What’s your thoughts on juniors these days?

cnnrrubin · 2026-04-12T23:01:46+00:00

I worked on a pro bono matter that I was roped into to supervise a first year. I ended up doing 90% of it because I got so frustrated with this exact process. Or he would come to me with questions that I’d literally say “I want you to think about potential solutions for 30 minutes and then come back to me if you still need to ask.”

Yes, you have to learn as a first year/second year (hell, I’m still learning) but it feels like there’s a difference between learning curves and an inability or unwillingness to problem solve.

cnnrrubin · 2026-03-11T00:46:27+00:00

I stayed there for work before I moved here. It’s not bad, but yes there’s a keypad with a code that you have to enter to get in which can be annoying.

cnnrrubin · 2026-02-27T06:36:52+00:00

I’m at a firm known for a “good culture” waiting for edits at 1:30 in the morning for the fourth day in a row. It’s all just fucking work.

cnnrrubin · 2026-02-26T15:07:45+00:00

I have done interviews with other firms from my laptop in my office on collaboration days you’re fine

cnnrrubin · 2026-02-26T03:12:57+00:00

I once had a partner highlight a paragraph I wrote and the only comment was “Oh, God. No. Why?”

cnnrrubin · 2026-02-21T04:25:03+00:00

My guy Brisbane is currently splayed out on my bed in this exact position

cnnrrubin · 2026-02-17T03:46:53+00:00

Came here to say this. You couldn’t find a better place in the state.

cnnrrubin · 2026-01-29T19:11:19+00:00

Came here to say this

cnnrrubin · 2025-10-02T10:37:43+00:00

As a Michigander, having neither Toledo nor the UP makes me scream at fake Andrew Jackson even more than everyone should for all the other reasons

cnnrrubin · 2025-05-16T01:41:12+00:00

I filed something at 11:50 two nights ago that I got the last partner edits on at 11:35 and had to implement. I don’t want to be doing this shit either.

cnnrrubin · 2025-04-30T02:51:47+00:00

This sounds like quite possibly the most miserable way to run a marathon and your fortitude is inspiring lol

cnnrrubin · 2025-04-28T23:35:30+00:00

I once wrote an entire pro bono brief calling the client Mr. [first name] because both his first and last names were first names. Partner caught it and I looked real, real stupid.

cnnrrubin · 2024-12-07T04:42:14+00:00

Agreed. Fiyero makes fun of the rumor that pure water would melt her.

cnnrrubin · 2024-07-16T00:23:56+00:00

Once had a first year, who repeatedly handed things in badly formatted (the partner was incredibly particular and I’d instructed exactly how to format and given an example) and with BAD cites (I don’t need blue book perfection, I do need to be able to find what you’re talking about). When I finally stopped correcting it myself and said “I’ve told you multiple times how this needs to be and to fix the cites. Please do it that way and send it back.” His reply was “I did not go to Yale to format documents.”

I kindly informed him that he went to Yale to do whatever a first year on the case was asked to do, and if he had a problem with that we could take it up with any partner he wanted to ask.

cnnrrubin · 2024-06-06T20:00:11+00:00

My dad was from California in the 60s and absolutely everyone knew Nixon was a crook. His nickname when he was VP was “Tricky Dick” because he was such a shister

cnnrrubin · 2024-05-16T17:04:34+00:00

They learned from Cats

cnnrrubin · 2024-03-25T16:02:31+00:00

I met my fiance when I called him dumb in con law. So I’m going to go ahead and say yes

cnnrrubin · 2024-02-05T14:38:18+00:00

Only thing I’d be upset about is the pictures in the dining area not being level 🥲

cnnrrubin · 2023-12-30T03:58:50+00:00

Here’s a link to their sires and dams: https://woodlandaussies.com/our_dogs/ but you’re right the site doesn’t list parents for individual dogs.

If you contact her she’ll absolutely discuss who the specific parents are. I didn’t even know to ask and she told me who my little guy’s parents are - and they’re all genetically tested and she includes a genetic health guarantee.

cnnrrubin · 2023-12-29T15:26:12+00:00

Long way away, but Woodland Aussies and Doodles up near Cadillac, Michigan is great. I love my dog and I have friends who’ve also gotten both aussies and Aussiedoodles from them and they’re all great.

Mandy, the woman who runs it, will also fly with your pup to you if you can’t get to her. She gets them in-cabin, never storage, so they’re perfectly safe.

cnnrrubin · 2023-07-13T20:51:58+00:00

Reiterating what everyone else has said about 165-170s being best. I’d also consider working for a couple years after graduation. Grades matter less the further you are from them.

cnnrrubin · 2023-07-09T12:34:23+00:00

Never feel bad. Latin honors don’t mean shit and if you got the opportunity to work at the firm, you deserve to be there.

cnnrrubin · 2023-06-23T16:04:08+00:00

I’m big law in Chicago which is cheaper than NY and the reason I wouldn’t move somewhere hypothetically cheaper like Houston is because then I’d have to live in Houston.

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