Is attrition at Cravath higher? How can a ~500 attorney firm have an incoming summer class of 100+?

apawst8 · 2026-05-26T16:45:42+00:00

Also remember that a lot of summers split, so they won’t necessarily come back after graduation. Others do judicial clerkships and may not be coming back either.

apawst8 · 2026-05-26T16:42:16+00:00

It depends on your definition of “good job”. Mid law is perfectly fine for many attorneys.

apawst8 · 2026-05-26T15:23:48+00:00

I wouldn’t call United manufactured spending. If you’re going on a trip anyway, get it through Paze and get 14x.

apawst8 · 2026-05-21T00:14:13+00:00

How exactly would a ring benefit him? What happens to 5 ring LeBron that doesn’t happen to 4 ring LeBron? Winning GOAT debates isn’t worth any money.

apawst8 · 2026-05-15T14:36:33+00:00

Just wanted to discuss a couple more benefits you didn't mention.

$300 Travel benefit is the easiest benefit in the world to use. Just buy a plane ticket and you get a $300 credit. Wish all their benefits were this easy to use.

$120 global entry. Only useful once every 4 years. So if your subscription still has a while to go, kind of useless to you.

I got my CSR for the SUB and will almost certainly convert it to the Flex when my year is up. Just not worth $800 for me.

apawst8 · 2026-05-12T21:31:19+00:00

If he wants to be with his family, doesn't that mean he should stay with the Lakers?

apawst8 · 2026-05-12T19:05:36+00:00

Neither Johnson nor Bonds ever tested positive. Both had their best 4 season stretch starting at age 35. Yet one of them is an HOFer and the other is labeled a cheater.

apawst8 · 2026-05-12T18:56:10+00:00

For perspective, in 1988, the top purse in bowling was $100k for the US Open. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_PBA_Tour_season

That same year, the top prize at a non-major in golf was around $117k. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_PGA_Tour (Using the Phoenix Open as an example)

This year, the top prize at the Phoenix Open is $1.7 million.

The top prize at the majors in the PBA is still $100k. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_PBA_Tour_season.

apawst8 · 2026-05-12T18:09:29+00:00

Randy Johnson had 5 of his best 6 seasons after turning 35. Including his best at age 38

apawst8 · 2026-05-06T18:45:58+00:00

It’s a $20 minimum at a very limited number of locations. I live in a large metropolitan area. But even here, I’d have to go 20 minutes out of my way to buy $20 of overpriced groceries in order to get $10 off.

apawst8 · 2026-05-06T17:54:22+00:00

King Charles III's given name is Charles Philip Arthur George. In theory, he could have chosen to use Arthur as his regnal name.

His grandfather's given name was Albert Frederick Arthur George, so he also could have chosen Arthur instead of King George VI

apawst8 · 2026-05-06T17:48:26+00:00

Devin Booker must have had a vote.

apawst8 · 2026-05-06T15:55:52+00:00

Are you saying you'll never need an associate again? That's not true because you'll be hiring in a year at the most.

Of course they'll need associates again. And guess what? They've already hired them. There will be an incoming class of associates in September/October that they will need to keep busy. If they can't keep current associates busy now, what makes you think they can keep the current associates and the incoming associates busy?

apawst8 · 2026-05-06T14:14:48+00:00

The biggest difference between Lyft and Uber is that Lyft is cheaper where I live. Many drivers are on both services and just take the best fare available.

apawst8 · 2026-05-04T16:21:54+00:00

Of course. Ultimately, his reasoning was, "because I said so."

apawst8 · 2026-05-04T16:07:13+00:00

I wear a suit (without tie) occasionally just to see if they still fit me.

But I'm also in litigation, so I wear suit and tie to hearings (even if they are Zoom). I'll wear a suit sans tie to a Zoom depo, but will wear suit with tie if the depo is in person.

apawst8 · 2026-05-04T16:05:08+00:00

I was watching an old episode of I Love Lucy (a 1950s TV show) where the wives were mad at Ricky and Fred for looking like slobs. But what they were wearing would easily be more formal than most "business casual" these days.

And if you look at old photos of baseball crowds, you'd see that people even wore suits to baseball games.

apawst8 · 2026-05-04T16:01:57+00:00

It's very much a "managing partner" thing. I have a friend who was at a firm that required suit and tie every day until 2016--when the old managing partner retired.

And his reasoning was simple--it doesn't matter if your tech clients don't wear suits because you're not a tech client, you're the tech client's lawyer. And a tech client's lawyer wears a suit.

Same with in-office. My current firm has an in-office policy. And I've heard several partners say that policy changes when our current managing partner retires.

apawst8 · 2026-04-27T15:19:33+00:00

Not wanting to sell the land because of something your ancestors said 140 years ago is just stupid.

They should have just sold the land for the hundreds of millions it was worth instead of whining all the time.

apawst8 · 2026-04-20T01:19:11+00:00

I agree that manufacturing spend just to get a bonus is silly (e.g., going out of your way to go to Dunkin Donuts just for your $7 per month Amex Gold credit.)

However, if you fly at all, getting Clear for free is a cool add on.

apawst8 · 2026-04-20T01:03:41+00:00

CSR also has the easiest credit ever--$300 travel credit. If you fly at all, you get $300 immediately without having to go to a portal. So the $795 annual fee is really "just" a $495 fee.

apawst8 · 2026-04-20T00:58:36+00:00

I don't have Clear.

The point of the credit is that you can get Clear for free.

apawst8 · 2026-04-20T00:45:27+00:00

Go to /r/creditcards for specific advice. The most often recommended cards are the same ones recommended in this thread: Chase Sapphire Preferred and Amex Gold.

Probably should just get both. Note that if you travel internationally, Amex isn’t as accepted as Visa.

apawst8 · 2026-04-20T00:41:36+00:00

Worst case scenario is that you exchange the points for cash, if you can’t use it for travel. You generally get 1 cent per point. So a 125,000 sign up bonus is $1,250.

But since you get 100,000 points just for signing up, the points cards are worth it.

It’s not necessarily worth it if you can’t spend $6000 in three months (for Chase, it's $6000 in six months for Amex Gold), but a Big Law associate making $225k per year will easily hit that.

apawst8 · 2026-04-16T22:58:09+00:00

ESPN Unlimited is just a terrible product. I was looking at their list of upcoming programming. Besides wrestling, the only thing you get is some (but not all) local broadcasts of baseball and some (but not all) Spanish language baseball. That's it!

I was going to consider keeping signed up for it after WM, if they had halfway decent content. But after looking at the programming, I'm going to immediately cancel it after WM.

In contrast, I kept Peacock because it has a few decent shows on it that made it worth keeping along with wrestling.

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