Tuesday, August 04, 2009

FirstLawJob.com Is A Scam, Scam, Scam

Hey Tom, a new company has opened to prey on the hordes of TTT losers who just took last week's NY Bar. There name is FirstLawJob.com and they spamming the job boards.

These scammers have been around in various mutations and forms since the late 1990s. Here's the deal: They tweak your TTT resume and cover letters a bit (like putting your Touro Sports Law Journal experience in boldface type), pull a 1996 Martindale directory out of a dumpster, and mail-bomb a bunch of marginal (and often defunct) shitlaw firms, many of whom haven't hired anyone since the Nixon administration. Of course, they've never actually gotten anyone a job, but the desperation and hopelessness of this market often lulls TTT grads into falling for this scam. They're a bit like the "after-scammers" who phone Ponzi scheme victims and claim to be able to recover their lost investments for an upfront fee. Smart move. After all, if someone was dumb enough to fall for the law school scam, why wouldn't they also fall for this "secondary" charade? This website was alive and well in 2006 when this year's crop of lemmings marched off to the NYC diploma mills. They all thought they'd "beat the system," and now are stuck in a lifetime of non-dischargable debt with no hope of finding ANY job, period. Ain't happening in this market.

Actually, the word "market" is a misnomer when applied to TTT grads, or even bottom half of marginally decent schools like Fordham. There is no non-biglaw legal "market" and hasn't been for years. All there is is hordes of desperately indebted losers begging for whatever gutter job they can scrounge, often under-bidding each other in the process. It's like a reverse auction: "I'll do no-fault for 35 K, 35 K going once, going twice...wait, I'll do it for 33 K. 33 K! Gavel bangs. "Sold!" One no-fault job at Melli Guerin to the 'Bozo grad in the red necktie for 33 K!"

The recent agency postings here calling for unadmitted 2009 grads are telling. These sweatshops want to exploit the false hope of the recent group of lemmings, lulling them into thinking doc review is a "resume booster" and shows initiative, etc. As the old saw goes, "if you're afraid of getting a rotten apple, don't go to the barrell. Get it off the tree. If they let anyone other than 2009 grads into this gulag, word would quickly spead about the dead-end nature of the job and kill morale like a pestilience.

We are at the end of times. Back in 2005, an unadmitted JD could toil in the Paul Weiss cockroach pit for $21 an hour + unlimited OT and $10 a day for food. Now, almost 5 years later, the same shitwork is paying $1 an hour LESS. Just you wait. There's nowhere left to stash these over-leveraged lemmings anymore, and a shitstorm of very pissed-off people are going to start speaking out more and more. You can't have 85-90% of a law school class unemployed and not expect some serious repercussions to follow.

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Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

No, paralegal work is worse. You'll make the same money -- but many career paralegals are GRADE A GHETTO - gutter people [barring the young college grads]. I know I worked with them.

They are stupid, dumb, duuuuuuuh, HOOD RATS like Valvina Scissorhands. Eeeeeeew.....

Anonymous said...

Career paralegals are some of the most strangest and most ghetto people that you will ever meet.

Anonymous said...

They have NO finesse - and they are strange. I worked with them as grad student after I decided to make a move from finance to law and still have to deal with them until I finish law school. They have no polish, no intellectual capacity, no refinement, no inquiring minds, no curiosity - they are strange and dead people. I find nurses and paramedics much more alive and intellectually alive than paras although technically they are on the same level. And yet they are making upwards of $90,000/year not counting overtime.

Anonymous said...

I worked with a Fillipino career lady paralegal at an IP firm. She was making $90,000 a year, she was fat and chubby, a total idiot, she told me she wore thongs everyday [as if anyone cared, was rude and nasty, except to partners, played sly old lady politics, and totally fucked up the IP case. And yet she moved onto get another job for $95,000. I am not sure how this happens with these hookers - maybe they blow someone.

Anonymous said...

For some reason, Filipina women are some of the most underhanded and sneaky people that you will ever meet. Maybe it is a cultural thing? If you see a Filipino in a law firm environment, cover your back.

Anonymous said...

w/ OT career paralegals can make close to 100k at large firms, full benefits, etc...sadness..click click click..McCafe break..click..click click..in the end we just shuffle paper..w/ OT career paralegals can make close to 100k at large firms, full benefits, etc...sadness..click click click..McCafe break..click..click click..in the end we just shuffle paper..w/ OT career paralegals can make close to 100k at large firms, full benefits, etc...sadness..click click click..McCafe break..click..click click..in the end we just shuffle paper..w/ OT career paralegals can make close to 100k at large firms, full benefits, etc...sadness..click click click..McCafe break..click..click click..in the end we just shuffle paper..w/ OT career paralegals can make close to 100k at large firms, full benefits, etc...sadness..click click click..McCafe break..click..click click..in the end we just shuffle paper..

Suicidal Temp said...

A chubby chimp paralegal chick is making $90K/year while I am mopping floors at Starbucks....sigh...the end is surely near....

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

Scotty Farts - nice post. The truth is that a paralegal job is far better for most.

A sr par gig is far easier and far more in demand than some pathetic TTT lawyer.

Don't listed to the LPO charlatans, they want to take all ourt work and ship it off to India.

Paras are good jobs.

SomedayN we will laugh at all of the greedy fools who outsourced the American Middle Class. That day is coming sooner than many think.

Anonymous said...

The blogger says there will be an uprising but he forgets the main reason people go to law school is to show off. "I'm a Juris Doctorate". "I work at Paul, Weiss". "I am like Boston Legal. That's the real me." Thus if they expose the fraud they expose themselves as frauds.

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

"No, paralegal work is worse. "


Wrong! It is the same or better and you dont need the 3 years and $200,000 cost of law school.


Better yet: In California don't even need to go to law school to take the bar. Just skip it!

Anonymous said...

Obama won because of disgruntled middle class mostly white i.e. Iowa and greedy rich.

J-Red said...

Last anonymous is dead on. Hope and Change weren't about Bush foreign policy or our wonderful Bill of Rights. I HOPE Obama can re-instill in me the belief that I can CHANGE my middle class standing and actually distinguish myself in life.

He really stumbled into the right "This isn't what it was supposed to be" moment for 20-35 year olds.

Anonymous said...

christie Julian at update is a fat fat dumb cow piece of shit!

Anonymous said...

OJ is innocent!!!

It's A SCAM Baby!! said...

The poster is WRONG. Agencies aren't hiring new grads b/c they are lemmings (actually, when I started K atty work, most new grads fled, assuming the gig they got was just fucked up and could do better elsewhere).

The agencies are hiring new grads at the request of TTT schools who DESPERATELY need to get even a marginal inflation in employment statistics!!!

The Schools are trying to prolong the lie just a little longer in hopes the economy rebounds enough to cover their asses/lies again.

Guido Rama said...

Let's face it people. I have a far better chance of getting laid as a lawyer than I would as a paralegal. Enough said.

My dick led me to law school.

Anonymous said...

Who are these pathetic people telling lawyers that paralegal work is good?/ Are you kidding me??? I am a grad student who had to work with scum-of-the-earth paralegals and IT IS NOT!!!! Even if you are not making much as a lawyer and have loans, you still have potential and a life and hopefully a BRAIN. Paras have NOTHING!!! Don't tell me it's a good world because I KNOW - and it fucking sucks, assholes!!!!! Fuckin' MORONS!!!!

Anonymous said...

I know for a fact that the NYC area TTT law schools are pulling major strings to get the firms to hire entry-level's.

Anonymous said...

4:03: Firms or Agencies? Firms ain't hiring nobody, let alone TTTs. Agencies make sense, dollars to doughnuts there is some kind of quid pro quo or kickbacks between TTTs & Agencies.

