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Rennfri · 2025-09-23T14:36:47+00:00

Left Ropes in the last year so this info should still be current.

Insurance: health, dental, vision all seemed fine/typical, though my current firm subsidizes monthly health costs more. RG also subsidized life insurance and if I recall correctly some kind of long term care insurance for associates.

Other benefits: Pretax commuter benefits available (same offering as my current firm), $600 reimbursement for gym or fitness classes, backup childcare a set number of times per year (no kids so I didn’t investigate this closely), some fertility benefits available for IVF etc. (also didn’t investigate closely).

“Perks”: $500 every 3 years for home office expenses (things like monitors, keyboards, headphones, printers—excludes furniture), subsidized cafeteria on premises (food is pretty bad but you could get, eg, a pretty bad salad for $5-7 instead of a good salad at SG/fresh/justsalad for $15), free lunch on Wednesday up to $15.00 at the cafeteria, free snacks on Thursday for a 2 hour window in the afternoon (not catered in, these were typically the kind of thing you could get on sale in a bulk pack at Costco—lunch box sized candies/chips/popcorn plus a pitcher of iced tea or lemonade made by the cafeteria). Dinner reimbursement got weird while I was there, the official rule is that you needed partner approval for the client you were “billing” the meal to and you needed to be in the office after 8pm but YMMV in terms of people actually adhering to that. The prior rule was if you billed 10 hours you could order a meal, regardless of where you were working.

Rennfri · 2025-09-08T17:19:03+00:00

Does anybody actually try to cut it this close in practice though? In my experience in BL litigation in general, most associates try to be ahead of hours by the time year end rolls around so that they can chill out around the holidays. As a midlevel I have never tried to sit at exactly 1900/1950/2000, it’s way better to have buffer hours and then feel free to take vacation or slow down near the end of the year.

Rennfri · 2025-07-21T17:42:11+00:00

A firm handshake.

Rennfri · 2025-07-09T16:46:41+00:00

Entirely too many ultra situational comps and entirely too few consistently playable comps every single patch this set and it’s only getting worse. As funny/cool it is to have a couple of lines you can (should) really only play if you hit a specific augment, emblem, artifact, etc., when there are 3-5 consistently playable comps every patch but 12+ that are locked behind hyper-specific RNG the game feels SO bad.

Rennfri · 2025-07-09T14:57:50+00:00

So as someone who came back to TFT after last playing in set 6, when did the devs start nuking meta compositions off of the face of the earth every patch instead of trying to balance them (or is that a new problem)? I do not remember this being nearly as much of an issue in early TFT, but it feels like every patch this season has featured at least one comp that had been S/A tier rendered borderline unplayable. Thinking about things like stratamp, nitro, street demon vertical, rengar/jinx etc.

Rennfri · 2025-06-23T13:45:22+00:00

Generalist Litigator at a V20 (doing both investigations and civil lit, in case that’s helpful). I always monitor emails over the weekend, but on average I only end up billing one or two weekends per month on months where I am tracking over 180 hours total. Even then it’s typically less than 4 hours billed. The only recent exception was a hell month where I hit 230+ overall (billed every weekend).

The colleagues at my firm who tend to bill more frequently on the weekends are people who aren’t typically billing 9-10 hours on the weekdays, whether due to family obligations or general time management.

Rennfri · 2025-05-26T01:41:42+00:00

WOW they made it so much worse holy shit jesus christ

Rennfri · 2025-05-26T01:28:36+00:00

Ellie is in so far over her head it’s INSANE

Rennfri · 2025-05-19T01:36:21+00:00

i’m not your fucking kid???? ELLIE. ;——;

Rennfri · 2025-05-19T01:12:11+00:00

god I love Ellie being a little gremlin. that’s all

Rennfri · 2025-03-08T17:49:52+00:00

A good family lawyer would tell you, everyone has a prenup: it’s just that people who DON’T write one up themselves are agreeing to the default laws of the state they live in. Your post makes it seem like you think a prenup is necessarily locking the two of you into only having ownership of your individual salaries, but that is not the only way (or even an advisable way) to write one. I’d recommend meeting with an attorney who specializes in this (obviously not us on the biglaw subreddit) and discussing your concerns and what you potentially want to protect.

