Do you have Memorial Day off?
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Why do we pay paralegals so little? A senior associate completely miscalculated a statutory deadline, and our lead paralegal caught it at 4:30 PM on the final day, staying late on a Friday to fix the caption and get it over the line. If she hadn't been paying attention, the firm would be facing a massive malpractice suit, yet she makes less than the associate who didn't even know what month it was.
Lateral/Conflicts question— my spouse is lateraling to a new firm. This is the first time either one of us has lateraled as we’ve been at our firms since law school so dumb question. He’s been coordinating everything from his personal computer so far. For purposes of filling out the conflicts questionnaire, he’s worried that sending the filled out form containing client data over his personal computer might constitute mishandling of client info for ethical purposes— more in comments
I’m tired of being the PDF Whisperer for a partner who makes 10x my salary. I spent 20 minutes today explaining that you can't search a scanned image of a document unless you OCR it first. If you can’t navigate a basic folder structure, should you really be running a multi-million dollar practice? How do you stop being office IT just because of your age?
Will anyone expect me to work? No. Is my life going to be miserable if I miss an entire day of billable work? Yes. So, I'll be working.
Sorry aa1 I didn’t think of that…my job is slow right now and I’m stressed on hours but have nothing to do (part time so no billable, just not getting paid much since I’m hourly)
My office is “closed” and admin will be off, so kinda, but I need to meet my hours somehow so I’ll be working.
Yes and my boss told my team to basically phone it in today and just pay attention to email.
thats not vacation. all my devices are off
Our office is “closed” and a lot of people are traveling so suspect my emails will be quiet but I’ll probably sneak in a couple hours to catch up on stuff. In biglaw if that matters.
I’m in a mid sized law firm. Law firm is open 24/7, and also has three days in per week policy. So I assume I can work from home on that day ?
Why would you work on a major holiday?
Yes. Got all my work done before and just said I’m gonna be out today and Monday
Yes but I’m big law so nobody cares
Yes and I’m in big law and I’m taking it off because I’m leaving soon and don’t care.
Yes...but only because I was laid off. My last day is today.
Thank you. It sucks but there's nothing I can do about it.
Absolutely
Yep, closed and no emails reviewed.