Anyone wanna bet?

Anonymous said...

4:08: Or more likely, TTT scum dean calls up friend in big law firm for a favor. Firm (through agency) hires entry-level TTT grads for 1 month project. 7 months later, TTT scum dean reports grads as fully employed earning 90K a year. Rinse, and repeat.

Anonymous said...

Forget all this sad and dismal crap. What's going on with the losers at S&C? Any update on pervy Clovester, has he managed to take a shower, Gaylard's new lay, are the taxi-boys still assholes, is temp para Randy Hippo still stalking the baesement for fresh meat, is Big Mamma still shitting on temps, has Tiny managed to secure a chocolate lady with his pimple-like dong???What's going on folks????

Anonymous said...

A 2 year nursing degree pays more than a professional doctorate in law. Sad, isn't it?

Of course, it's why I went to the JC to get that 2 year nursing degree!

Anonymous said...

I heard Tiny managed to secure one chocolate lady [he likes the brown/black since he thinks they will put up with his non-existent dong in exchange for his whiteness], but once she caught sight of his, as you say, "pimple" down there she couldn't wait to catch the banana boat back to the Bahamas!!This poor guy is a walking talking ad for EXTEND-Z....

Suicidal Temp said...

Can Extend-z help?????

Anonymous said...

The sad fact is paralegals make more $ than lawyers from third tier schools, close to 100k in litigation at big firms w/ overtime, besides there isn't any prestige in being an attorney these days, construction workers w/ a union are making $35/hour + overtime!!!! top 50 or bust!

Anonymous said...

Work, eat, sleep, click, click, click, McCafe, click, click, click..just going through the motions now..

Anonymous said...

There is no work.

I went to register last week, and was informed that they had received over 300 resumes for one job listing. I was then informed they hadn't received any job orders in a couple of weeks.

Just be grateful that Obama is considering extending unemployment again.

Anonymous said...

Despite an increase jobs for temporary attorneys as cost-cutting corporation clients seek to get the same work done for less than they would have to pay a law firm associate or partner, a glut of laid-off lawyers is making it harder to get this kind of work, too.

A year ago, a lawyer who needed a document review job or another temporary assignment could generally find one. But now there is an oversupply, reports the San Fernando Valley Business Journal (sub. req.).

Hourly pay ranges from $30 to $37—less than what contract attorneys made earlier this year—because of the increased supply of available lawyers, Cameron Peterson of the Los Angeles regional office of Compliance Staffing told the business publication.

“I met a recent grad who went to Duke and Harvard Law School, and had done impressive law clerking,” recounts Peterson, who serves as director of recruiting and staffing for the business. “She can’t find a full-time job in this economy.”

Anonymous said...

"And yet they are making upwards of $90,000/year not counting overtime."

Yeah, you can just walk right into a paralegal job paying that. No experience necessary. Just like being a cop making 100K or a garbage man makeing six figures. Those jobs are all over the place, but since you have a JD you can't apply for them.

Give me a fucking break. If you're so stupid you believe that crap, you deserve to be doing doc. review.

Oh yeah, one more thing. There are no jobs. Nothing at all out there -- nobody in the huge city of New York is hiring. The only option is to temp.
Whatever.

Anonymous said...

Is there a way to collect unemployment and food stamps and work at the same time?? help me - Ruth Madoff

Anonymous said...

"even bottom half of marginally decent schools like Fordham."

Oh yeah, the bottom half of Fordham is working in doc review over at Paul Weiss for 20 an hour. All 700 or so. None of them can find a job. It's biglaw or nothing.

"There is no non-biglaw legal "market" and hasn't been for years."

Right, last time I checked Martindale, there were only small firms and solos or BIGLAW. Nothing in-between. Those small places never hire, and if they do it's only 30K with no posibility of a raise. Not to mention government jobs. The government never hires lawyers.

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Anonymous said...

Hudson Legal is currently staffing the following project:

Start date: ASAP
Location: Midtown, Manhattan
Rate: Rate commensurate with experience
Rate: 2-3 weeks beginning immediately
Requirements: Italian-speaking attorney with prior experience reviewing banking, accounting and financial documents/records in Italian.


If interested, please email your most current resume to LEGALJOBS@HUDSON.COM immediately.

In the Subject Line, please reference ITALIAN REVIEW.

Anonymous said...

How is Clutch to work with???

Anonymous said...

Somebody should go take a big italian dump in hus=dsons lobby.

kill

Anonymous said...

Great post Skadden Farts. The red neck tie bit was laughs. Keep 'em coming.

Anonymous said...

Clutch is an abomination. Steer clear if possible.

Anonymous said...

Is there ANYTHING going on out there - or am I only one sitting at home eating beans?????

August is traditionally slow -- but still!!!

Anonymous said...

It will not pick up until the end of 2010.

If you are in NY, don't forget to file a new unemployment claim when you reach your 1 year anniversary, or your claim won't carry over.

Also, if you plan to kill yourself, please do it at home and don't be messy about it out of respect for those that have to clean up after you.

Cheers.

skinny phoenix girl said...


Right, last time I checked Martindale, there were only small firms and solos or BIGLAW. Nothing in-between. Those small places never hire, and if they do it's only 30K with no posibility of a raise. Not to mention government jobs. The government never hires lawyers.



"Hi, McShill"

McShill said...

You guys relly need to stop feeling sorry for yourself and griping about the lack of jobs and starting salaries. Entry level jobs at 45-60K (generally what a lawyer will get) are not that easy to find. Try doing that with a history degree.

Just because a few people are making 160K doesn't mean that everybody will. Moreover, you have the opportunity to continue to grow your income form your starting salary based on your performance.

For example, an RN or accountannt may start at 60K or whatever, but she's not going to crack 150K 10 years into the profession. A lawyer on the other hand, may start at 45K, but the increase in takehome pay increases rapidly.

However, you have to work at a low salary for a short period of time until you are profitable. New lawyers don't know what the hell they're doing and screw things up left and right. So they're not worth that much.

Once they reach a point where they're not screwing things up, they're profitable. After that, when they learn how to work the system they become very profitable.

Letting the temp agencies jerk you around and give you no substanative skills for 15K more per year is stupid (the average temp in this economy isn't craking 65K if they're not working week-ends.)

Temping makes sense if you have experience and are using the money to start a solo practice or have something you'd rather be doing than a career. However, career temping is plain stupid.

The only exception may be the foreign language temps, but in a good economy, they should be able to land some kind of regular job.

Anonymous said...

My dreams of glory are dashed
The banks & Big Auto have crashed
I have no work
I'm an unemployed jerk
So I think I'll go and get trashed

If I were young and lovely
I'd marry a rich man named Dudley
I'd bare him his brats
And poison his cats
While fucking with all and sundry

But I am but one, defiant
A lawyer without a client
So here's to you
And fuck you too
Too bad we are not all alliant

Anonymous said...

Cracking 65K? I hope I can crack 30K this year.

Lifer said...

4:35

Don't judge me.

Anonymous said...

"Who are these pathetic people telling lawyers that paralegal work is good?"


Fuck you.
Ther are saying not that it is good but better than being a lawyer due to 3 years and expense. plus can exit into a real job.



Obama wson because the middle class dream is a fraud as exemplified by the legal industry and useles overpriced JD degrees.
a bigger scam then Madoff are law schools.

Anonymous said...

Unemployment Statistics:
I guess that when U6 (the most inclusive measure of unemployment by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) hits 20 percent we'll be in a Depression (after all it was estimated to be at 20 percent during the Great Depression). Right now, its at 16.8 percent. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm
The new figures for July will be out in a few days.

Anonymous said...

