Law

Anyone at the point of crying and physical anxiety going into work? (Working with terrible people). Job searching but how do I hold on long enough to find something else? Even making time applying and...

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...

Do law firms monitor what you’re doing on your work laptop? For example, if I update my resume on my work laptop will they know?

So I found a new job and tomorrow I am going to put in my two weeks’ notice. I am nervous how everyone will react because I have given no clues that I was looking. My boss always asks me if I am happy...

I lost my spark. Any tips on how to get it back? My last job was toxic. After 4 year I quit and they gave me 3 month severance pay to look for a new job. (they were bullying me and didn’t want me to ...

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

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

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...

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?

Has anyone quit a job after around six months?

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...

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...

My client is gift-giving me things that are definitely over the ethical limit. It started with a nice bottle of wine, but today a high-end designer watch showed up as a thank you for a successful moti...

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...

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...

Settle it once and for all: In the US, is there any difference between an attorney and a lawyer? Are people who graduate law school (without passing the bar) considered lawyers?

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...