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Liz Gil

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founding attorney @ optimal counsel. startup lawyer. dog momager. alum @fenwickwest . @lizcgil .bsky.social. she/her. opinions my own. 🇨🇺🗽🦎

Manhattan, NY

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Joined August 2015

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@LizCGil

Liz Gil

18 days

(testing, testing…🎤) Hellooo, I’m your friendly neighborhood startup attorney! I help early stage cos with general corp needs, VC financings, and M&A. Clients largely range from pre-formation concepts thru Series C~ish funded cos. I love referrals, so pls reach out! 🥰

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Need a new pinned tweet that's less funny and more about what I do/who I am. I'm an actual attorney (3x in-house counsel) and I run my own small law firm in Florida. We specialize in fractional/outside general counsel services for companies and commercial litigation.

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Liz Gil

2 years

My firm is 100% remote so I’ve got no skin in this game: but if firms are going to force people to come in, then “transit” should be billable. Like, *actually* counted in everyone’s year-end hours. If face time is important to the point of mandating it, then pay the Time Debt.

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Just my opinion: the fact that they blamed KATE, not Will - the supposed “photographer” - for the photoshop snafu suggests that they’re in full “protect the Prince” mode. From what, we can only guess, but….

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wanna meet a lot of em at once? go to law school *ducks*

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you ever meet a man and it’s so obvious that no one in his life has ever told him to shut the fuck up

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2 years

Are we all supposed to just…work today? As though nothing’s happened? Keep tippy-tappying out our lil emails?

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2 months

The saddest thing about all this to me rn is that Meghan genuinely strikes me as the kind-hearted classy type who wouldn’t be enjoying the tremendous irony here - meanwhile if I were her I’d be blasting Taylor Swift’s “Karma” for all of Montecito to hear

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3 months

It’s a personal choice, I get it, but my spicy hot take of the evening is that I’m mad at people who waive inspection. It’s starting to become an expectation in this housing market just to be competitive, and it’s pressuring buyers to make an objectively unhinged decision

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2 years

Meghan Markle was undoubtedly *fully aware* she was about to get an onslaught of hate from people accusing her of a PR stunt. Instead of letting this disincentivize her, she went to pay her respects, knowing that was more important than any backlash. This is The Way. 👏

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3 years

37.2 percent bar pass rate in CA. Why are we a profession that prides itself on keeping people out? Why do we insist on using arbitrary, archaic standards to tell applicants - after literal years of study - that they’re *still* not good enough? We should all be angry.

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2 years

People who text every single person they’ve ever known “merry Christmas”: we get it, you have your life together

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2 years

Deciding to be a lawyer is resigning to a lifetime of likely never saying anything definitively.

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2 years

Putting my law degrees to good use as Meghan Markle’s unofficial Twitter defense counsel

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3 years

I’m going to shamelessly start responding to people who brag about working super late/on weekends with “yikes” because for the 1000000th time it is not a flex

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2 years

I gave notice. I’m leaving biglaw. Holy shit. 🎉

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2 years

Let ppl choose for themselves, or Pay The Time Debt. That should be the choice. Obvs, I’d love it if folks just went ahead and embraced autonomy (it won’t bite! It may actually *improve* culture!) - but, forcing ppl to come in & making their lives worse for it is a shit move.

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2 years

@Jaspell The first half of this tweet takes all credibility out of the second. You clearly cannot relate/don’t understand what this is like. Also, pls cut “you’re a grown up” language from statements to younger attys, please. It’s all too prevalent and entirely unnecessary condescension.

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3 years

I passed the bar. Fuck the bar.

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2 years

Me, ready to get screamed at by old school #lawtwitter for this take:

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2 years

I am *begging* the Meghan Markle haters to stop sending me the Reddit screenshot where the trusted journalist “bubblegum_yum_yum” verifies their allegations. I have cried too many tears of mirth already

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3 years

Meghan Markle won’t see your mean tweets about how her struggle with mental health “isn’t real” - but your friends, who have experienced/are experiencing the very pain she describes, will.

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2 years

Marrying an extrovert is the life hack of the century and I will die on this hill. All of the event invites, none of the work

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2 years

Lawyer 1: “I was editor in chief of law review.” Lawyer 2: “I was Order of the Coif.” Me: “I made it onto my law school’s Twitter watch list.”