4:35, you don't know your arrogant, judgemental ass from a hole in the ground. You have no idea what's out there. Do you think we'd be doing this if there was a better alternative? We're looking, believe me. But in case you hadn't noticed (its hard to see what's going on when you have your head up your ass) the economy has tanked, the law schools are still cranking out baby lawyers like the whores that they are, and the law firms are laying off associates and staff in every major US city at an alarming rate. Doc review work isn't coming in (its going out to India) and many of us don't know if we'll be able to pay our rent. So have a nice day, mother fucker. And don't judge lifer. It's rude.

Anonymous said...

Hey, McShill - you make sounds like you hire newbee lawyers. You sound like you know a lot about the whole process. Maybe you should do the profession a favor and guest lecture 1L's about starting salaries for newly minted attorneys.

Anonymous said...

I'm not judging anybody. However, I am judging the post that started this. The post is ridiculous.

The bottom half of Fordham ISN'T unemployed or temping. There ARE jobs. Being a lawyer IS a good career. There ARE options besides biglaw and temping. Shitlaw (I prefer the term small law) IS a better choice than temping. And, being a paralegal ISN't a better job than being an attorney.

Oh yeah. There ARE alternatives (like getting a job at a small firm), and doc review ISN’T going to India. Even if it was, were you planning on making a career out of it.

Anonymous said...

It's normally between 45-60K if you're not specialized (patent or graduated from a good school). The current economy is pushing it down, but it will come back up.

There's generally a pretty good increase 10% or more after 6 months and then up to about 75-80K at one year. Or you lateral.

Anonymous said...

I cannot believe that anyone could live in New York, Chicago, DC, Los Angeles, or SF on 45K a year unless they have no or very low student loan payments, no car, and eat bologna sandwiches every day. And what do you propose that older graduates do? Dump their children off at the local orphanage so they can work for 45 to 60 K a year? Your model will work for a 25 year old with no debt. But we don't see that many youngsters from that group in the doc review rooms - they cannot hack it - generally they end up running out screaming into the night and go home to live with their parents for a few years until they figure out something else to do or get a government shit job.

Anonymous said...

Boston’s Mintz Levin has laid off an undisclosed number of attorneys and staff. Blawgs are reporting that 15 associates were targeted, amongst others.
The firm is also working on making changes in compensation.
Blawgs are also saying the firm conducted a round of stealth layoffs in February.
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo is a general practice law firm employing 500 attorneys worldwide. Headquartered in Boston, Mintz also has offices in New York City, Washington DC, Stamford, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, San Diego, and London.

Anonymous said...

http://www.facebook.com/s.php?q=brooklyn+2012&init=quick#/group.php?gid=66933901386&ref=search

Read the 543 wall post on the BLS class of 2012...we tried to talk these lemmings out of it....to no avail.

Anonymous said...

I have never so much as gotten an interview for a job as a lawyer. I sent out over 250 resumes since 2008. No interviews. Bottom third of my class at a T2 in the midwest.

Anonymous said...

FUCK BIG LAW,
hoope somebody burns down a fuckin big law.

Kill and fuck the foreignors!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

"Letting the temp agencies jerk you around"

4:35- I'd much rather be jerked around by temp agency than have shitlaw partner jerk off on my phone and leave semen for me to sexually harass me. As scummy as temp recruiters are, they are a hundred times less trashy than shitlaw partner. At least temp agency pays you on time.

Anonymous said...

45 K a year is a pathetic salary for a high school dropout, much less an attorney with 7 years of education. It comes out to less than $20 an hour if you assume a 45 hour work week (and most shitlaw lawyers work more like 50-55 hours).

And the clowns on here who talk about "building experience" are very naive. Shitlaw salaries just don't rise much, since so many people already have shitlaw experience. Doing auto accident depositions and cut n' paste discovery motions in insurance defense is a road to nowhere. Even 5 years out most shitlawyers are still south of 75 K. And that's where they'll likely stay until they leave the law behind for good.

Anonymous said...

I agree with 9:39, and I've been around the legal block a few times.

However, the one exception in shitaw, to a lifetime of embarrassing poverty is to become a successful personal injury lawyer.

One big case can land you six figures and many are in the million dollar verdict club.

I interviewed at two PI firms in 2005, both of them had multiple million dollar verdict club members and the parking lot was filled with Range Rovers and Porsche 911 Turbos.

The problem is you need to be completely devoid of having a conscience and be willing to sell your mother out.

Sadly most people who attempt PI work fail miserably, because its very high risk, and end up dancing on the breadline.

Anonymous said...

Fuck this. I'm going to sell my ass.

Anonymous said...


The problem is you need to be completely devoid of having a conscience and be willing to sell your mother out.

Sadly most people who attempt PI work fail miserably, because its very high risk, and end up dancing on the breadline.



Can you please elaborate on your above points?

Anonymous said...

Mr GAYllard is porking a new chick though this time it's a permanent employee, icole something in the electronic discovery department. Apparently, he is still stringing that Michelle, Tina and blond chick from his various cases along as well. How many stairwells does Sullivan have, and even more perplexing_ How can such a TINY THIMBLE SIZED WigWONG keep up!

Clovester still smells and dwells amongst the boxes on S&C's many dimes, along with the HIPPOmaRKS, and fat faced Whoredan, the family trashing ugly stupid bitch who is USELESS. C1 is still C1 Any word from 55?????

Anonymous said...

BIG MAMMA...Ohhhhhh BIG MAMMMA. I haven't seen her scary ass at 55 this week. Better yet, no one is missing, or mugged if food so that scary UGLY fat BEAST must be on vacation. Her husband MUST be is HELL with her fat scary ugly mean rotted self around, and not working all night for triple time which he needs to pay for the REAL LOVIN' he gets when the BIG FAT RAT is away! HAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHHA

Anonymous said...

oooh god when she gets back were gonna have to hear her in the halls trying to force that awful accent and speaking in jibberjab for weeks she wont be able to speak normally and she thinks it makes her look sooooo cool. maybe shell bring back a stash of frozen rastapasta and rum punch at least our food will be safe from eatery until its done!

Anonymous said...

Cant wait for 2012, the slate will be wiped clean!! au revoir pathetic losers!!

Anonymous said...

S&C male staff attorneys are such middle-aged losers and geeks they resort to using TEMPS AS ESCORT SERVICE.
Many a depressed, divorced, angry staff attorney has porked some stupid temp. I urge the temps to find actual men and not these sad basement dwellers. They have many problems - which become clear only when it is too late!!!!
After they have porked you and have had their fill, they will try and get you on the S&C blacklist so that you are out of their hair. Be careful, be very careful - they are one level above janitors but they act like BigLaw partners - plus many are short and have non-existent dongs!!

Anonymous said...

Here is the truth about law and your future in it from someone who KNOWS:

There are just a few routes that your "legal career" will take, despite what career services at your school will tell you. It is VERY RARE to get those BigLaw, big salary jobs. Those who do are constantly stressed out and are honestly some of the biggest assholes and brown-nosing butt lickers I have ever dealt with and NO, I am not saying that out of jealousy. I am thankful every day I didn't get one of these jobs even though I went to a good school because I know now I hate law and want out and it would've been hard with that kind of salary to get off the hamster wheel. If you get one of these, you'll do great financially for a while but a lot of these folks burn out early. Plus, there is the nasty matter of widespread layoffs in BigLaw and I've done doc review with a lot of these former associates who are now making $20 an hour like the rest of us.

You might work for a "small firm" or shitlaw. I did this and quit after 2 months. The asshole, self-important, morbidly obese partner would not even let me off for 2 days to visit a relative from Europe who was having her first visit to the States. It was not that I was needed so badly because he only had like 10 cases and all I did was cut n paste anyway - he did it just to show me he COULD. Screw him - I quit.

