Earning Your Keep?
About this time last year, I remember Nancy canvassing the JReubs for the top office view. So, with that in mind: how is your summer going?
1. How's the view?
2. How's the work?
3. How are the people?
4. The location?
5. What are your plans?
For those of us splitting, the questions above are only preliminary, of course. That doesn't mean you shouldn't pipe up now. We won't hold you to it. (This means, though, that we'll be getting new reflections on these questions from Phil well into November).
Though the questions are rather bland (I'm sure you will spice them up in due course), I think our answers will serve not only as a tool to maintain our respective superiority complexes but also as an indication to the incoming 1Ls of what fabulous riches, travels, and assorted status symbols await them. Anyway, if we keep talking about class selection, they may bail before they get here.
mcj
1. How's the view?
2. How's the work?
3. How are the people?
4. The location?
5. What are your plans?
For those of us splitting, the questions above are only preliminary, of course. That doesn't mean you shouldn't pipe up now. We won't hold you to it. (This means, though, that we'll be getting new reflections on these questions from Phil well into November).
Though the questions are rather bland (I'm sure you will spice them up in due course), I think our answers will serve not only as a tool to maintain our respective superiority complexes but also as an indication to the incoming 1Ls of what fabulous riches, travels, and assorted status symbols await them. Anyway, if we keep talking about class selection, they may bail before they get here.
mcj
posted by jennejohn at
3:31 PM
3 Comments:
1. How's the view?
I actually don't have a view from my office. There are six summer associates at Kirton this summer - a 2L and a 1L from BYU, 2 2Ls from the U of U, a 2L from U.S.C., and me. They have us segregated so that all of the males (4) are one side of the hallway in a big office and the females (2) are on the other side of the hallway in the same size office. Maybe it has something to do with the honor code or something....
That being said, it's always nice to see mountains after you've lived away from them for a while....
2. How's the work?
I'm really enjoying the work. I asked for a broad range of projects, with some extra tax and corporate stuff, and I have seen some fun stuff. I worked on a consumer protection research memo, some international stuff related to end user agreements, tax projects, and I'm starting on Title VII research project. It's been really interesting and I have really enjoyed it.
3. How are the people?
I couldn't ask to work with better people. I started work one day and I was out the next two days while Rebecca had a baby. Not only did the firm give me paid time off, they also sent a beautiful vase of flowers to Rebecca. Everyone is really fun to work with and they are very family-friendly. Everyone has also been very open to any questions that I have. There is a good feel to the office and everyone has been very kind so far.
I am afraid I might just get pretty fat this summer, as I have only not eaten out two times so far. I never knew Salt Lake had so much fine cuisine to offer....
4. The location?
We're located in the Eagle Gate Tower on State street and South Temple. It's a nice place and I enjoy downtown Salt Lake City.
5. What are your plans?
I plan to take my wife to Cafe Rio tomorrow night and then see a movie. After that, we'll just have to see....
Let me know if any of you come to Zion this summer and we'll have to hang out
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Jeff, at 6:45 PM
1. View is pretty darn good. I've got an office on the 9th floor (of a 10-story building) with big windows to myself, but it's facing north. I see mainly hills. The partners at the west end of the building are the lucky ones; they get to see the Rockies out their huge windows.
2. Work is really fun, which is a big relief considering I really had no clue what I was getting myself into when I decided to become a lawyer. I get to help out on both litigation and prosecution matters in the patent group.
3. The people I work with are one of the biggest reasons why I enjoy my work. I think that I'd be hard pressed to find place with better people. Like Phil's office, many here are athletic/outdoorsy.
4. The office is in Broomfield--outside of Denver near Boulder. This means that it is closer to our friends in Boulder, closer to places where we'd likely live, and closer to the mountains.
5. My plans are to come back next year, if they'll have me. But I'd like to split the summer if I could, just to see what else is out there.
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Scottypancakes, at 9:56 PM
wow, i need to keep up better.
1. The view from MoFo SF = 9.0 out of 10. I would have said 10, but the view from HK is even better. SF = own office, 36th floor of a 36 floor building. And I was facing the Bay Bridge with plenty of the water and downtown in sight and the hills beyond that. In HK my view is of the much more interesting and beautiful skyscrapers in Central, from the 41st floor of a 44 floor tower. I look out at buildings, and lots of water with Kowloon on the other side and mountains behind.
2. The work has been incredibly interesting and very flexible. In SF I could work on whatever I wanted--from Fed Tax to Pro Bono litigation, drafting legislation to Corporate/Business work (which is what I did mostly). In HK, it's of course almost all business. But last week I spent two days in a deposition (English-Chinese) with a partner that came in from the US.
3. People--in SF almost universally awesome. I loved the people from attorneys to staff to the softball team (comprised about 1/2 of former attorneys and staff.)
4. Location--in both instances, prime for the city in question. In SF, in the heart of the financial district. In HK, brand new offices that we just moved into last week. It's the building where most major US firms have their offices.
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Traveling Mattie, at 6:32 PM
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