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2 years

“SO BASICALLY WE USED TO HAVE AN APPRENTICESHIP SYSTEM BUT THEN IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY THE LEGAL PROFESSION STARTED USING THE BAR EXAM TO EXCLUDE DIVERSE APPLICANTS & WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE STATS YOU CAN TELL IT’S STILL DOING THAT TO THIS DAY & THAT RLY ITS NOT ABOUT COMPETENCE”

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2 years

Not a biglaw partner 1) asking my friend who’s *out on bereavement* to do something, 2) ignoring her automatic reply notifying him of said bereavement, and 3) “circling back” on what he asked her to do because he still expected her to deliver. Grow some humanity. My god.

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1 year

Honestly, Prince Harry saying “fuck it” to the monarchy’s strict culture of silence, telling his story as an unabashed and gloriously unhinged stream of consciousness, and making bank as a result is iconic. Good for him

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Liz Gil

3 years

Reminder: when you post a picture or a gif, please tap the “+Alt” symbol on the bottom right and type out a quick description! It takes two seconds and increases accessibility. I was bad at this at first, but it’s become second nature now. It’s a habit worth developing!

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2 months

Classic manipulation tactic: lie, then shame people for catching on.

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2 years

Tell me you don’t know what the LSAT is without telling me what the LSAT is

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Tucker: It might be time for Joe Biden to let us know Ketanji Brown Jackson’s LSAT score was. Why wouldn’t he tell us that…

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2 years

Even the smallest forms of protest matter. Like saying “no” when someone asks if you’ve heard of Harvard

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2 years

If we became lawyers and wind up being too afraid to push for positive change (for fear of being deemed “unprofessional”), tell me: what was the whole point of becoming a lawyer

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2 years

@beeratlaw It’s pretty tiring that the burden here continually gets put on individual employees, when it’s *absolutely fair* to push employers to have rational, modern policies in the year of our lord 2022. Esp when ppl have been doing this work remotely without issue for years now.

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2 years

“Help! I ignored mountains of evidence and based my opinions solely on internalized misogyny, fame culture, and TikToks. AITA??”

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2 years

for people who wonder why I tweet law jokes publicly under my own name, it’s truly as simple as: I want to normalize lawyers having personalities/containing multitudes

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3 months

Why are lawyers still out here starting firms with their last names when they could be naming them something great like “Don’t Estop Me Now, LLP”

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1 year

Dear Outlook: when I copy and paste an email address, I don’t want the “mailto:” part. I literally never want the “mailto:” part. Pls fix

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2 years

Calling this a “leak” is a disservice to what this person did. It was whistleblowing

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11 months

I’m still haunted by the first episode of Suits, where the partner had a Barbri bar prep book just sitting ON HIS DESK (??) and the interviewee was like “open it, ask me anything.” The implication being that a Barbri book = a repository of All The Laws. My soul left my body lmao

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I am once again asking people to wrap their brains around the fact that being cruel doesn’t make you a superior lawyer, it just makes you an asshole.

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Johnny Depp's lawyer Camille Vasquez admitted in a panel this week that during the 2022 trial she had a female member of his legal team spray Depp's cologne in the court toilets used by Amber Heard to wage "psychological warfare" against her. Do you know how fucking evil that is?

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2 years

Older attorneys calling younger ones “ungrateful” for not putting up with toxicity is the death rattle of a belief system that has needed to die for a long, long time

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6 months

Me deciding to go to law school

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6 months

i do believe that bears are dangerous and anyone who thinks they can get close to one is very stupid. but i also think i am different and the bear would sense my loving spirit

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2 years

Law Schools: “a typo?? You are an absolute disgrace. We dock you 500 points. Count yourself lucky we didn’t expel you.” The Legal Profession:

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3 years

0LS PLEASE DO NOT START STUDYING LAW STUFF BEFORE STARTING SCHOOL OH MY GOD

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2 years

Saying “I’ll adopt your baby” as if we’re easy bake ovens that can just pop out human beings with no emotional and physical repercussions is downright nuts

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2 years

In the “honeymoon” phase of our relationship, my abusive ex told me about how his “crazy” and abusive ex girlfriend once pulled a knife on him. I was horrified and so scared for him. Looking back now, I sometimes still wonder what really happened. What he did to her.

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2 years

I’m insulted by anyone who thinks my LSAT score is the indicator of my intelligence I was consistently, unfailingly mediocre long before taking it

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2 years

Possibly a hot take: but I don’t think it’s unprofessional to acknowledge that you’re likely to work a lot harder for the people who are kind to you.

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2 years

Hot take: you can practice law effectively without being toxic, try it, it’s fun

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2 years

I truly cannot imagine litigating an extremely serious case in the UK and having to be like “wait, let me put on my George Washington wig first”

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16 days

Outbid yet again. They paid $400k over asking in all cash. What’s the fucking point.

