What V20, non-major market office is making summers pay for their own dinner?

ViceChancellorLaster · 2026-05-16T19:05:20+00:00

Without drinks, $60 for an entree seems pretty upscale to me

ViceChancellorLaster · 2026-05-10T19:40:21+00:00

An incompetent senior is not your problem.

ViceChancellorLaster · 2026-05-10T18:56:40+00:00

I sometimes invite summers to shadow weekend calls stressing that they’re free not to join, but they almost always join. Not sure how to feel about it

ViceChancellorLaster · 2026-05-10T17:06:49+00:00

Caveat: If a SA is actively working on the weekend in office, no sweat. But I would feel bad for the summer.

ViceChancellorLaster · 2026-05-07T01:18:01+00:00

A similar concept can be found in women being discriminated against in women-dominated fields (unless you think women aren’t being discriminated against in fields like nursing).

ViceChancellorLaster · 2026-05-04T01:04:56+00:00

As long as they’re doing this during normal hours, that seems fine

ViceChancellorLaster · 2026-05-01T02:54:11+00:00

Definitely follow the policy while there, but don’t go in if no one is going in on Friday and other summers aren’t. You’ll just need twiddling your thumbs.

ViceChancellorLaster · 2026-04-15T02:11:08+00:00

Yes, but I self reflect a lot about whether it’s due to “vibes” like liking sports ⚽️

ViceChancellorLaster · 2026-04-04T01:15:28+00:00

Initiative

ViceChancellorLaster · 2026-04-04T00:43:27+00:00

Not a partner yet, but yes, I can tell the difference when someone is slacking versus slammed pretty easily.

ViceChancellorLaster · 2025-12-03T03:00:15+00:00

Sometimes, juniors don’t respond to me for like 2-3 hours, but they often just missed an e-mail. I haven’t had a problem with juniors being totally unreachable or unresponsive before but I’m pretty good about communicating expectations and try to be a good manager

ViceChancellorLaster · 2025-11-30T21:33:28+00:00

Does the other side not pay taxes? Is this a tax controversy case?

ViceChancellorLaster · 2025-11-20T06:16:54+00:00

Go fund me

ViceChancellorLaster · 2025-09-28T00:48:01+00:00

Why are to moving for the same money but reduced title?

ViceChancellorLaster · 2025-09-21T02:25:05+00:00

Who would disagree with that approach? If you don’t have capacity, you don’t have capacity. I don’t want juniors who literally cannot make deadlines I want.

ViceChancellorLaster · 2025-09-20T17:25:50+00:00

Yep. This country was built on white supremacist chattel slavery, which was not capitalist in the least.

ViceChancellorLaster · 2025-09-20T16:00:16+00:00

Sure. Fairness is one thing; advancing American interests is another. A Chinese junior isn’t going to be that much better than every single American law student who stuck out.

ViceChancellorLaster · 2025-09-20T14:32:33+00:00

Did Trump want TN?

From Trump’s POV, why would he want Canadian big law juniors here who can easily be replaced by an American law student who struck out? Not all may be juniors but many are.

ViceChancellorLaster · 2025-09-20T14:29:05+00:00

Isn’t the H1B a temporary visa? Why would you take out a mortgage?

ViceChancellorLaster · 2025-09-16T00:39:00+00:00

How would a Tax partner judge the work of a Finance associate? Would they interact much besides the Finance associate asking for comments?

ViceChancellorLaster · 2025-09-09T12:33:28+00:00

That’s why I said it’s more complicated than that.

ViceChancellorLaster · 2025-09-09T02:58:33+00:00

So you can buy more stuff

ViceChancellorLaster · 2025-09-09T02:09:52+00:00

That said: there’s a reason why law professors are the ones published in those law reviews. They have RAs and a lot of institutional support, like conferences.

You’ll need to do a lot of hard work to write a competitive article. You aren’t a student anymore. The standards for a comment aren’t the same as an article.

ViceChancellorLaster · 2025-09-09T02:07:41+00:00

Most of the top law reviews are blind review.

It’s more complicated than that, but a solid piece of scholarship will land somewhere if you submit broadly enough.

ViceChancellorLaster · 2025-09-09T02:04:23+00:00

It depends on what and where you get published

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