You might wind up a "solo." Some solos do well, no doubt. A lot of PI solos do very well but like the previous poster said you have to have little shame. If you like money more than self-respect, go for it. If you are a normal "solo" it's hard to get cases, you get a lot of calls from people shoppin' around for the bargain basement price and do a lot of free consults that never come of anything. I even have people tell me they just needed to see me to find out how to "do it themselves." You may wind up a "sad sack lawyer" making $35K a year going this route. This is me right now, but not for long. I'm getting out. I put out an ad not too long ago to find another lawyer who might want to help me out covering hearings and got at least 75 resumes from people with great credentials, good schools, etc. willing to work for CHEAP. This is the state of law right now.

I know this post is long, but I have been needing to say this stuff for a while to those thinking of law school and to those who have been burned by law and may still be drinking the Kool-Aid and thinking there is still a chance to be successful. No doubt, there is, and if you love law then go for it and best of luck to you. But realistically, law has turned into a low-rent game for the most part. The once respected profession is way too oversaturated and in my area there are lawyers putting up offices in trailer homes (yes! trailer homes!) and store fronts everywhere. THINK before going to law school. It may just be better to find something else to do.

Anonymous said...

Look into paralegal gigs...nice pay, good benefits, stability..can you pls pass the jelly??

Anonymous said...

Oops, I forgot one more category - the "lifer temp" we all know and love. These are some of the best people I've ever worked with - knowledgeable, great personalities, mature, full of lots of good advice (I can thank I lifer for help making my final decision about my future post-law career!). But, do you want to be this guy? He had a great career in firms and in-house but got laid off and his retirement is now eviscerated so he's doing doc review, hoping he can get all the overtime he can and the project will last, he has no retirement and no health benefits. I feel sorry for these poor folks and wish them well, but I refuse to be them.

Anonymous said...

What does Lifer think about this post?

Anonymous said...

Lifer, why did you spend your whole career in document review and not apply to Melli, Guerrin, and Wall?

Anonymous said...

Watch out for mean, sleazy GROSS small firm lawyers and partners - eeeeeeew, some of them are very smarmy and slimy weasals - and they definitely like to hit on women! No attractive woman should work for these sleazoids - it's like keeping flies off honey. Unlike BigLaw, small firm partners are desperadoes and scary creatures!! Many look and act like the Hispanic dude running the local bodega - just as much class and looks!!

Lifer said...

Well, you may not want to be a lifer, and if shit hits the fan you might not have the option to be. Really, the US is bankrupt, so who knows how society will handle it. Will there be anything we take for granted if the dollar standard is lost? Maybe, look at the pound and Euro... I suppose anything is possible.

That said, NYC is maybe the worst place to be to weather this storm, so we're kinda fucked, and I think anyone that isn't simply making as much as they can, planning for some future retirement or career or whatever, is overlooking just how many of these tall office buildings will be empty by 2010.

If you can make the most now temping, do that, spend prudently, and scout cheap homes in the Midwest. Absolutely do not pay Sallie Mae.

Anonymous said...

I was walking on lower Broadway yesterday and it finally struck me how many boarded up stores there were.

I then strolled up into midtown and noticed that the sidewalks were noticeably empty.

I finally realized that the media was lying to us once again. We are entering the 2nd Great Depression.

I agree with OP. Immediately defer your loans if you haven't done so already. Seek to slash your living expenses as quickly as possible. The storm hasn't even begun to rage.

Anonymous said...

Also, don't believe this GDP is improving nonsense. GDP is about as reliable and objective of an indicator as is Joan King's career statistics. The gov't is shitting in its pants knowing that the only way to save this economy is for people to be tricked into believing that the economy is good so that they would once again start spending money they don't have.

Suicidal Temp said...

Holy Shit - from the last few posts I need to get some Diprivan PRONTO!!!!!

I am fucked!!!!

Lifer said...

Lol the media.

(Chinese) cash for clunkers, think about it:

$4,500, and $4,500 discount to get a consumer to spend around $20,000. Well, not spend, BORROW (all cars are basically financed).

Basically the government is picking up 20% of the tab on cars people don't NEED (per terms of plan, car must be driveable).

So, taxes in the sum of $3bn to get people to BORROW $15 bn for cars they don't NEED.

The interest the companies earn will be less than what the Chinese will get, so we lose money there.

All this while each of these companies' cash-burn is $1bn+ a month.

We went into debt for a dead company. Like putting blood into someone shot in the face, while other people have flesh wounds and, oh yeah, it is borrowed blood we have to give back with interest.

Idiots.

Anonymous said...

Lifer, at least you lived through the Great Depression. You know what is coming. I scoff at my doc review colleagues who lived high on the hog during the boom years renting apartments they couldn't afford and taking trips to exotic locals all on hourly gigs devoid of job security.

Anonymous said...

LOL..the US is done, end days nears..stock up on canned goods NOW

Guido Rama said...

Take it easy folks. It's good to stress out about a long-term career plan but don't take it too seriously. Joey Fontanamuccio, a friend of mine, climbed the long hard road to partnership and died of anal cancer last year. The poor fucker - left behind a huge mansion and wife with big melons. I live each day to the fullest - wine, women, song, the beach, occasional prayer and doc review. I'm sure something good will come along. It's important to stay relaxed and happy as well....

Use this time to get in shape, hit the beach and get laid ...summer is only two months long in NYC. Before you know it, reviews will start up again and you'll be back in the arms of some fugly old bitches...get some hot action now!!

Anonymous said...

Anyone here worked with Yorkson Legal before?

Anonymous said...

"It is VERY RARE to get those BigLaw, big salary jobs."

Not really, you have to pay your dues for a few years than lateral, but people do it. Moreover, the pay in mid-size firms isn't bad.

"If you are a normal "solo" it's hard to get cases, you get a lot of calls from people shoppin' around for the bargain basement price and do a lot of free consults that never come of anything."

No it's not. You get the money from them before you do anything. Yeah, there's plenty of scumbag clients who won't pay a dime, but you don't do any work for them. 300 per hour, not 30. Or, you get 1/3 of the settlement. 10-12K for filing a few papers, an apperance or two, and waiting 6 months.

However, to do either of the above, you need experience. And you're not going to get that doc. reviewing.

Anonymous said...

Yorkson, oh Yorkson - how they wooed me and then they booed me.

Schizos - they will fawn all over you one minute [especially if they have a loser project] and not recognize you the next....

I suppose that's all the agencies -it's a shit game -

They're Ok - no better, no worse --

Anonymous said...

"Not really, you have to pay your dues for a few years than lateral, but people do it. Moreover, the pay in mid-size firms isn't bad."

FLAME. You ain't going to lateral from biglaw to Melli Guerrin. Biglaw laterals you one way, right out the door.

Anonymous said...

Maybe you CAN lateral from some small or mid size firm into biglaw, but it's rare. It's also rare to even get that small or medium size firm job at all because there are so many lawyers, new ones becoming unemployed all the time and new ones being graduated/passing the bar every year and the employment rate for them in extremely low.

While it may look like I'd "have to" be a lifer temp or even work in doc review, not so. Honestly, I would rather shovel shit than work in law again, in any capacity. It sickens me. I will do some respectable job that may not make a lot of money but at least allows me to have a life and work around decent people.

Anonymous said...

Lifer- would you consider getting married. I have an old neighbor who is looking for a sprightly young bird - lemme know!!

Anonymous said...

Too bad Circuit City is gone...could have got a part time job there to supplement my income as a clicker...click..click..click....click..McCafe..click

Lifer said...

Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?

Lifer said...

I hate temps that stand around for ten minutes discussing "the arguments" for why they coded a certain way. Fuck... I just click, and I get good feedback. This "rationale" shit wastes so much time. STFU QC coder drones.

