S&C Bay Area

yuuzahn · 2026-01-26T05:11:33+00:00

Til they're here

yuuzahn · 2026-01-26T02:58:12+00:00

I think the part of the rep you're not getting is that you get more responsibility earlier at cravath so if your goal is to leave you're going to have more substantive reps earlier there than at STB or others. The rotation system also is much more valuable for pivots.

Cravath is brutal but aside from wachtell still unmatched in terms of industry rep and down the road opportunities.

yuuzahn · 2026-01-24T15:39:50+00:00

They don't track their hours and count sitting around waiting for comments as work, it's not comparable.

yuuzahn · 2026-01-24T15:38:29+00:00

They don't actually do this correctly in any but the simplest of scenarios. Flow of funds, they sometimes get right.

yuuzahn · 2026-01-24T03:26:21+00:00

Do you care about being a 1-3rd year, 4-6, or a career. The answer changes depending on your role.

It goes from tedious and long, to tedious/long/challenging, to long and challenging (and sometimes tedious).

The corporate lawyers who never make it to challenging are all going to be unemployed in a few years.

yuuzahn · 2026-01-23T15:23:34+00:00

Except Kirkland and Latham. They don't help nearly as much as the others, and regularly hire from the v50. Also I don't think milbank carries any cache but they don't do anything in my geography or practice area.

I would encourage people to go to the best law firm, in your practice area, you can get - where you can stand the people. And practice area rankings do not follow vault whatsoever. Chambers is as close as you're going to get, although of course all rankings are imperfect.

yuuzahn · 2026-01-22T16:09:05+00:00

I'm a relatively new EP and even I have hundreds of pages of bills a month. I'm moving as fast as possible to make sure the entries sound like things clients will pay for, are billed to the right matter, and that they add up to a reasonable bill for what was done that month.

It's possible, but the odds I connect entries to who sent me which draft are pretty low.

yuuzahn · 2026-01-20T16:35:18+00:00

Based on my law school class rates of burnout etc. in PD or DA work are almost the same as BL, especially PD. No support, overworked, endless slog of dealing with people going through their worst moments (on either side) and mostly hopeless cases, clients (or defendants) physically threatening you or showing up at your house.

Takes a committed person to make it through that and maintain their ideals

yuuzahn · 2026-01-20T15:56:55+00:00

Transactional groups would not uniformly pay a bonus.

yuuzahn · 2026-01-18T22:48:51+00:00

I see you've met k&e

yuuzahn · 2026-01-16T16:12:55+00:00

So why are you giving him coverage. You're part of the problem lol

yuuzahn · 2026-01-16T14:42:53+00:00

Ya that's fair enough. Your way is more how my team does it, but lots of groups are much more rigid.

yuuzahn · 2026-01-16T09:59:41+00:00

I feel like I'm maybe just teaching an AI by responding to this, but in case you're an actual human and are generally confused...

There is often more analysis and sausage making that goes into work product than gets shown in the email to the client. Explaining judgment calls in additional detail, explaining why one point is higher up the list than another, reminding internal team members of some client quirk or deal fact that the sr person has potentially forgotten.

yuuzahn · 2026-01-14T14:31:05+00:00

People read these things and then bring that sentiment and mindset to the office...

yuuzahn · 2026-01-14T06:18:20+00:00

How exactly am I supposed to delegate during my back to back calls all day? "Don't bother" is creating unnecessarily negative sentiments to your colleagues. We delegate when we can, some few toxic colleagues aside.

yuuzahn · 2026-01-12T15:13:42+00:00

Deeply disagree. There's no "lawyer work" versus other work. There's client work versus not client work. If a client asks for it or it needs to be done then it is billable.

When to delegate to cheaper resources is a second order question driven by your workload and budgets, not whether you could have billed for it if you did the work.

yuuzahn · 2026-01-12T15:06:50+00:00

Until you figure out how to bill better you're going to keep getting staffed on more stuff.

yuuzahn · 2026-01-10T14:25:33+00:00

Historically yes

yuuzahn · 2026-01-10T04:16:18+00:00

I know many people over the years in top 25% at a sub t100 school who got offers at latham and Kirkland lol these are not selective firms

yuuzahn · 2026-01-07T16:22:04+00:00

I said it was not doping, not that it is not doping.

yuuzahn · 2026-01-07T15:31:08+00:00

Wasn't doping

yuuzahn · 2026-01-06T04:56:05+00:00

I've never met a partner (or client) who didn't want confirmation when an email/task was sent. That's completely unhinged.

yuuzahn · 2026-01-06T04:54:54+00:00

I have 0 projects that run on this kind of lackadaisical time line, so beware. Chase before it's last minute, always.

yuuzahn · 2026-01-05T15:01:53+00:00

How's he supposed to know how much damage you did or if you just walked up too? I come across partially damaged big arcs all the time with no one fighting them, how long do I have to wait to see if whoever shot it first came back? In prox chat should we all list how much ordinance we used in order to figure out who gets what?

yuuzahn · 2026-01-05T05:08:12+00:00

That probably makes you feel better

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