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@_wej01 Nice story that never happened.

I just saw a post where a woman said, I submitted an application for a job WAAAAAAY out of my league. Of course they rejected my application due to insufficient experience. So i followed up with a well articulated email expressing my interest in the company and requesting insight on how to grow into the position... the recruiter set up a meeting, which led to a job offer. I just wanted you guys to know that you really have to put yourself out there and establish connections. You will deadass miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

@Namurarf @DeacsAtDiolis @LSU Ohio State's acceptance rate over the past few years has hovered around 55%.

@DeacsAtDiolis @LSU So does Ohio State, U of Indiana and most other state schools. Fun fact: some students don’t consider acceptance rate when they select where they spend 4 years of their lives. Legacy, culture, location, major, scholarships are all factors.

CLASS OF 2030! We are seaux excited to meet you!

@lawyer_humor Words do have meaning. Thus, quite odd your grammar is so poor to have not used quotations around 'limited access' when discussing it as a myth.

Do you read your team's automated OOO replies? You absolutely should. A junior set his to say he was "traveling with limited access to email." Limited access is a myth we tell our families. I emailed him a link to purchase an international data roaming plan. I cc'd the managing partner. Then I sent him a 300-page lease agreement to proofread by Monday. He replied 3 hours later from a tarmac in Lisbon. He claimed the Wi-Fi on the plane was broken. I asked him if his personal hotspot was also on vacation. He found a way to send me the redlines. He never used the word "limited" in an auto-reply again. Words have meaning in this profession. Never draft a boundary you can't defend.

@riteekakharel @OliLondonTV They are sponsored; they cannot afford it either.

@OliLondonTV If they are financially good enough what’s the issue? These days people got problem with women for doing anything. Just cause y’all can’t afford or don’t spend such money on food/experiences doesn’t mean everyone should do same. Let them enjoy.

Influencers brag about ‘fine dining’ at Coachella eating Nobu while drinking out of plastic cups and eating off cardboard plates. The dining experience costs $350+ per person.

@tw_politics @rawsalerts What evidence did you assess to understand this was political violence rather than a random attack?

@rawsalerts Political violence is wrong and has to stop. I don’t agree with Sneako on a lot, but we cannot normalize harming others simply bc they disagree with us. It’s disgusting

🚨#BREAKING: Watch as Kick streamer Sneako is attacked and punched extremely hard in the face after telling his chat “you deserve to be publicly executed,” when a possible stream sniper or a random man on a busy New York City street confronts him, sparking a sudden and chaotic altercation caught on camera.

@FabianSani8 Good thing you aren't selling passable grammar.

Lawyers might be the best salespeople you've never thought about. Every single day, we're selling. In the courtroom, we're selling a narrative to a judge, making them believe our version of events is the truth worth ruling on. In the boardroom, we're selling a client on the best path forward not always a perfect option, but the smartest choice within a range of imperfect ones. In negotiations, we're selling the other side on why settling makes more sense than fighting. That's the job. Persuasion, framing, and the ability to make someone feel confident in a decision even when every option on the table has a cost. Sales reps close deals. Lawyers do it too we just call it counsel. If you've ever been in a courtroom, you know: the best lawyer isn't always the one who knows the most law. It's the one who tells the most compelling story.

@helloparalegal Thanks for the AI slop!

A lawyer named Sarah filed a motion to disqualify a federal judge. Her client was a small energy company being sued by a Fortune 500 corporation. She was outgunned. Opposing counsel had 12 attorneys. She had herself and a paralegal. Everyone told her she'd lose. But Sarah did something no one else in that courtroom did. She spent 10 seconds checking the judge's financial disclosures. The judge owned $850,000 in stock in the Fortune 500 company suing her client. $850,000. Exposed in a public database that any lawyer could access. But no one ever checks. Sarah filed a recusal motion under 28 U.S.C. § 455. The judge stepped down. A new judge was assigned. Sarah won the case. Not because she was the best writer in the room. Not because she had the biggest team. Because she knew something about the judge that 99% of lawyers never bother to look up. Here's what bothers me: This information is public. It's been sitting in a free nonprofit database for years. But only BigLaw firms paying $2,000/month for Lex Machina ever use it. Solo attorneys. Small firms. Legal aid lawyers. They walk into courtrooms blind. Every single day. Against opponents who can see everything. I built a tool that does what Sarah did - in 10 seconds. For free. Any federal judge. Career history. Opinions. Financial conflicts. Auto-flagged. Reply "JUDGE" and I'll send you the link.

