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OldGoldBeard said:
Too bad we can't say the same about your posting.

Boom, killshot. Go wash that cheese out of your beard, champ, I mean, "chump."
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How do you know I have a beard? Creepy, man.

Also, Palma in the afternoon.

 
talk about weird: ferrell and reilly playing it basically straight until the very end

 
OldGoldBeard said:
Very cool. We need people like that. My uncle--math major, doctor, smartest person I know--is Catholic.


General question: how many hours of actual work do you think you do in a week and, of that work, what percentage could be done by a well-trained monkey?

I would estimate 20-25 hours a week, with probably 25% being outsource-able to monkeys.
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Ugh. Some weeks it over 60 hours, easy (time sheet for October had about 300 hours on it, but that's a record breaker by more than a 50 hour margin). Can monkey's drive cars? I log about 20,000 driving miles a year for ol' Unccy Sam. When self-driving Tesla's hit NC, I'm going to recapture my whole fucking life in time doing reading/work while driving.

Other weeks the fed. employee shtick really comes home. I've had weeks where I do maybe 10 hours of work, half of which is monkey-able.
 
If you guys wanna have an "it's not that bad reality check" then visit this bad boy:

http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=288337

What is your daily/weekly/monthly record?
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Corporate associate.
Month: 324 (no padding)
Week: 89 (included three back-to-back all nighters, was honestly concerned my heart would stop/I may die)
Day: 23 (would have been 24 but I ate food at some point)
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NYC V5, M&A midlevel

Month: 402
Week: 105
Day: 23
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I did 460 in a month at trial a few months ago. It honestly wasn’t that terrible once the numbness set in. 8 to midnight every single day—a couple of all-nighters offset a few 12 hour-days.

Then I billed 75 hours last week in the office and nearly died. It’s a totally different experience.
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Second Year Corporate Associate:

Worst month: 240
Worst week: 85
Worst day: 20
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Latham (from what I can remember):
Month: 280ish
Week: 100
Day: 21

In-house:
Month: Lol really hard to say. Probably like 170 :D
Week: Probably 50
Day: 10
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At a corporate/IP boutique now - my wost weeks/months/days were at a midlaw firm:

Month: 350ish (can't remember the actual number, but it was somewhere in there)
Week: 147
Day: 22.3 (I literally fell asleep on my keyboard on days 2 and 3 of a 3 day all-nighter, otherwise these would have been 24x2)

I was legitimately concerned that I would die after each of these. Maybe I'm just not as tough as others, but I don't get how anyone can work at that type of pace for more than 1-2 years.
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If high school basketball games sold beer scouting would be so much more fun.
 
Milhouse said:
sweet sweet self important lawyers
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It's 100% a thing. It probably comes from the type of person that wants to become a lawyer, and then what they do to us in law school. I used to keep it a lot more real than I do now. It's a giant echo chamber with a combination of, "I want to impress upstream leadership," and, "fucking Lisa down the hall told me she billed 290 last month. Fuck. Man, I fucking hate Lisa. I can't let her rub that in my face again." So lawyers just kill ourselves a lot.

I hate about 99% of the lawyers I meet. Which is fairly consistent with how much I hate myself, so I've got that going for me.
 
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