Anonymous said...

Things to do tomorrow:
1. kill Bambi or other out-of-season wildlife, butcher and hide in freezer.
2. plant second crop of veggies
3. hide the car from the repo man
4. hotwire phone & cable service from the street connection. Don't give a shit about the phone but I've gotta have the internet.
5. Get the fan out of the attic and figure out how to make dry ice to use with the fan for air conditioning.
6. Can some more pickles and preserves.
7. I'd go fishing but the streams around here are basically sewers - I'm not hard-up enough to eat from them yet.
8. Cut down the neighbors' trees when they aren't looking - I'll need firewood this winter.

That should keep my busy until about 2 pm...

Anonymous said...

Ha, ha, ha....love that list! - sounds like what I draw up every single unemployed morning!! Add to that:
1. Leave dogshit by noisy neighbor's door [can't focus on job hunt with that cunt pounding on floors]
2. Make sure to verbally abuse sleazy old man eyeing ladies in park
3.Cover all supermarkets in 1 mile area to save 10 cents
4. Freeze ANYTHING I can get on SALE!!!!! -
5. Steal free plants from nearby park and learn to do Ikebana with them on days cable is cut
6. Lie out by the river for entertainment
7. Learn to make foods that do not require meat, fish, dairy or even expensive veggies -
8. Dress in a suit every other day to con neighbors into thinking I am still working ...

Anonymous said...

9. Steal paint, bleach and cleaning supplies from super's stash in basement after midnight...

DocReviewRefugee said...

Are there any jobs for contract paralegals in NYC now or are all the few jobs going to attorneys? I have experience in deposition digesting, document coding and review, Bates stamping, hard copy file organization, preparation of records subpoenas.

Anonymous said...

There are no jobs available, sorry.

Anonymous said...

10. Go to local horse stable and get horseshit to fertilize flower beds.
11. Steal neighbors' grass clippings for veggie garden mulch.
12. Sell neighbor's yapping mutt to local restaurant.
13. Sell all the neighbors' dogs to local restaurant.
14. Buy milk.

Anonymous said...

McShill is absolutely DEAD ON. Unfortunately, it's the human condition to play the victim and blame everyone else. It's a fact that it's downright tough out there. However, if you just complain, blame, b**ch and moan, get into racist rants, you will remain unproductive. The funny thing is that most of the people who are ranting and complaining now, are the same ones who ranted and complained when the job market was actually decent. A few days ago I was speaking with a doc review attorney who did not even know what "Martindale" is?! Unbelievable! Perhaps doc review IS all that doc reviewers can do. That said, "if you only do what you've always done, you'll only get what you've always gotten." In support of McShill's argument, I attending a TTT and went from earning $45k in my first job to earning $110k four years later. I'm also almost done paying one of my loans and I've only been out of school 6 yrs. It CAN be done. Please, let the bashing begin...... lol

Anonymous said...

15. Invite 5:58 for dinner. Kill neighborhood cat. Pass off as fresh roasted rabbit.

Anonymous said...

16. Learn how to siphon gas without swollowing.

Anonymous said...

17. Steal neighbor's New York Times
18. Steal neighbor's umbrella
19. Cut duct tape from basement pipes to seal holey sneakers
20. Jigger something hard and heavy to long broomstick to bang on ceiling for noisy cunt
21. Ring the bitch's doorbell at 1 a.m and run

Anonymous said...

22. Buy laundry detergent from Rite Aid, take out half and return rest saying it causes allergy.
Same with shampoo, lotions, hair dyes, toothpaste,
23. Buy suit from Macys, wear to interview with recruiter cunt and return

Anonymous said...

5:16 Get lost - you have no skills!!!

Anonymous said...

The list is brillant!

Anonymous said...

5:58

People on this board like to play victum.

Also, you have to see it from there perspective. Some of them are simply incapable of succeding outside of doc. review.

So a boss at a small firm bitches, makes their life miserable, and won't give them a raise until they finally quit. From their perspective small firms work is "shitlaw." However, if you're good in small law, you're treated well and rewared. Since they're not good at it, they never see it from that perspective.

Anonymous said...

24. Collect unsold newspapers from local bodega for use as toilet paper
25. Mix water in milk
26. Wash bedsheets at local river
27. Sterilize tampons and pads for re-use next month
28. Collect and wash beer bottles from park to use as vases for new Ikebana hobby

Anonymous said...

29. Slash local pervy Hispanic's tire at night for hootin and hollerin' at me whenever I walk by
30. Write letter to local supermarket complaining about pervy Hispanic grocer
31. Jab pervy Hispanic grocer with stalks of celery while walking by
32. Make entire display of carrots fall so he has to pick them up
32. Pretend to be on cellphone, while walking by Hispanic neighborhood pervs and call them "fat fucks, ugly, gross" say ewwwww and sneer exaggeratedly while looking at their paunchy stomachs. In fact do a double take and laugh some more...

Anonymous said...

33. Scare troublesome locals and pesky kids from serene grassy knoll by by river where I lie on slow by telling them I saw snakes

Anonymous said...

Oh My God!! I laughed so hard reading these lists - it's so true! Thank God I am not the only one going insane! Not only am I coming up with more and creative ways to save bucks, but even people around me, the 'hood, are starting to become clear as the weirdos they are. When I am working I dismiss so many things on a daily basis but with nothing to do, their weirdom just sticks right in my face every single stressful day!! Sometimes only the thought of being raped in jail by a moustachioed biaaaatch keeps me from clubbing them to death.

Anonymous said...

My landlord gives me a strange look when she sees me home all the time in the the middle of the work day.

Anonymous said...

34. Steal toilet paper and paper towels from public restrooms at Needless Markup.
35. Send sister's costume jewelry to the Jewelry Exchange.
36. Find sugar daddy on Craigslist.
37. Find sugar mama on Craigslist.

Anonymous said...

Tomorrow, I am going to panhandle outside the entrance of my law school.

Anonymous said...

38. Buy massive bag of tortilla chips , salsa , two pints of Haagen Daz ice cream to consume at pity party with self while watching Bill Maher on HBO.

Anonymous said...

8:31 = good one!

Anonymous said...

8:52: I'll make us a pizza.

Anonymous said...

8:16. Do what I do. Don a suit jacket over regular clothes every time you walk out the apt. [Ipod, sneakers hidden in backpack]. Walk furiously, talk busily into the cellphone - say things like "my own business, fantastic, freelancing, your own boss, never imagined, telecommute, breaking barriers, stuffy office [sneer] let's get clients on a conference call, let's get the motherfuckers pay". You will impress not only your landlord but the super, the super's kids and the weasly guy doing construction on your building. Do the same at the supermarket/bank/Duane Reade where they are not used to seeing you during the day.

Anonymous said...

39. Call Time Warner, bitch about service and try and get a free movie channel.
40. Open 5th new bank account at Chase using the $100 coupon they send every month
41. Take empty water bottle to Bergdorf and fill up with nice soap in bathroom.
42. Write book exposing temp industry and ghetto characters
43. Write thoughtful analysis on Tom the Temp's blog and laugh hilariously at other funny posts.

Anonymous said...

27. Sterilize tampons and pads for re-use next month

Sterilize them in beer.

Anonymous said...

12. Sell neighbor's yapping mutt to local restaurant.

Korean. You forgot to say Korean.

Anonymous said...

26. Wash bedsheets at local river

Or live in a van down by the river.

Anonymous said...

27. Call up McDonald's and ask if they have any job openings to get spoiled nagging wife out of the house.

beerguzzlingtemp said...

44. Turn condoms inside out and use them again.

It is a waste to use them only once.

Anonymous said...

