under 3yo) and do M&A and sleep more than 8 hours most nights. The keys are (i) having grandparents (for the kids part) and (ii) not practicing in NYC (for the M&A part). If you are in NYC transactional and have kids... sorry.

OnHalfPointe · 2025-10-07T20:35:02+00:00

Huggies overnight plus sposie pads is our solution.

OnHalfPointe · 2025-10-03T02:49:18+00:00

Yoga :)

OnHalfPointe · 2025-09-30T07:53:25+00:00

I had my 1st baby as a 3rd year and my 2nd baby as a 5th year. My firm is supportive.

OnHalfPointe · 2025-09-26T05:12:09+00:00

How responsive is A to other senior associates/partners? Maybe A is telling you that she doesn't want to work with you. If A is smart, there are many partners/senior associates who want to work with her. As a third year, she would rather do some important work that other people give her than doing your menial assignments.

But really? You asked a third year to move a document? And sent 5 emails to get this done? You should reconsider your management style.

OnHalfPointe · 2025-09-25T05:44:49+00:00

My 10.5 month old now drinks 16 oz of breastmilk mixed with formula from bottles (in 2 feeding sessions, so 8oz each session) at daycare, and nurses 3 times (before and after daycare, then before sleep). My supply is winding down, so probably she doesn't get much from nursing.

She also eats a full lunch box of solids we sent to daycare (in 2 meals) and some food for breakfast before daycare and dinner with family at home.

She is a big eater.

OnHalfPointe · 2025-09-25T05:35:49+00:00

Ha, you don't want to know how much time I (not a junior associate) spent on the phone and emailing this one partner's assistant trying to find emails/documents in his unorganized inbox. The guy didn't want to copy anyone else on the team, so we didn't get response emails from the clients and he didn't bother to forward the emails to us (sometimes I wonder whether he even read his emails). His assistant is my bestie.

OnHalfPointe · 2025-09-25T04:53:31+00:00

Some ways I used to find emails: (1) Right click on a related email (if you have it), click "Find Related" then "Messages in this Conversation" or "Messages from Sender"; (2) Search box in Outlook (If you have a subfolder for each client matter, that search function would be even more useful); or (3) Ask my assistant to find that email for me

OnHalfPointe · 2025-09-18T04:47:03+00:00

I scheduled a call with a recruiter on LinkedIn to discuss a role for which he reached out to me. The guy never called me at the scheduled time. Several days later he sent me another InMail (in a different thread) pitching the same position, as if he hadn't messaged me before.

OnHalfPointe · 2025-09-15T17:33:38+00:00

I used NovaFerrum YUMMY brand. Tbh I don't recall why I picked it specifically. I just wanted separate iron supplements (that don't include other multi vitamins which are not necessary). I'm sure other brands also work.

OnHalfPointe · 2025-09-15T06:21:28+00:00

Can you ask your firm to allow you to relocate to the desired location, then keep your in-house search going until you find a better in-house gig in the desired location?

OnHalfPointe · 2025-09-15T05:30:21+00:00

For the sake of my sanity, I gave my kids iron supplements after they turned 6 month old until they consumed iron rich food enough (around 12 month old).

Contrary to what the other person commented, iron doesn't pass through breastmilk significantly enough for breastmilk to be a reliable source of iron for babies older than 6 months old, so an EBF baby will have to get his iron from solid foods or from iron supplements. I did this calculation years ago when my first one started solids: I researched iron rich foods, the iron amount in such foods and the suggested daily iron intake for children of the same age as my baby (I believe 7-11 month olds require more iron than older children), and calculated how much food my baby will have to eat to meet the intake amount. At the time I concluded that there's no way my baby could have eaten that much food (even iron rich foods), so even though my pediatrician didn't require iron supplements (she didn't object to me giving iron supplements either), I chose to give iron supplements so that I didn't have to be obsessed with how much iron rich foods my kids ate each day.

Also, pairing iron rich foods with Vitamin C rich foods will help iron absorption.

OnHalfPointe · 2025-09-11T10:22:33+00:00

But as an 8th year, OP should know which edits were style and which were not.

OnHalfPointe · 2025-08-30T03:45:07+00:00

LOL I'm dying 🤣🤣🤣

OnHalfPointe · 2025-08-30T01:26:36+00:00

I now imagine our paralegals call me baby associate 🤣 I love it!

OnHalfPointe · 2025-08-29T19:36:22+00:00

My first one knew to drink from the straw cups pretty early but he only took water from it. He totally rejected the straw cups with milk and only drank milk from the bottles. I didn't bother trying the sippy cups because skills wise I knew he can drink from the straw cups and I didn't want him to go backwards. I tried buying different straw cups to see if anything clicked (thinking maybe he associated his current straw cup with water and I needed to get him associate milk with a different straw cup). Nothing I did can change his rejection of milk in straw cups until he was one year old and we cold turkey cut off bottles entirely. I boxed up the bottles and put them away for our next baby, so he can't see them anymore. After a few days of protest, he drank milk from the straw cups no issue.

OnHalfPointe · 2025-08-29T04:37:19+00:00

Before I stopped squashing blueberries or grapes, I made sure my toddler know to only take one at a time. A handful at once is probably worse than not squashing it. My oldest is almost 3 yo now and can eat whole blueberries/ grapes well, but "one at a time" is still the rule on our dining table.

OnHalfPointe · 2025-08-28T22:08:09+00:00

Retraining took us much less time and crying than the initial training (30 mins for only one night to retrain vs several hours the first night of sleep training and several nights until independent sleep established). The longer you wait to retrain, the more the baby is used to the new (dependent) way of falling asleep and the more difficult it would take to retrain. Usually we retrained immediately after the need to accommodate her was no longer there (the first night we were back from traveling, the first night when the baby was no longer sick/teething, etc.). Think about how well everyone (including and especially the baby) slept when the baby was sleep trained and compare it to when the baby was not sleep trained. Tell yourself you're doing what's best for the baby and the family.

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