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2 years

It infuriates me to know that, because he has such an absurdly large platform, Musk’s ill-informed & fear-mongering take re: Wellbutrin could make people hesitate to get the help they need. Reckless and damaging.

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1 year

“I’m an adult. I’m an attorney,” I say as I eat mac and cheese shaped like tiny llamas

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2 years

Would love to see a world where Democrats stop bending over backwards to appeal to people who will never vote for them, and start serving their own base

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3 years

“Your generation is so much less willing to put up with things.” Yes, and I love that about us.

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3 years

2017 me: “wow, I’m going to law school, can’t wait for a career of defending justice and speaking truth to power.” Current me: “please execute the enclosed Docusign at your earliest convenience.”

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2 years

People in Oklahoma - if you find yourself suddenly unable to Get A Cup of Coffee, and you need to/are able to travel for it, you are welcome to stay with me and I will Bring You to Starbucks.

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2 years

When 1Ls tell me how burned out and miserable they are, I’ve stopped saying “that’s normal” and started saying “that’s typical for people in this extremely abnormal and difficult setting.” Language matters. We may have shared the experience but it never had to be that way.

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3 months

If you have the cash to burn to NOT ONLY pay way over asking, but also to waive inspection, good for you - but that’s contributing to a market trend that is harmful to buyers. Normalizing the cavalier assumption of this level of risk is just shitty.

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2 months

“He could’ve taken it and she could’ve edited” yup, aware of that possibility as I wrote four hours ago lol but that does not make it remotely likely. If you want to wholeheartedly believe that this photo was truly edited by the Princess of Wales, that’s uh, your prerogative!

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2 months

@CRELeasingLawTX Well, that at least can be plausibly explained, since people edit pics they didn’t take all the time. But I do not believe for a single second that this woman who has functionally disappeared after supposedly major surgery sat there photoshopping this pic

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2 years

You really expect me to work on this, t̶h̶e̶ ̶d̶a̶y̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶d̶a̶u̶g̶h̶t̶e̶r̶’̶s̶ ̶w̶e̶d̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ the Friday of an absolutely normal week

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5 months

Hot take: it’s wildly inappropriate for employers to put stuff like “you’re not social enough” in year end reviews. Unless your job description contemplates time spent on social obligations & other uncompensated contributions to firm culture, those aren’t your responsibility.

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I had my year-end evaluation and it went like “You have great substantive legal skills, but you don’t come into the office enough and you don’t attend social events and you don’t regularly answer emails on weekends.” Yes, precisely.

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2 years

A straight cis white man said “this isn’t my fight” last night re: abortion rights and when I tell you my heart sank

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2 years

A woman in front of me in the Sephora line is on a Teams meeting on her phone with her camera off. Everyone else is at their desks. Iconic

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2 years

Do you want to go to law school? Or rather, more specifically: do you want to spend your life wearily bleating “only government actors…” whenever the 1A comes up?

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2 months

If they were going to go with “a royal messed this up themselves,” the far less suspicious choice would’ve been Will, who was credited for the pic anyway - not the woman who is supposedly convalescing after major surgery and hasn’t been heard from directly in ages.

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“You’re gonna be alone forever” is really only a sick burn if you assume everyone hates being with themselves as much as you do

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2 years

Getting the details of an assignment via email so you can refer back to it whenever & not have to take frenzied notes during a disorganized call >>>>>

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1 year

Law students’ fear of cold calls is a perfect example of how the legal profession fosters a culture of intimidation from the jump. Usually, cold calls have no effect on grades. Zero. There are no tangible, logical stakes to them. And yet the terror is so real.

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3 years

I know this is a controversial take in the law, but - maybe, just maybe, it’s okay to not be available every moment of every day.

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2 years

Not to be dramatic but we should really stop normalizing telling law school applicants “not to go” and start normalizing preparing them for battle

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2 years

Me: “I am not watching election news right now, for my mental health” Also me: *doomscrolling*

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3 months

Why do we keep having this biglaw vs public interest morality discourse? We’re all lawyers and thus awful by default

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2 years

If you delight in telling law students how miserable they’re going to be in practice, your unresolved trauma is showing

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3 months

I will absolutely never waive inspection because, like I said, it’s an unhinged thing to do. But the number of people who are doing this these days (and sellers agents who are acting like the buyers who still require inspection are somehow annoying/burdensome) is super bleak

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1 year

I am once again asking Microsoft Word to allow track comments on footnotes. I, a person who does not shut up, have things to say about those too and will not be silenced

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3 years

My friends who aren’t in law: “hey are you okay? Your posts are pretty dark” My friends who are in law: “LOL relatable content”

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1 year

Just saw a woman post on LinkedIn about how she changed her career trajectory bc her law firm said she couldn’t make partner if she went part-time. “Part-time” being… 40 hours a week.

