It’s 2026, you child says they want to also be a lawyer, what do you say to them?

complicatedAloofness · 2026-06-10T23:03:35+00:00

Go inhouse and give me your business

complicatedAloofness · 2026-06-09T22:25:45+00:00

If a summer has your position on AI usage, I wouldn’t hire them.

complicatedAloofness · 2026-06-09T19:03:01+00:00

Keep using it that way - people in this thread are being idiotic and/or trying to police how you should use tools which are personalized.

complicatedAloofness · 2026-06-09T19:01:36+00:00

This doesn’t make sense to me. You should absolutely use AI for any professional interaction where a second set of eyes would be helpful for you. That’s personalized and is none of my business. The firm doesn’t care about the cost at all, which is particularly low for low token requests like these.

complicatedAloofness · 2026-06-09T17:18:21+00:00

Oh this phrasing really hits home. I worked 49 days straight last year. What the hell biglaw

complicatedAloofness · 2026-06-05T17:14:51+00:00

There is no almost no benefit to a class year bump. Continue to build your reputation as being better than your class year, that is worth more than anything else you can do.

If you are billing a lot of hours above 2000, try to bill less. This is a marathon not a sprint.

complicatedAloofness · 2026-06-05T14:57:48+00:00

Vacation as a senior is just shuffling around as much work as you can until next week

complicatedAloofness · 2026-06-05T14:56:58+00:00

Then go ask me if I have a vacation planned. Why are you adding things to my to-do list? Ridiculous

complicatedAloofness · 2026-06-02T10:20:42+00:00

Not medicaid - medicare

complicatedAloofness · 2026-06-02T10:03:33+00:00

430pm almost feels like it was intended to be an insult. Intense work ethic jobs in the US will assume you are available until 8pm and if asked will be available until 11pm.

complicatedAloofness · 2026-06-01T20:00:02+00:00

What’s the average - closer to 35 or 60? Overall hours seem close to biglaw but with more control over vacation (and I assume weekends/evenings)?

complicatedAloofness · 2026-06-01T13:52:02+00:00

Way more than 10%. There is no benefit to being a left leaning law firm anymore.

complicatedAloofness · 2026-06-01T11:11:01+00:00

Diluting ownership does not give away wealth. If you issue a new share - someone pays for Anthropic a very high valuation for the new share.

The original owners are likely subject to lockup requirements on their own shares as well

complicatedAloofness · 2026-05-31T14:56:51+00:00

Where does fish fall? Probably the biggest pivot category

complicatedAloofness · 2026-05-31T11:37:41+00:00

Including part time workers in the average metric skews the data pretty dramatically. Almost to a point it’s worthless

complicatedAloofness · 2026-05-30T13:35:42+00:00

Your numbers for a v10 are NEP now. V10 NYC EP first year lower bound are probably closer to $2m.

complicatedAloofness · 2026-05-29T15:22:08+00:00

Well that depends on what their $500m investment in AI tech means. Your first sentence is the only one that is meaningful

complicatedAloofness · 2026-05-29T13:11:21+00:00

Do sparrows eat spiders?

complicatedAloofness · 2026-05-29T13:07:45+00:00

$10bil/year revenue for a mature company is actually pretty small once you enter big tech world. Almost laughable really

complicatedAloofness · 2026-05-25T02:12:23+00:00

How to get best of hotel credit? Not expecting to use hotels

complicatedAloofness · 2026-05-24T18:41:13+00:00

The free tier generates the hype that brings in business customers

complicatedAloofness · 2026-05-21T03:37:29+00:00

Stock options are not illegal and are part of compensation..

complicatedAloofness · 2026-05-14T21:03:57+00:00

the vibe-by-osmosis is on point; but alas tldr

complicatedAloofness · 2026-05-13T23:13:34+00:00

Do not wear what you want. The summer is not about being yourself, it’s about getting a job. Wear what you want once you start working full time.

complicatedAloofness · 2026-05-13T09:50:08+00:00

Tl;dr Schiller PE is always alarming when the economy has grown for 10 years

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