45. Conduct self-medical diagnosis by researching Internet and watching re-runs of House - upon receiving deadly mosquito/tick bites and having severe "flu-like" symptoms for three weeks and no health insurance.

Anonymous said...

46: Make new clothes from old drapes and bedsheets.

Anonymous said...

Fuck you very much, 6:47 P.M.

FUCK YOU

Anonymous said...

47. Buy sixpack, pop some popcorn, place in backpack. Go to large theatre chain, pay for one movie - see three. Spend entire day drunk and in air-conditioning!

Anonymous said...

48. buy cornmeal and bacon for cheap cornmeal fixin's.

Cook cheap cornmeal to eat while wife watches tv and bitches.

Anonymous said...

9:55: Silly rabbit. I didn't forget to say "Korean" - many people eat dog, not just the Koreans. It's not just for breakfast anymore!

Anonymous said...

49. Tell spoiled bitching spouse to take a daily helping of STFU since he/she so little experience with life that they take their disappointment out on you. Instead of bitching, they should be a true helpmate and steal toilet paper from public restrooms.

Anonymous said...

50. Buy pre-paid cell phone. Start making revenge calls in the middle of the night.

Lifer said...

Why so many cops and so few passengers on the subway today?

51. Get new bifocals for long day of redacting.

Anonymous said...

Unemployment for August 2009:

Good (?) news. If you believe the federal government's figures, U6 remained at 16.8 for August.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/
empsit.t12.htm

So we are but 3.2 percentage points shy of the Great Depression.

Anonymous said...

Sorry, I meant 16.8 for JULY.

Anonymous said...

TGIF!

A BIG FUCK You to the law schools, bar associations, temp agencies and big law!!!!!
Fuck You!

fuck you!
Fuck You!

Anonymous said...

52. Write letters to EVERYONE complaining about EVERYTHING - to the landlord, the management company, supermarket, agencies, firms, doctors, councilman, senator, Obama .. what the fuck, get your act together bitches!!

Anonymous said...

53. Piss in diet coke bottle from which partner of small firm I currently temp for drinks. He pays me $10/hour and then drinks MY diet coke.

Anonymous said...

11:46: revenge is best served cold. Instead of piss, which the asshole will undoubtedly smell or taste, why not collect snot from someboyd with a really bad cold and dump that into the diet coke? You'll be able to sit back and smile as the partner gets sick, sick, sick. hahahahahaha

Anonymous said...

Report from my list of things to do today.
1. Bambi is in the freezer.
2. Second crop of veggies is in the ground.
3. Shot repo man - don't think he'll be back.
4. Phone service and internet access restored.
5. Fan is out of the attic. Let loose with CO2 fire extinguisher into a bag - have dry ice but it melts quickly.
6. Canning is done. Blueberry crop doing well. Peppers turning red and tomatoes are prolific.
7. I've got to move to a place where the fish aren't redioactive.
8. Neighbor heard chainsaw when I tried to cut down his tree and came out blasting. I ran away screaming like a little girl. Have to rethink this one.

Think I'll go to Disney World now.

Even though tomorrow is Saturday, I intend to stay in focus and perform. Maybe somebody will notice and hire me.

Things to do tomorrow:
1. Finish doing taxes for 2002.
2. Gas up chainsaw and cut down dead hedges in front yard. Place in woodpile.
3. Kill a defenseless goose, hide same in freezer.
4. Move car to new hiding place just in case repo man sends a replacement
5. Clip coupons for mac & cheese
6. Tend the still before it blows up.
7. Send letter to Sallie Mae informing them that I'm dead.
8. Open a beer at 10 a.m.

Anonymous said...

12:13 Good job. Seems like you are on top of things.

Anonymous said...

54. Buy disguise and wear to local supermarkets after being banned from each one for screaming over extra $15-$20 cent charges.
[so embarrassed!]
55. Buy beer and drink a few BEFORE I enter these markets again. Or even venture out of home !!

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Anonymous said...

12:57 blows. 12:57 blows. 12:57 blows. 12:57 blows. 12:57 blows. 12:57 blows. 12:57 blows. 12:57 blows.

I'm bored now.

The Yuppie Attorney said...

Places such as firstlawjob.com or job help search firms are a scam. You get more from reading Kimm Walton's book in the library for free.
Granted you school's career services office is more directed to getting OCI for the top 10% of your class; they do have seminars on interviewing and will look at your resume for free. I try not to believe in luck, being at the right place at the right it, but I am being swayed.

Anonymous said...

56. Post pictures of Tiny Tim's thimble dong all over the Internet.

Anonymous said...

How about Integreon's $15 per hour gig NY C craigs list?

Great, things are really picking up.

Integreon is a big shitsourcer, based in India. They are bring us down shitty mumbai rates.

Anonymous said...

Does anyone know how to apply for extension of unemployment benefits after intitial six months runs out? Or will it automatically extend?
Thanks very much.

Anonymous said...

If you are in NY, it will automatically extend. When you reach the one year anniversary of your claim you have to reapply.

Anonymous said...

Thank you so much!

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Anonymous said...

I went to Touro. All I care is I am better than other people (law grads). It's all about comparing not absolutes. So I take the $15 Bloomberg gig. I am a Doctorate of Jurisprudence. I know a thing or two. Uh huh Uh huh Huh. My lovely little....

Anonymous said...

Hows Cravvie and Snufy?


It's prestigious to say Attorney at Law on your business card. I got lots of pootang from Nigeria. Free AIDs.

Anonymous said...

I think I was on a doc review with that PA. Gym club guy, or at least he seems like a long term
doc review type.
and oh yeah,
fuk the foreign llm's

Anonymous said...

where is that bitch faggot better coder?

'nuff said faggot.

The biggest joke are the people thatact like doc review is a real job. I'd love to beat there asses. Next doc review I get I am fucking some people up and gonna bitch slap that. Monkey staff attorney.

Fuk you

Jerroc said...

If I had a time machine I would go back and take David K. up on his offer to wrestle naked and let him pilot me in for a landing on his runway.

Anonymous said...

Hey everyone, ad on Craigslist confirms the legal field is now cleaning the shitter...
http://newyork.craigslist.org/
jsy/lgl/1309347118.html

any given Nigerian said...

Greetings and salutations ,

My collegeus I am Nigerian. I will come and take your job and then have my family come code as well and I won't work and be stupid except when I scam and I will not pay taxes and I will commit fraud and I will stink up kitchen.

Your honorable collegeus,
Niger Niger boibooken hahjiobo, llmmd, nmh, Ddds. , magistrate 2nd circuit first class , honors

Anonymous said...

The foreign LLMs are much qualified than entitled whites.

How dare whites think they have special right just because they are citizens of this country and Nigerians are nasty thieving leeches not citizens thereof?

Also Nigerians say souther and midwest states are no good.
So why don't they take their toilet paper degree and get the hell out of this country!

Hi ABA!
Good job NEW YORK BAR ASSOCIATION!

Anonymous said...

I am Nigerian.
I got full scholarship to LLM degree from America.

I have a RIGHT to a piece of the pie. Same as a citizen.

DocReviewRefugee said...

Lurk about trash receptacles of apt. buildings with many eldery people. There is usually one for big items, especially in the suburbs. Take furniture and anything useful and sell to Goodwill or furniture consignment shops.

Anonymous said...

2:29 in a pencil-necked chinless geek.

Anonymous said...

What kind of scam is this? (from DC Craigslist today)


ATTORNEY RECRUITER

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: 2009-08-07, 3:19PM EDT
Reply to: job-zg7dj-1311150834@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


WORK FROM HOME! Boutique legal recruiting firm with stellar reputation seeking a recruiter that is honest, motivated, professional, team oriented, and persistent. Must be confident enough to take rejection well! Law degree preferred. Must have great work ethic and perform consistently. Flexible hours. Great opportunity for stay at home mom with advanced degree.