@RomanPuglise @TheMattViera A traditional nurse is an associate's. An APRN is BSN+expensive master's+ additional training.

@TheMattViera CRNA's make a killing! Yes - a little more schooling than the traditional nurse but not as much as the doctor route. Have a client who lives one of the better life's I know and is a CRNA

My friend works in a hospital, makes $300,000+, and never went to medical school. She’s a nurse anesthetist who recently moved to a low cost-of-living area, only works 40 hours per week, and invests ~40% of her income. I'd say she’s living her best life. Do you agree?

@MeganNyvold @NoCapCapitalLLC Not with the $400,000 debt to get there.

@NoCapCapitalLLC Dentist

I’m in the market for a job that pays IB comp while giving me the flexibility to travel and play golf at the best courses in America year round. Any ideas?

@timmyoceans @harryjsisson Jesus took no political positions- let that sink in.

All of the MAGA Christians are VERY quiet tonight after Trump posted an AI image of himself as Jesus Christ. Nobody wants to come out and condemn that???

@WifeFinance And both would be readjusted downward if he lost his job or worked at a job with a lesser salary.

Spoke to a middle class divorced man in his 30’s who tells people he’s from NYC, but really lives in Jersey City: He has: - $325,000: Home equity - $250,000: 401k’s / IRAs - $4,105,000: Brokerage - $124,000: Cash On paper he’s "rich" & yet he can’t afford to quit his high-stress finance job because he owes $55,000 a month in alimony and child support. That man is my ex husband. …Millions of people are in this silent trap.

@SteelToeScribe N=1 is not sufficient evidence.

Here’s the 5D chess of what she did: GTown places 50-60% of its grads into big law. After 1-2 years para’ing, if she’s good, she’ll resume her studies & nearly ensure a summer offer at that firm. If she’s bad, she’ll ick out on law & pivot on law school. Here’s the wrinkle the thumb tsunami is missing - she can parlay that para experience into a more elite summer gig. My first para was stellar, then she left for law school. One of our partners went to Cravath. Para girl interviewed there on his blessing and got it. Her grades were a lil above average at a top ish law school (BL worthy, not CSM). Yet she had top market professional experience that her law review buddies didn’t. It was a safe bet hiring her. But she also bet on herself. Level up! 🍄

@marcorandazza @mr_eee_esq And some people that can properly punctuate sentences and know that this platform is now called 'X.'

@mr_eee_esq Are you actually retarded because if you are, I don’t wanna make fun of a retard. Do you think offers are all fungible? there are some fucking stupid people on Twitter.

I'd way rather hire an associate with a year of paralegal experience. And it ain't like Georgetown teaches you jack shit. She should work there for a year, impress the fuck out of some partner in a group she wants to work in, then tell that partner "I'm gonna go to law school now, and I want a summer associate position here when I am a 1L and a 2L"

@theblockprof You're a professor who doesn't proofread your own tweets?

@FICMBondTrader Yes, and Bear Stearns was one of the first to collapse during the GFC due to hubris, incompetence, and poor risk management. So much for being 'hungry.'

Fun fact - the guy in the chair nickname is "the piranha" He worked at bear sterns and my MD worked under him He would purposely hire ivy kids just to fire them day one (BS never hired Ivy cuz they don’t work as hard)

@BarExamTutor what's the historical average?

*Bar Exam Results: Arizona: July '26 Pass Percentage: 53% July '25 Pass Percentage: 51% # of examinees: 228 Pennsylvania: July '26 Pass Percentage: 46% July '25 Pass Percentage: 38% # of examinees: 412

@paigethe1st @wolverines788 @HannahDCox Thanks for the word salad with no evidence.