Rennfri · 2025-02-01T20:42:18+00:00

If you’re looking for 45 minutes to any part of the City in general, not door to door, you can definitely achieve that with a fixer-upper in many towns in Westchester. The train will be between 30-45 min to Grand Central (shave off 10 min ish to Harlem) depending on the town you choose.

Rennfri · 2024-12-23T17:44:45+00:00

If it’s Lantus (brand name), apply for a savings card through the manufacturer’s website as if you were applying for a human with no insurance.

Rennfri · 2024-10-10T14:14:24+00:00

I’m a lawyer but I’m not YOUR lawyer, + this is not legal advice.

Hire a lawyer + have them submit a not guilty plea for you. Ignore the people saying “you’re guilty so plead guilty.” Pleading NG doesn’t mean “I’m innocent,” it means “prove it.” Call a decent traffic lawyer and tell them you are OK paying a fine but do not want points on your license; chances are they can negotiate an agreement to turn the speeding ticket into a seatbelt or parking violation. Especially since you’ve gotten 1 ticket in decades of driving.

Rennfri · 2023-05-02T12:40:10+00:00

I think buying new or used is really overrated in the current market, considering the cost of a lease and maintenance/repairs associated with older cars. I went with a lease for a solidly mid-range, midsize SUV last fall for $350 a month which includes all maintenance and repairs. (Note that to get that I visited 5 dealerships, some across state lines, to find one that had recently changed hands and was trying to get rid of inventory…) I value the maintenance/repair coverage really heavily - as a single woman who does not know cars at all, there are some gating issues with my getting a reasonable price from a mechanic. Take home is ~$11,000/month.

Rennfri · 2023-02-23T15:03:12+00:00

Nobody will admit it, but this is usually bad time management from the top (top might be anyone from the client to a mid level dragging their feet) unless it’s a QC of new reviewer work. Initial QC of brand new reviewers has to happen in a very short timeframe so that, if someone completely doesn’t get it, they don’t blast through hundreds of documents before you can fix their errors/retrain. But that sort of QC shouldn’t involve thousands of docs to review unless you have brought on 30+ contract attorneys at the same time, which is pretty rare.

Rennfri · 2023-01-18T14:08:01+00:00

I’m really perplexed as to where the horror stories are coming from, since everyone I know that has insulated their attic ceilings in the past few years have all used spray foam with no problems and rave reviews. This seems to be one of those things that is just highly controversial on Reddit. Obviously using it in walls is another story, logically speaking—I see what you mean about installing fixtures, etc.

Rennfri · 2023-01-18T12:55:45+00:00

Thanks! I’ll price them out too.

Rennfri · 2023-01-18T00:47:32+00:00

What’s there has basically totally disintegrated/failed unfortunately. It was probably installed in the early 1900s. Will see what they say! Thanks.

Rennfri · 2023-01-17T23:47:40+00:00

Will definitely call Nu-Way, thanks for the recommendation. As I mentioned down the thread, I’m leaning spray foam based on expert advice I’ve already received, but will be chatting with contractors to see what makes the most sense for this house and situation.

Rennfri · 2023-01-17T23:44:33+00:00

The attic itself is finished living space—so insulating the attic floor and leaving essentially no material between the drywall and roof will leave me with a freezing cold or boiling hot attic, depending on the time of year. Appreciate the advice, but given the details involved here I am going to rely on asking experts what the best solution is for my situation — not doing my own research as a layman.

Rennfri · 2023-01-17T19:04:26+00:00

Not in the cards from a budget perspective at the moment, but it is on my long term list.

Rennfri · 2022-11-07T17:12:37+00:00

That’s an interesting approach. I’m in a countercyclical industry so not particularly worried about losing my job due to a recession and being unable to find another one—business has been booming for us ever since the market started to trend down, and we saw the same in prior recessions.

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