Compensation: Draw toward Commission
Telecommuting is ok.
This is a part-time job.
Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
Please, no phone calls about this job!
Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.

Anonymous said...

5:09 PM is a sad, shapeless, lonely middleaged, unemployed temp doc reviewer PATHETIC LOSER!5:09 PM is a sad, shapeless, lonely middleaged, unemployed temp doc reviewer PATHETIC LOSER!5:09 PM is a sad, shapeless, lonely middleaged, unemployed temp doc reviewer PATHETIC LOSER!5:09 PM is a sad, shapeless, lonely middleaged, unemployed temp doc reviewer PATHETIC LOSER!5:09 PM is a sad, shapeless, lonely middleaged, unemployed temp doc reviewer PATHETIC LOSER!

Anonymous said...

Florida’s Akerman Senterfitt, which in July announced a 10% cut in associate salaries, has laid off five associates.

Two of the five let go are first-years.

Akerman Senterfitt was founded in 1920, and has grown to become one of the largest law firms in the United States. In 2008, the National Law Journal ranked the firm as 92nd largest in the US by number of attorneys, and the second-largest Florida-based firm.

The firm employs 500 lawyers across offices in Los Angeles, Denver, Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, Tampa, Tallahassee, West Palm Beach, New York City, Washington DC; Tyson’s Corner, Virginia; and Madison, Wisconsin.

Anonymous said...

Alex is fucking a per, and at elast three temps with that tiny ding dong while his wife and kids are in Croatia.......WHAT A FUCKING LOSER PIG HE IS OMG, and my friend told me today that he even hit on her, but at least she had enough self esteem not to succumb to his loderDUMB

Anonymous said...

that faggot team leader from labaton with his pierced tongue - is a nosey bitch

Anonymous said...

his breathe stinks

Anonymous said...

5:12, did it really specify "great opportunity for stay at home mom"? You'd think a recruiter would have better sense than that.

Anonymous said...

Bad credit? Forget about getting a job:
It is generally legal to run credit checks on job applicants, but some states have restrictions. In Washington, which has perhaps the most stringent requirement, a candidate’s credit history must be substantially related to the job under a law that took effect in 2007.

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Read All Comments (251) »Last month, lawmakers in Hawaii approved a measure that generally allows an employer to review a credit history only after making an offer and requires the credit check to be “directly related” to job qualifications.

In California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a similar law. (New York law requires a background check’s findings to be related to the job, but it addresses criminal records and does not mention credit checks.)

Lawmakers in Michigan and Ohio have proposed barring employers from using credit history in making employment decisions.

“In my opinion, it’s discrimination,” said Representative Jon Switalski, the Democrat who proposed legislation in Michigan. “If you miss a few payments or you have medical debt, your skills as a pipefitter or an electrician don’t diminish.”

Courts have not been sympathetic to claims that discrimination is being cloaked in credit checks, said Angela Onwuachi-Willig, a law professor at the University of Iowa. “At what point does the fact that someone lives in a particular neighborhood or someone has a bad credit score become a way of eliminating people for illegal grounds?” she asked rhetorically. “Basically, the courts don’t protect against proxy discrimination.”

Stuart J. Ishimaru, the acting chairman of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said the commission would probably issue guidance on the proper use of credit checks. Such guidance, though nonbinding, could offer some reassurance against lawsuits to employers who comply.

“It’s something that intrigues us and worries us,” Mr. Ishimaru said, adding that some job-related tests had led to discrimination claims in the past. “The question is, why do you use it? How is this a good screening device?”

Federal law requires employers to get the consent of job applicants before running credit checks, said Pamela Q. Devata, a lawyer in the Chicago office of Seyfarth Shaw.

And if they are considering denying someone a job based on a check, she said, “they have to notify the applicant.” That is intended to give someone a chance to explain circumstances or spot erroneous information.

When the job market improves and fewer people are fighting for slots, credit histories may become less important, said Michael C. Lazarchick, a career counselor in Pleasantville, N.J. “But these are lean and mean times.”

Anonymous said...

Michael C. Lazarchick

laserchick

His cock is a laser for temp honeypot.

Anonymous said...

Mr. GayLLARD and his follies are a major embarssassment to S&C. He is a real tool without the REAL tool. I know someone who knows Nina his poor wife, and I think she should know abou this many affairs. BTW, she is the one with the money so she should just leave his dickless loser ass. Tina Michele and Nicole are only three of many. Wise up you insecure losers. He is just using you for his narcissistic adulation.

Anonymous said...

Hoooo-eeeey! What a party we had last night over at Cravvie!! Lil' Kim got her freak on with Snuffy and Skeeter, we were jumpin' to the Off Da Hook sounds of DJ Ruffles, and the USVI connect was ALL GOOD!!!! Keepin' it real in da hood!! Power to da people, Baby!!

Anonymous said...

This GayLard sounds like a real ass. Tiny Tim operates the same way at S&C. He also has a tiny dong - a mere thimble - you need the Hubble telescope to see it. He also hits on and dates several temps because he is too much of a sad middle-aged loser to go out and date properly. To temps toilet law school "staff attorney" seem like God - obvious hallucination result of being cloistered in radiation basement for 80 hours a week. Because he has nothing to offer, Tiny sobs on about his ex-wife, his family, his peers, everyone but himself. You just want to shoot this loser out of misery. Idiot temps who have succumbed to his sob stories have done so at their own peril - they go insane!! This fella is TROUBLE. He will sniff anything with a vagina-temp, goat, chicken, melon.

Anonymous said...

57: Perform surgery on bum knee with boiled kitchen knives and distilled water.

Anonymous said...

5:57 PM

Either has a tick or is an unimaginative idiot who can only copy and paste his bullshit over and over...sadness

Anonymous said...

This Sullivan & Cromwell sounds like a fucking disaster. How can they let scumbags like Alex Gallard and the others run the boiler room?

beerguzzlingtemp said...

What are fuckin' kidding me? $15 -18 an hour?

Document review experience preferred?



Paralegals, Students or JD's (Midtown Manhattan)

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All resumes and applications are held in strict confidence.

Anonymous said...

S&C has become loserville at the staff level. At associate and above it is ruthless but smart and hard-working.

It is truly a shock to see the kind of people they hire as staff attorneys and temp to perm paras. Loser, ghetto etc. The standards have gone down largely because of the managment headed by Fig the Pig and Gary the loser, both who are awed by really qualified people - don't have the confidence to manage them and don't like to hire them- what do these losers really know? Both came on as temps, from some thatched hut in the Caribbean. They are happy with ass kissing Anus, Gaylard, Big Mamma etc. and that knife wielding slasher bitch who made it to associate. The team would have been different under smarter more confident management. Fig acts "smart" but he acts like a low-level bureaucrat acts "smart" - not like a really smart person acts smart - which is not acting at all.

beerguzzlingtemp said...

Here is a good idea...work for this foreign bastard for nothing !!!



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Anonymous said...

It is truly a shock to see the kind of people they hire as staff attorneys and temp to perm paras. Loser, ghetto etc"

Sorry Babu, but they wouldn't hire off the boat scum like you. Further, these people have JDs and you, just some crummy Indian associates degree.

Even the worst, most disgusting JD at an American shitlaw firm is better than you.

Get a life, you Indian parasite.

Anonymous said...

what is also outrageous is that a douche as young as john b. has been hired as a team leader at labaton a which is a perm positition and he flaunts his tongue piercing -- why is this acceptable at a firm to sport a tongue pierceing...where are the partners in charge

Anonymous said...

10:32 - yup it did.

Anonymous said...

