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Are you saying that only the top ~1% of law students are fit for "certain work"?
by HenryKissinger 7y ago
Are you saying that only the top ~1% of law students are fit for "certain work"?
- jdavis703 7y agoWouldn't surprise me. Contracts can get really complicated. For example my lease has a series of addendums that allow me to immediately break it with no financial penalities. Had they paid for better lawyers they might have had a more robust document.
- nowayjosetimes2 7y agodid your landlord use a template or hire a law firm?
- jdavis703 7y agoIt's a multi-billion dollar real estate company, so one assumes they used in-house counsel or a law firm.
- seibelj 7y agoThe firm itself is what’s important. If you have serious issues on the line you don’t nickel and dime, you choose among a few white shoe firms. And those firms are absolutely brutal in who they hire.
- porknubbins 7y agoBiglaw firms generally only do work for large corporations so if you have a biglaw issue you already know that.
- seibelj 7y agoThat is 100% false. Every company I’ve worked for, and none of them were by any means big, paid brand name law firms for work. The thing they all want is money, and if you have money they will work with you.
- nowayjosetimes2 7y agothey're absolutely brutal in that you need to have sailing and jarring your own jam on the 'interests' section of your resume. Let's be real. These biglaw firms have been behind every major legal fuck up from Watergate (https://www.landmarkcases.org/united-states-v-nixon/the-legacy-of-watergate-rethinking-legal-ethics https://www.landmarkcases.org/united-states-v-nixon/the-lega...) to the financial collapse (https://www.dcbar.org/bar-resources/publications/washington-lawyer/articles/january-2010-financial-crisis.cfm https://www.dcbar.org/bar-resources/publications/washington-...). There are a fuckload of dartmouth lacrosse players who put up with the "absolutely brutal" hours, but they're still dartmouth lacrosse players.