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3 years

Law school: “always be concise” Law practice: “it is resolved, therefore, that under any and all circumstances (including, for the avoidance of doubt, but not limited to, x, y, and z)…”

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(TW: abuse) When I was in an abusive relationship, keeping receipts was almost 2nd nature for me. Not as a weapon, but because I’d internalized that my word alone would *never* be enough. That I’d be in a constant state of “convincing,” no matter what. It was self protective.

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2 years

Lost a bag, gained a fiancé, calling it a pretty huge win @AdamStasiw

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1 year

I can’t imagine being an employer, knowing someone at my firm billed 3,737 hours in a year, and just…reporting the number like it’s some kind of flex. If it’s true, your colleague is v likely on the brink of collapse, if not already over the edge. Wtf is wrong with you.

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2 years

How is “very truly yours” a “professional” signoff? It feels so intimate, like a love letter situation? But everyone just accepts it?

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3 years

Me, doubling down on the wrong argument on a law school exam

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9 months

Me: “I am an attorney. I am smart. I am capable. I am ruthless.” Also me, lettering exhibits: “🎶A, B, C, D, E, F, G….🎶”

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2 years

So many people keep missing the fact that we’re not advocating for bar abolition because “it’s a hard test.” Difficulty isn’t the issue. The issue is that the bar exam & its associated procedures are needlessly cruel relics that deliver no benefit to the profession or public.

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2 years

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My post-big law love letter to myself

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2 years

Getting messages from 1Ls who are worried that their 1st semester grades mean “game over” and they’ll never be able to get the jobs they want. THIS. IS. NOT. TRUE. 1st semester grades are notoriously bad - mine were. This is not the end and this will not stop you.

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2 years

Sorry to bring some LinkedIn energy to Twitter here, but, some career news. Today, I’m starting my next chapter as a Founding Attorney with Optimal Counsel: an elite, remote law firm built by forward-thinking attorneys for modern clients. Let’s go!!! 🚀

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Optimal Counsel

Highly experienced elite legal counsel for venture-backed companies, powered by modern technology without the wasteful baggage of conventional law firms.

www.optimalcounsel.com

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2 years

People are so mad at her for being nothing but a class act every time and it shows. Deal with ur jealousy

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2 years

Employees are adults who have shown for literal years now that they can get the job done from wherever. The hot “debate” about WFH is just about real estate investment and employers’ need to control their people. Nothing more

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3 years

(In 1L) “it gets better in 2L” (In 2L) “it gets better in 3L” (In 3L) “it gets better in practice” (In practice) “it gets better when you’re more senior” I am sensing a pattern

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2 years

Almost 1 full week on the new job, and I can honestly say that my mental health has skyrocketed. I’m energized. My brain feels restored. I’m wholeheartedly enjoying what I’m doing. Just saying this for anyone who doesn’t think this is possible in law. It is, and you deserve it.

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11 months

So let me get this straight: the premise of the first episode of Suits is that a biglaw partner “needs to hire an associate” (no summer associate pipeline?) because “every senior partner gets one” (what?)…but he’s too busy to interview people, so he has his secretary do it?

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4 years

Once again: No one is trying to “get out of” taking the bar exam. My colleagues and I have known about it for years. We have slogged through classes we wouldn’t otherwise take to prepare for it. Please don’t treat us like petulant children while we beg for basic disaster relief.

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9 months

Biglaw partner who’s had four divorces and brags about skipping his kid’s birth for a client call: “why don’t the youths want to be like me”

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8 months

Until I planned a wedding I did not realize how many people do not think of an RSVP as a simple yes or no question

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1 year

What’s funny/depressing to me about an AI passing the bar exam is that I just KNOW the people in charge will think it means AI’s coming for our jobs, not that we’re just using a shitty test that’s got nothing to do with practice

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6 months

A very sad thing about being a lawyer that I think deserves some acknowledgement is that - because of, you know, confidentiality - so many hilarious and fire tweets will be forever left unwritten. A moment of silence for those, please.

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1 year

Law school is a special circle of hell but a very appropriate circle of hell for all the people (myself included) who heard everyone else’s horror stories and thought “it’s okay, I’ll be ✨different✨”

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4 years

Rare pic of me listening to my male classmates in law school

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1 year

A tale as old as time: men without law degrees trying to school women who have them

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