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The Five People You Meet at the Bar Exam

February 2, 2021 by Bitter Staff 29 Comments

A checklist of the six types of people you’re guaranteed to meet in the bar exam room

Filed Under: Columns, Featured, Lawyer Tagged With: bar exam, Bitter by Numbers

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Seven Tricks of Law School Networking 101

January 6, 2021 by Bitter Contributor 34 Comments

To prepare for gut-wrenching, mind-numbing “networking” events, here are a few exercises that can steel you for boredom, humiliation, and awkwardness.

Filed Under: Columns, Featured, Featured Lawyer, law school, Lawyer Tagged With: Bitter by Numbers, bitter rant, law students

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10 Things You Will Do While Studying for the Bar

July 16, 2019 by Kate Currer 47 Comments

The ten things you will almost always do during the weeks of studying for the bar exam.

Filed Under: Bitter by Numbers, Featured, Features Lawyer, Lawyer Tagged With: bar exam, Bitter by Numbers, studying

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10 Funny Judicial Quotes

April 9, 2019 by Grey Bitter 15 Comments

Judges can be funny too. Here’s the proof.

Filed Under: Bitter by Numbers, Features Lawyer, Lawyer Tagged With: Bitter by Numbers, Featured, judicial quotes

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Seven Things to Look Forward to as a Junior Associate

October 21, 2017 by Bitter Staff 6 Comments

Seven Things to Look Forward to as a Junior Associate: 1.  Doing absolutely nothing all week, then getting a Friday phone call from a partner at 5:15 PM. 2.  Being uninteresting to people with cool jobs. 3.  Telling people that vacations are for pussies and actually believing it. 4.  Telling your friends that you have…

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: associate, biglaw, Bitter by Numbers

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Five Types of Law Partners

September 20, 2017 by Bitter Staff 17 Comments

The five kinds of terrible and awful law partners you meet in BigLaw firms.

Filed Under: Bitter by Numbers, Lawyer Tagged With: biglaw, Bitter by Numbers, Featured, partners

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10 Greatest Fictional Lawyers (Overlooked by the ABA Journal)

September 13, 2017 by BL1Y 11 Comments

The ABA Journal featured The 25 Greatest Fictional Lawyers (Who are Not Atticus Finch).  Some are interesting, like Vincent “Vinny” Gambini from My Cousin Vinny, but they took the lazy road of handing out honors to pretty much every hour-long prime time legal show, including Law & Order, Boston Legal, L.A. Law and Ally McBeal. They…

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: ABA, Bitter by Numbers

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Five Godawful YouTube Video Depositions

August 21, 2017 by Gregory D. Luce 9 Comments

We’ve collected five of the most godawful video deposition excerpts on YouTube. Consider it our resource center for bad depos.

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Filed Under: Bitter by Numbers, Lawyer Tagged With: Bitter by Numbers, depositions

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Warning Signs You Are a Doc Review Lifer

July 24, 2017 by Bitter Staff 1 Comment

For those who may have missed the warning signs, here are the signs that you may be a doc review lifer

Filed Under: Bitter by Numbers, Lawyer Tagged With: Bitter by Numbers, Bottom Rung, document review

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Top Three Stand-Up Comedians Who Were Lawyers

July 12, 2017 by Mark Thudium 17 Comments

There’s something about a law degree that draws closeted stand-up comedians into its tractor beam

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: Bitter by Numbers, comedians, comedy

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