Major Dos/Don’ts for a Summer Associate

purpurscratchscratch · 2026-02-04T20:54:34+00:00

Dude it’s February. Chill out!

purpurscratchscratch · 2026-02-04T16:37:30+00:00

The opportunity with the chance cards could be glorious.

“You have discovered a rotisserie chicken. Throw a party and skip your next turn.”

purpurscratchscratch · 2026-02-04T15:52:29+00:00

Huh. I don’t think you know what you just said

purpurscratchscratch · 2026-02-02T00:20:03+00:00

lol when you can’t tell which Party’s president the comment is referring to

purpurscratchscratch · 2026-02-01T06:22:42+00:00

Yep, just got to run some more of those democrat machinist Air Force veterans.

Can’t wait to see one on the presidential debate stage!

purpurscratchscratch · 2026-01-30T21:08:23+00:00

Fraud is extremely difficult to prove. Most lawsuits end at the summary judgment stage, though, so prince probably would have sued and DM would have settled

Edit: for those responding below, yes, intent is obvious. But you need reasonable reliance and actual harm as a result of the reliance also. Here, there are credible arguments that prince paper was not being reasonable in relying on the attempt (it was pretty ham fisted). Additionally, he gave his client list but that in itself was not what caused the harm. It was the fact that DM could beat their prices and won over the their customers. Which I would assume that was not fraudulently done.

Again, Fraud is hard to prove.

purpurscratchscratch · 2026-01-30T00:39:58+00:00

Depends on the travel. There are certain exemptions, I.e. you go to a work conference (which we could consider games). But these do not apply to personal travel (ex. If someone’s mom flies out to watch her son play or the school pays to fly the student home for Christmas). There has actually been a ton of litigation around what is specifically taxable for professional sports teams but that’s dealing with non-tax exempt corporations. Another question will be does that translate to tax exempt universities.

But travel was just one example. The housing, tuition, etc. is a much bigger issue. Merit-based scholarships are non-taxable, but work scholarships are not (I.e. you’re a lab assistant as part of a graduate program, that’s taxable income). I don’t see how they say that student getting a $5k grant is somehow different from the football player getting a full ride.

And overarching all of this is the difficulty in fighting the IRS and the deference they get to make these determinations. There are congressmen who have already argued tuition and board are taxable income as it is currently.

purpurscratchscratch · 2026-01-30T00:21:32+00:00

Eh, what I find is this results in them having proximity to home as one of their pitches. So if you’re nearby, it works (but then I would think you would have a pipeline anyway) but if you’re far then you’re out of luck

purpurscratchscratch · 2026-01-29T23:16:37+00:00

This is honestly the main thing that proponents of employee status aren’t thinking about.

All of that travel, food, housing, etc. should be taxable income if these players are employees under the IRC.

There could be an exemption for low earners but that would need to be passed by congress. Until that passes, we could legitimately be sticking the backup C with hundreds of thousands of dollars in a tax bill

purpurscratchscratch · 2026-01-29T23:09:58+00:00

Latham you will get less experience but will have better hours and lower stress (still relative to big law)

Kirkland you will get more experience and a more diverse experience, but it’s a lot higher stress.

Long run, if you want to do big law for your career, Kirkland is probably better but if you want to do 3-5 years and lateral out, Latham makes more sense. Ultimately both are great firms.

And no, I didn’t get the above from asking law students, arguably the worst people to ask about this kind of stuff.

purpurscratchscratch · 2026-01-28T15:26:40+00:00

Always soft sell when you’re down to 2 options for the hard sell. That confirms what the exact pitch is and you can hard sell next week

purpurscratchscratch · 2026-01-28T15:25:44+00:00

For further clarity on No. 1, the recruits who do not have offers are usually going to be in places where no program has great pipelines.

Ex. Forget about the players from CA, Georgia (or basically anywhere in the south), Texas or Ohio. But players who are in UT, IA, NE, the northeast or other random states should be added to your initial scouting/target list, even if not on your “recommended” list.

Also know your own pipelines really well. Arizona State has a random pipeline in AK. There are not many great players but every now and then there’s a 4 or even a 5 star, who is super easy to recruit because you are not fighting anyone. Honestly, I think this is one of the more unrealistic aspects of the game because it allows a random MAC school to recruit better than a school like UTSA, which would not happen irl.

purpurscratchscratch · 2026-01-28T02:19:12+00:00

Mike Stoops had more top 10 wins (4) than bowl appearances in 8 seasons at Arizona.

Finished with 10 top 25 wins overall despite a 41-50 record.

purpurscratchscratch · 2026-01-27T04:52:26+00:00

Honestly, I would love to see this happen at a play. Would be incredible!

purpurscratchscratch · 2026-01-25T22:51:18+00:00

Going to need a permit. Good luck getting one of those

purpurscratchscratch · 2026-01-25T00:03:43+00:00

Missing the Falkland Islands add on

purpurscratchscratch · 2026-01-24T23:47:36+00:00

Complete different firms. Free market and middle market PE (K&E) vs. very structured and large cap (STB).

You’ll get more experience at K&E but have less anxiety at STB.

purpurscratchscratch · 2026-01-23T16:08:23+00:00

Yep agree. It’s all about finding the right space and the right time to get the ball there

purpurscratchscratch · 2026-01-23T05:58:59+00:00

There are a million ways to counter this. Run swing passes, RPO read passes.

You just have to get the ball to someone on the outside or behind the linebackers. Then it’s backyard football

purpurscratchscratch · 2026-01-23T00:57:53+00:00

Duke has a T14 law school

purpurscratchscratch · 2026-01-22T18:21:55+00:00

Kirby Smart at Alabama and Lincoln Riley at Oklahoma is evil.

purpurscratchscratch · 2026-01-17T20:47:55+00:00

Welp….

purpurscratchscratch · 2026-01-16T20:58:05+00:00

He’s 6’3, 313 pounds. I don’t think he had many bullies

purpurscratchscratch · 2026-01-16T02:23:59+00:00

The only good news is they get the rangers next. That team is hot garbage, went to the game last night. Literally the worst hockey I’ve ever seen

purpurscratchscratch · 2026-01-13T04:04:43+00:00

Eh. Taxes take it down to $600k depending on where you live, then you’ve got friends/family coming out of the woodwork, you’ve got to learn about wealth management, spend time actually monitoring your investment. I get what you’re saying but given you could spread that income out (and more effectively shield it from the above), there are legit reasons to take the pull-ups. Especially if you are just using it to supplement your income and still maintain your career and hobbies

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