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What r/biglaw is talking about this week

r/biglaw has 125,065 members and 25 posts in the last 24 hours, with about 8.5 comments an hour right now. From the Redlisten index, refreshed daily.

125,065members
25posts in the last 24 hours, newest 23 min ago
8.5comments an hour right now, newest 5 min ago
1,358points on the top thread this week

Words coming up in r/biglaw this week

firms21weil19firm16partners11work11associate9every9partner9trump8job7litigation7lateral7

Top threads this week

  1. Firmwide email this morning

    Pronouns back in email signature by noon, office-specific land acknowledgement drafts due by COB. Mandatory retreat in January for the Houston office’s rendition of The Vagina Monologues.

    1,358 points45 comments3 d ago
  2. Halloween Party Ready
    1,253 points18 comments7 d ago
  3. You don’t hate partners enough

    Seeing many requests for help on LinkedIn from law students that accepted summer positions or offers to return to Weil. It genuinely makes me furious. These students believed they had everything...

    695 points95 comments4 d ago
  4. Fuck yeah

    For those waking up to the results.

    680 points58 comments3 d ago
  5. Incoming Judiciary Chair Raskin: Firms who made deals will receive congressional subpoenas.

    Congressional investigations practice groups likely to have a much busier 2027 than 2025 and 2026.

    595 points96 comments2 d ago
  6. has anyone noticed that we've slipped in the law reddit rankings from #8 to #9? let's do better, folks. this is a V5 sub
    402 points17 comments2 d ago
  7. Chatting with partners in the hall is a mistake

    It reminds them you exist and makes them think of you that day when they have some horrible task they don’t want to do. This has happened to me twice this week

    401 points20 comments2 d ago
  8. Had a kid and now submitting hours is a highlight of my day

    Had a kid this past year and it’s insane how much it has shifted my perspective on biglaw. Before I was at my firm sort of begrudgingly and constantly trying to get away with the bare minimum to...

    377 points106 comments4 d ago
  9. Associate Fired By Sidley Elected to Congress

    Good for her. She’ll certainly have a more impactful life than all the bloodthirsty individuals who were out to attack her in here back when it happened.

    357 points93 comments22 h ago
  10. Do K&E associates just not know how to do anything?

    Currently on a deal opposite K&E’s lev fin team and they just don’t seem to understand how any deal docs work or should be drafted. It seems they just delete anything they don’t understand and...

    327 points101 comments3 d ago

Newest posts

  1. Dealing with incredibly shitty Senior/soon-to-be-Partner - suggestions welcome
    3 points3 comments23 min ago
  2. How many hours a week for DC litigation groups?
    1 points4 comments36 min ago
  3. NEP v Counsel Salary
    2 points11 comments54 min ago
  4. Quitting Etiquette
    8 points4 comments1 h ago
  5. Do any actual in house people post here?
    9 points16 comments8 h ago
  6. Am I the only one getting tired of all these LinkedIn posts about attorneys at Weil? Tens of thousands of Americans lose their jobs every day, many earning nowhere near even a third of what a first-year associate at this firm makes.
    168 points67 comments11 h ago
  7. Private Equity Inevitable…??
    0 points22 comments11 h ago
  8. Stories of litiganting against the pro se litigant?
    0 points2 comments12 h ago
  9. Tax vs. Finance: all else equal, are the lifestyles really that different?
    9 points6 comments12 h ago
  10. Is the job stressful because the work is difficult, or because people are bad at their jobs? So much waiting, so much correcting, so much placating, so much following-up.
    12 points12 comments13 h ago
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