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04/21/2020 14:27

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Anonymous wrote:Yea autoadmit is 180 and I still read and post there every day. There are your typical loser in-house rejects like TMF but also a great personal injury lawyer who has started a law firm in LA and after just 5 years makes 5 million per year (not kidding). His name is calishitlawguru and he is 180 and has helped many other posters transition to personal injury work where a lot of money is.

Autoadmit is generally much smarter than this board due in large part to its unmoderated policy.

TMF?

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04/21/2020 14:28

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Anonymous wrote:lol, yes. I remember being totally horrified how mean people were there when I posted my stats. Well guess what guys, I got into that Ivy and made law review despite my apparently unimpressive LSAT. so there!

What was your LSAT? Are you a minority? The URM bump is HUGE.

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04/21/2020 15:01

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Anonymous wrote:Yea autoadmit is 180 and I still read and post there every day. There are your typical loser in-house rejects like TMF but also a great personal injury lawyer who has started a law firm in LA and after just 5 years makes 5 million per year (not kidding). His name is calishitlawguru and he is 180 and has helped many other posters transition to personal injury work where a lot of money is.

Autoadmit is generally much smarter than this board due in large part to its unmoderated policy.

TMF?

"the meanest fish." he went to some ttt and boasted about how he was going to make it in biglaw, never did, has wound up in house making around 200k (he counts free Keurig pods toward his salary though). has a house by the train tracks in some awful suburb of NYC.

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04/21/2020 15:22

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Anonymous wrote:To the many lawyers on the board - did any of you read/post on Autoadmit in the early-mid aughts? It seems to me like there might be some overlap.

Yes. There are times I think half of DCUM are old AA trolls.

Yes, it all makes sense now.

+1

Lol, yes. This really takes me back down memory lane. I haven’t thought about Autoadmit (or the Above the Law comment section) in years.

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04/21/2020 15:49

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Anonymous wrote:To the many lawyers on the board - did any of you read/post on Autoadmit in the early-mid aughts? It seems to me like there might be some overlap.

Yes. There are times I think half of DCUM are old AA trolls.

Yes, it all makes sense now.

+1

Lol, yes. This really takes me back down memory lane. I haven’t thought about Autoadmit (or the Above the Law comment section) in years.

(NOWIG)

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04/21/2020 17:10

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Anonymous wrote:Yea autoadmit is 180 and I still read and post there every day. There are your typical loser in-house rejects like TMF but also a great personal injury lawyer who has started a law firm in LA and after just 5 years makes 5 million per year (not kidding). His name is calishitlawguru and he is 180 and has helped many other posters transition to personal injury work where a lot of money is.

Autoadmit is generally much smarter than this board due in large part to its unmoderated policy.

TMF?

"the meanest fish." he went to some ttt and boasted about how he was going to make it in biglaw, never did, has wound up in house making around 200k (he counts free Keurig pods toward his salary though). has a house by the train tracks in some awful suburb of NYC.

Did this guy even ever work in biglaw?

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04/21/2020 20:43

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yea autoadmit is 180 and I still read and post there every day. There are your typical loser in-house rejects like TMF but also a great personal injury lawyer who has started a law firm in LA and after just 5 years makes 5 million per year (not kidding). His name is calishitlawguru and he is 180 and has helped many other posters transition to personal injury work where a lot of money is.

Autoadmit is generally much smarter than this board due in large part to its unmoderated policy.

TMF?

"the meanest fish." he went to some ttt and boasted about how he was going to make it in biglaw, never did, has wound up in house making around 200k (he counts free Keurig pods toward his salary though). has a house by the train tracks in some awful suburb of NYC.

Did this guy even ever work in biglaw?

Biglaw is presTTTigous unless you’re at Wachtell or Kirkland. Everyone else went in house at FAANG or got an MBA and went to Blackrock or Apollo. Sounds like some of you could have used xoxo the last decade or so.

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04/21/2020 23:23

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yea autoadmit is 180 and I still read and post there every day. There are your typical loser in-house rejects like TMF but also a great personal injury lawyer who has started a law firm in LA and after just 5 years makes 5 million per year (not kidding). His name is calishitlawguru and he is 180 and has helped many other posters transition to personal injury work where a lot of money is.

Autoadmit is generally much smarter than this board due in large part to its unmoderated policy.

TMF?

"the meanest fish." he went to some ttt and boasted about how he was going to make it in biglaw, never did, has wound up in house making around 200k (he counts free Keurig pods toward his salary though). has a house by the train tracks in some awful suburb of NYC.

Did this guy even ever work in biglaw?

for ten months before being shitcanned during ITE. despite graduating in 2009 he and his wife (also a lawyer) have only saved $600,000 - if you include his bmw.

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04/22/2020 02:50

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Anonymous wrote:To the many lawyers on the board - did any of you read/post on Autoadmit in the early-mid aughts? It seems to me like there might be some overlap.

Yes. There are times I think half of DCUM are old AA trolls.

Yes, it all makes sense now.

+1 Many of the former GA, AA and TLS posters are here because <drum roll please> . . . they're now moms and dads still living in the DC area. There's a lot of big law discussion here because many posters haven't mentally moved on from their "glory days" - i.e. I could have been a big law equity rainmaker, but I went in house for the "lifestyle". Kinda like former high school football players saying that they could have gone pro if they hadn't blow out their knee.

This, plus a lot of the trolling here uses the same tired vernacular from the old law school websites.

And many of us who are lawyers have put big law behind us years ago. We can't go back and get a do-over to try and make partner (and why would we?). If you're in big law as an associate, "enjoy" it while it lasts (and it won't - you're not special). If you're a big law partner, focus on your business (notice, I didn't say "job") - you don't need to come here and brag about how much you make (we already know).

Doesn’t it has to last for *some* associates, though? I mean, people are special and do make partner...

Not in today's economy it won't. The "some associates" you noted are 1-out-of-50-or-100. With those odds, it's very unwise to think you're the special one. To hearken back to my big law days, the people who made partner fell into the following categories: (i) those who have the right corporate connections (i.e. mom/dad/uncle/aunt, etc... the CEO of a major company, on lots of boards, etc...), (ii) those who had the right political connections (i.e. name the political family), (iii) the absolute best of the best lawyers (i.e. former Supreme Court clerks), (iv) the very rare associate who has the charm to bring in business, or has friends who founded profitable tech companies, and (v) those associates who are indispensable to a rainmaker. Everyone else gets scraps.