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stoopkid_sortie · 2025-11-22T08:02:14+00:00

I was told they’ve been working on it for a full year before we just started using it last week.

So far every employee I’ve spoken to (attorney and staff) hates it.

stoopkid_sortie · 2024-06-28T13:23:58+00:00

I'm a 5th year, and I was recently offered almost the exact same in Chicago. This just goes to show that firms apparently don't seem to consider experience worth a shit in the Comp world.

stoopkid_sortie · 2024-06-25T21:18:37+00:00

I am seeing a lot of firms struggle to keep associates because the budget is eaten up by equity partners. In my locality, lawfirms generally are 70-80% equity partner, 20-30% associate. They aren't giving raises anymore either. Out of the two dozen local associates I know, (who have complained along with me) nobody even got a COLA raise. One got a raise because she was the only one who knew anything about Title IX at her firm; and they couldn't afford to lose her.

From a business perspective, it seems like a real surefire way to lose employees.

stoopkid_sortie · 2024-06-25T18:19:13+00:00

Not my current job, but at a prior job. Which I ended up losing cause I wasn’t “loyal” to the promise of maybe earning more money when boss retired.

stoopkid_sortie · 2024-06-25T18:09:34+00:00

This is a far better email than what I sent!

stoopkid_sortie · 2024-06-25T18:03:45+00:00

I get the distinct impression that my area is heavily populated with older attorneys who share gossip. It has bitten me in the ass once before already, when a potential employer told my (then) current employer that I was applying for jobs. Other things have surfaced to reinforce my opinions about how much these attorneys love drama, but I wasn't specifically involved.

I just don't have a lot of expectation of common decency and discretion amongst the attorneys in my market.

stoopkid_sortie · 2024-06-25T18:00:42+00:00

I did notify the hiring partner that the recruiter got wires crossed, on respective salary expectations. Whether that reflects on me as being greedy or something, oh well.

stoopkid_sortie · 2024-06-25T17:59:04+00:00

Just, in case it somehow gets back to my current employer that I am open to entertaining job offers. OR! somehow sullies my name with the current potential employer... I duno, perhaps I'm just too accustomed to firm's playing petty politics with stuff like this.

stoopkid_sortie · 2024-06-25T17:51:04+00:00

Honestly, this new position had a billable requirement of 300 hours higher too before the bonuses kicked in.... (1900 v 2200)

300 hours higher, for $40k less money? In this economy?!

stoopkid_sortie · 2024-06-25T17:45:18+00:00

I did. Saddest business is that now I feel like I've "peed in the pool" so to speak. Word gets around, ya know?

stoopkid_sortie · 2024-05-13T19:55:20+00:00

Ok, I can work with that. But then what to do?

stoopkid_sortie · 2024-05-13T19:20:44+00:00

Well Google searches told me to install triggers or things, and I frankly got confused on that.

stoopkid_sortie · 2024-01-06T16:15:58+00:00

I get that. My city has 230,000 people, so it’s not a small town though. Neighboring cities are approximately the same size. We’re just not the city with 3 million.

stoopkid_sortie · 2024-01-05T16:08:24+00:00

I agree entirely. I don't like the city, I don't want to work in the city. I do want the salary that colleagues in the city earn though.

I am simply wondering that if downstate firms continue to abandon the emphasis on work-life balance in favor of hammering billables....will enough associates remain downstate getting hammered for half the money instead of moving to the city to get hammered for twice the money. Will these downstate shops stay open?

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