Law

My firm is tracking our office attendance via badge-swipes and sending automated warnings. It doesn't matter if my billables are through the roof or if I’m working until midnight from home. If my phys...

One of our legal assistants has repeatedly complained about me to my boss, and each time my boss has met with me about it. The first complaint was because I made a copy of a document and wrote notes o...

Do you ever discuss salary with your colleagues? Our partner said it was highly discouraged which just makes me want to snoop more.

New bee here. How do you guys handle this long hours work mode? I feel like it’s not sustainable for me.

I started the JD next program yesterday and am so happy there’s an alternative to the LSAT. I know a lot of people are against the program because it’s new, but a standardized test cannot determine th...

Why do we pay paralegals so little? A senior associate completely miscalculated a statutory deadline, and our lead paralegal caught it at 4:30 PM on the final day, staying late on a Friday to fix the ...

Ugh hate being a W2 employee. The thought that I'm losing 200k/year in taxes is wild. They've made it really darn hard to retire early by putting extremely high tax loads on people making under 1m/yea...

I'm at a crossroads. Practicing 10 years, have a small book of my own clients and have a significant position for a huge client. I am the heir-apparent to the senior partner's book. I don't like the r...

How much of your “full self” do you bring to work? I was told that having a visible baby monitor in the background of a remote internal meeting looked uncommitted to the practice. We are an industry f...

Has anyone enrolled in the 100% online JD program at Charleston School of Law? If so what was your experience?

My firm offered a stay bonus. Three people quit last month, so they offered the survivors $15k to sign a one-year commitment letter. I need the cash, but I feel like I’m signing away my mental health ...

Do you combine your personal with your work calendar?

Do you have Memorial Day off?

What’s the last hobby or project you took on for yourself? Looking to find more balance and do things more than just work and attending work related events.

I left my associate attorney position to do a federal clerkship for a year. How do I explain to friends and family that it’s not like a demotion even though I won’t be practicing as an attorney? All t...

I need out of being an attorney, at least for a little while. I can’t continue at my current job the way things are going: I think when I got licensed (3.5 years ago) and started at my firm, I was a b...

I'm seriously misaligned with my job and feel like there's no way out. I'm two years into an estate planning career and know beyond a doubt it's not for me, but have no idea where to go. Are there any...

Lateral/Conflicts question— my spouse is lateraling to a new firm. This is the first time either one of us has lateraled as we’ve been at our firms since law school so dumb question. He’s been coordin...

If you are representing a plaintiff in a personal injury case and you want a treating doctor to be your expert, do you usually pay them for their testimony? I’m thinking a lot would not really want t...

I’m tired of being the PDF Whisperer for a partner who makes 10x my salary. I spent 20 minutes today explaining that you can't search a scanned image of a document unless you OCR it first. If you can’...