58. File weekly unemployment claim
59. Drink moonshine.

Anonymous said...

Sleazy outsourcer Rio Tinto is in trouble again. Seems the Chinese govt is on these corrupt morons. Talk about management running a company into the ground! From today's NYT,

"China Accuses Rio Tinto of Long-Term Conspiracy

By DAVID BARBOZA
Published: August 9, 2009
SHANGHAI — China said Sunday that it had evidence showing that for at least six years, employees working for the British-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto had engaged in commercial espionage, costing the country about $120 billion.

The sensational allegation was published on a Web site affiliated with China’s State Secrets Bureau, which detained four Rio Tinto employees, including an Australian citizen, in Shanghai last month on suspicions of espionage and stealing state secrets from the country’s huge, government-controlled steel industry. The comments marked the first time that China had suggested that the case involved a long-running conspiracy.

The case has strained China’s relations with Australia and rocked China’s steel industry, which purchases billions of dollars’ worth of iron ore every year from Rio Tinto and other huge mining companies.

The detentions have also thrown China’s annual negotiations with the world’s biggest iron ore producers into chaos at a time when demand for iron ore and steel is soaring in China because of an economic recovery. Iron ore is a key ingredient in steel.

Multinational corporations operating in China have also grown concerned because there could be serious risks for executives gathering information or doing business with state-owned Chinese companies.

Rio Tinto officials could not be reached Sunday for comment. But the company has strongly denied any wrongdoing in the case. The British-Australian company BHP Billiton, the world’s biggest mining company and also a major supplier of iron ore, declined to comment.

The new allegations, published by the National Administration for the Protection of State Secrets in China, named only Rio Tinto but suggested that all foreign iron ore suppliers had benefited from fraud committed by Rio Tinto employees.

The major iron ore producers generally follow the same benchmark price set during annual negotiations. The article offered very few details but said evidence China had found on Rio Tinto computers showed that the company had gathered extensive intelligence on China’s steel industry and that the information it acquired had given the company an edge in setting annual benchmark prices for iron ore over the past six years.

“The computer data Rio Tinto staff held showed that they have gained extensive, detailed inside information on the steel industry,” the article said, “and were definitely spying on China’s economic interests and security.”

The price of iron ore has skyrocketed in China during that period; it peaked in 2008 at more than $200 a ton. But analysts have generally attributed the price increase to soaring demand from China’s fast-growing steel industry, which is now the world’s largest.

China, however, contends that the price was manipulated, costing the government-controlled steel industry an additional $120 billion.

In earlier statements, China had accused Rio Tinto employees of stealing confidential information by bribing Chinese steel mill executives. Australian officials said recently that the four Rio employees had been detained largely because of their role in this year’s iron ore negotiations.

Legal scholars have expressed surprise that China detained the four Rio Tinto employees on state secrets suspicions rather than for commercial spying. Under Chinese law, violating state secrets is much more serious and very difficult to defend against, partly because much of the evidence is not made public.

Anonymous said...

Maybe they can outsource their Chinese legal defense to India, ROFLMAO.

Anonymous said...

12:16, Ha, ha...funny. How do you even think I am Indian. I am Italian American. JD from Michigan you fucking idiot!!! Probably better than your toilet New York Law School degree. Just because someone criticizes the temp systemt does not mean they LPO Indian you fucking ASSHOLE. People with substantive American JDS can also crticize the temp system -- as all you sorry lifer temps know it is a pretty bad system and the better your degree the harder it is to take MOTHERFUCKER. So shove those curry Indians and your own self-hating white power troll habits up your smelly ASS.

Anonymous said...

I had an interview on Friday with an ugly recruiter with a moustache and fat calves. First she tells me she wants me to fill out 20 forms at home, print them and bring them in when I come to see her. Then three copies of my resume. Bitch what are you going to do? Stroke my dick? I am unemployed, spending $15-20 at Kinkos everytime I have an interview and nothing even comes of it!!! What the fuck are you doing? You have a job, a company and a printer. Give me the fucking forms and I'll fill them out the old fashioned way. Fuck this shit. I am tired of these ugly broads and this ugly system. Working at Home Depot is looking better and better.

Anonymous said...

The vast majority of recruiters are parasitic scum. There are a few good ones out there, but any monkey with a phone can be a recruiter.

Now I just ignore them. Unless you are a current/former biglaw associate/partner, engaging a recruiter will be a waste of time.

Anonymous said...

This week in law firm layoffs:

Akerman Senterfitt: 5 lawyers

USC Gould School of Law: undisclosed

Fulbright & Jaworski: 33 staff

Mintz Levin: 15 lawyers, undisclosed staff

HBJ Gately Wareing: 2 lawyers

Total: 22 lawyers, 33 staff

Anonymous said...

2:16

Don't feel too bad. Next Thursday I have an interview with a recruiter who looks like the love child of Rosie O'Donnell and Shemp from the Three Stooges. She also inists on speaking in faux-pirate dialect, with a lot of "Arrrrghhs" and "Mateys"... and her left hand is a hook.

Her names is Bernice. Watch out for her. She insists that if she gives you an assignment, you take her out on a date with some of the money from your first paycheck... or you don't get a second.

Anonymous said...

Alex GayLLard is porking a perm in the edc dept at S&C as well as a bunch of pathetic butta temps.....gee wizz what a small dong can do :)

Anonymous said...

who is tiny tim?

Anonymous said...

P-Anus is a fucking tart, hense, BORAT

Anonymous said...

It's impossible to talk to these aspiring lawyers and law school applicants. They always think "We know better." "Just because you are a failure doesn't mean I will be". "I am getting the degree because it's a good thing to have when you are doing something else." "I don't plan to do corporate I am going pro bono anyway." (by third year no one is) "It's prestigious." "I have a liberal arts degree and need to differentiate myself." (question: why didn't you get a B.A. in business or computer science? i.e. piling one mistake onto another?

Anonymous said...

Mr Alex CheatAllard is a real tool without a REAL TOOl. His dong is smaller than a childs thumb. What are these tramps thinking?

Who is Tiny and P-ANUS?

Anonymous said...

Has anyone worked with Big Mamma lately? Has she been banned fro supervising temps since she eats everyones food? She is one scary ugly biaaatch. Clovester is another megaDWEEB. He climbs so far up Gaylards @ss. It is so sickening to watch a middle aged creepy man be so submissive to that loser clown boy who cheats on his wife left and right with insecure butta-temps!

Anonymous said...

Solve your unemployment problems immediately by calling Bea Kauffman at Bon Temps, 212-732-3921. She has tons of work for qualified paralegals and lawyers.

Anonymous said...

5:57 is a strong, handsome, charming, masculine, muscular, intelligent, athletic, sharp dressing, chinless, pencil-necked geek. 5:57 is a strong, handsome, charming, masculine, muscular, intelligent, athletic, sharp dressing, chinless, pencil-necked geek. 5:57 is a strong, handsome, charming, masculine, muscular, intelligent, athletic, sharp dressing, chinless, pencil-necked geek.
Okay? Can we put it to bed now and forget about this repetitive boring shit?

Anonymous said...

Now I know the purpose of this blog - to engage in "gallows humor." It's really very good therapy when one is in a bad situation, like being let go in two mass layoffs as I was. I recall one guy doing spreadsheets showing how we could feed our families for $500 a year, by drinking only water and eating only macaroni and cheese.

Anonymous said...

(question: why didn't you get a B.A. in business or computer science? i.e. piling one mistake onto another?
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Yeah, a B.A. in Business Administration: great way to distinguish yourself from the 40% of all college graduates with a B.A./B.S. in Business Administration. And please--let's not even start with the IT/coding outsourcing plague. It makes LPOs look like a walk in the park

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