@Larsinspace1977 @wolverines788 @HannahDCox You’re such a silly creature if the USA wanted to terrorize civilians by bombing civilians, those are much easier targets than military. You don’t really need to aim very well. You do it with cheap bombs from high elevation. 2000 lbs dumb bombs don’t discriminate they just kill

Until evangelical pastors are as equally outraged by dead school children in Iran as they are by 6 week abortions they will remain a deeply unserious religion and one that deserves the deflection rates it’s seeing.

@levie This is just poor, sub-standard analysis. There may, in fact, be more lawyers- but what will the median wage be? Furthermore, what will the distribution of wages look like? Hard to believe you are in any position of executive power.

We will likely have more lawyers in the future than today, because: 1) AI will cause so many more people to ask legal questions which will encourage them to need to verify or execute through an actual lawyer. 2) AI will cause an explosion of more and more exotic legal terms that lawyers will be spending even more time reviewing redlines or new cases around. 3) All the new areas of law that now are emerging around the use of AI itself in every single industry. AI introduces an explosion of IP, privacy, and regulatory compliance challenges across all verticals. This has historical precedent as well. Between the creation of the PC and the internet (both technologies that made the legal profession far more efficient), the ABA pegs active attorneys having gone from roughly 400,000 in 1975 to roughly 1,375,000 in 2025. When we make professions more efficient and automated, often demand for them goes up not down.

@ClementLeeMD Should veterinarians be people?

Should the mentally stable be allowed to be psychiatrists?

@sunkissed1221 @SMB_Attorney maybe because there was no business development inherent in your job.

@SMB_Attorney I joined the Army JAGC and had the exact opposite experience. Yeah, I’m not rich but I have lifelong friends, immediate camaraderie with other Veterans, varied legal practice, and great leadership experience.

When I started in Big Law, my group had 13 corporate equity partners. They were split into three or four factions that genuinely hated each other. You could feel it in the room at mandatory meetings. Just pure disdain sitting in the air. No one shared business development. No one shared best practices. They actively talked negatively about each other. Honestly, they were probably a net detriment to each other’s practices. And definitely not operating in a way that was optimal for the client. There was no real information sharing. No real department-wide training. You could go weeks without seeing anyone. You could be working on transactions, sitting on Zoom with people on the same floor as you, and go weeks without actually interacting with them in person if you wanted to. Other than the mandatory happy hours and the secretary sitting outside your office like a hostage. This wasn’t unique to one firm. I worked at several. They all felt like this. Big Law firms aren’t really firms. They’re a collection of fiefdoms. Each partner has their own little kingdom. A couple associates. Maybe a niche. That’s it. The associates have sharp elbows. Everyone is competing for the same hours. And when work slows down, it gets worse. Senior attorneys start doing junior-level work just to protect their numbers. Which tells you everything you need to know about how the incentives are set up. It’s a truly toxic environment. And it’s not accidental. It’s structural. And the equity structure doesn’t help. It’s a mile wide and an inch deep. You’ve got a bunch of lawyers technically “owning” the business, but no one actually running it like a business. No real professional management. No outside ownership. No experienced operators thinking about scale, systems, or efficiency. Just lawyers managing a large, complex organization. Which is exactly why their ability to adopt technology and AI is going to be abysmal. Then there’s compensation. Some firms even use “black box” systems. They’ll tell you it promotes collegiality. It doesn’t. It just hides how people are actually getting paid. And gives leadership more control over who wins and who doesn’t. Then there’s recruiting. On-campus interviews. Hotel rooms. 20-minute speed dating. You ask every firm the same question. What’s your culture like? They all give the same answer. We’re collegial. We support each other. We coach our kids’ games. It’s all the same script. And none of it tells you anything real. You don’t understand what it’s actually like until you’re 6 to 18 months in. By then, you’re already in the system. At one firm, there was a group that went to the same Mexican restaurant every Friday. All men. The women lawyers hated it. Thought it was exclusionary. They were probably right. It always felt off. Not because of the tacos. Because of what it represented. A system where collaboration is optional. And individual incentives run everything. It’s a weird industry. And once you see how it actually operates, you realize something pretty quickly. This model is incredibly disruptible.