I got a JOB!
#239511 - 01/18/06 02:16 PM
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I am so excited! The law firm I worked for over the summer just called and offered me a full time position for afer I graduate! I'll start in September, after I've taken the bar exam and a BIG vacation. I am thrilled. I loved working with them -- they are an excellent group of people -- and I love the interesting work I'll be doing. I am SO GLAD my job search is over. It has been so stressful, sending out resumes, going on a million interviews. I am so happy! Just had to share!
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Yah!!! Doing the Happy Happy Happy Dancing with ya!! GREAT NEWS...and what a way to start the New Year!! 
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That's so great! Congratulations!! I remember that I got my teaching job right after I graduated. I had already done some college work there and loved the staff. Nine years later and I still do!! Where are going on vacation? Congrats again that must be a good feeling!! 
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Have a blessed day!...Rachel
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That's exciting news! You must've really impressed them.
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That's outstanding!
Kate.
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I can only imagine the joy, and hope I join you in the world of fully employed professionals VERY SOON!
But it's awesome that you got in somewhere you already love. that's so ideal!
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What a big stressor put to rest! After you ace the bar exam, you'll be on your way!
What kind of law will you be practicing?
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BUT CONGRATS!!
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Awesome!
#239657 - 01/18/06 07:37 PM
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jen1013
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Congrats, Amanda!!! That's fantastic!
Now for the important part -- what do you wear to work?? Here's my thing -- I have several of those really cute sexy suit or suit-type outfits, but I don't have the guts to wear them. I got them dirt-cheap on the clearance rack, which I'm thinking means no one else here in the boonies has the guts to wear them, either. So in a metro area like New York, do female lawyers wear short skirts and tight tops? I guess I figure that it's probably not appropriate for work if it makes my husband sexually harass me.
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Wow, it's so good to hear your wonderful news. Congratulations, I'm SO happy for you.
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Congrats Amanda! That is very very awesome. I bet you feel like a huge weight has been lifted off of you. I'll be in the same boat as you were in a couple months once my internship where I'm at now is over. I am definitely factoring in a little vacation time before I start working again though for the rest of my life. Sometimes I'd love to stay in school forever.
Congrats again!
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That's awesome Amanda! What part of the city will you be working in? Good luck on your Bar exam. I know it is tough but you will be fine!
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Congrats!
#239692 - 01/19/06 05:26 AM
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What firm is it? just wondering if you'll wind up running into my cousins husband... he's relatively new at a firm in the city too- passed the bar 2 years ago I think it was...
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Congrats!!!!!!  Thats got to be a big load of stress off you! Where are you going on vacation?
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RIGHT ON!
YAY!!!! 
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Fantastic
#239778 - 01/19/06 09:26 AM
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cailin
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That's great Panda, big congratulations.
Time to start planning that big vacation..where are you hoping to go? (can i come...pleeease?)
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Amanda
#239838 - 01/19/06 11:46 AM
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Will you move or stay where you are in the "stamp house"? What adventure you have coming down the pike!
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Have a blessed day!...Rachel
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Wow, this is just SOOOO GREAT ! ! !
*hugs*
I'm so thrilled for you! A vaca (much deserved), and the job you want at the place you want....this is just such SUPER news!
Congrats *more hugs*
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Ruch
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Amanda,
Congratulations! I am so happy for you. Sounds like the perfect job to me and now you can relax and not have the stress of looking.
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Thanks Shell! I've been doing the happy dance for almost a week. One question -- does it burn calories???
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Thanks, Angela
I'm pretty jazzed, I'm glad you can relate! Such a good feeling for the search to be over AND to already know that I like the place.
The vacay will be 4 weeks in Asia: Thailand, Hong Kong, and Japan. I'm really looking forward to it!
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I'm going to try to respond to specific questions below!
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Amanda
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The firm I'm working for has a transactions group (we write up a contract so one company can buy another company, etc), which I find pretty boring, and I'm thankfully not in that department. The other half of the practice is commercial litigation (companies suing each other, sometimes a private person suing a company, or a company suing a private person, but not usually two private people suing each other). The bulk of the commercial litigation practice is Insurance Defense, meaning when one of our clients, an Insurance company, denies a claim to one of their insureds, and that person sues the insurance company for coverage, we defend the insurance company. I know it sounds dull but I actually really like it. It's fun picking apart the policy language and figuring out what the terms really mean, researching how the courts have interpreted these terms before, etc.
97% of all suits in the country get settled before they reach the courtroom, but I am hoping to get some of the 3% that doesn't, so I can get some courtroom practice. Either way, I'll get to do a ton of writing, which I like almost as much as speaking!
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I'll wear a suit just about every day, like I did this summer. I can also get away with a skirt and a sweater, or a dress and a cardigan. There are a couple of factors at play: 1, I'm only 24 and don't need to emphasize that. 2, I'm one of only 3 women attorneys at the firm, and I don't really want to emphasize that either. It's already weird when partners hold doors for me, since I'm so junior to them!
So yeah, I try to avoid the sexy stuff too much. All the administrative staff is female (secretary, receptionist, etc) and they don't always dress very professionally, and I don't want the others at the firm to lump me in together with them since they're all my age and women. So I'll try to wear conservative suits and not lunch with them too much. Ay, office politics ...
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Thanks, Tommy! I'll be in midtown-east, which is a perfect commute for me since I live in the Murray Hill / Kips Bay area. I'll walk on most days, and take the 6 when it's too nasty out or I'm too lazy.
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thanks! I'm not really comfortable posting the firm name online. I can email it to you if you like. It's a small firm of about 30 attorneys in midtown-east, if that helps!
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Asia!
#240719 - 01/23/06 07:13 AM
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One of my girlfriends from school and I are going to Thailand (Phuket, Cheng Mei, Bangkok), Hong Kong, and Japan (Kyoto, Tokyo, and hopefully a day or two at an Inn in the country). I'm SO EXCITED, needless to say!
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Thanks! I actually think I'll have more free time when I'm working than I've had as a student, so I'm going to try to stay here in the stamp house. If it gets to be too much, I suppose I'll move, but I'd rather stay and pocket all of my salary!
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I did insurance defence for a lot of my traineeship- I used to like the ones best where the Insurance company got a private investigator to shadow the claimant and they found him working as a roofer even though he had claimed in the court papers that he could barely walk. We had tons of those kinds of ones. Even when they do settle they still go so far that you have all the prep done to go to trial...I miss private practice  Best of luck with it!
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Re: Asia!
#240759 - 01/23/06 08:58 AM
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cailin
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Wow, sounds fantastic.
I was in Tokyo a few years ago and it was AMAZING- a different world (very, very expensive though) Lots of great dining opportunities. If you get the chance travel to Nikko (it's about an hour and half by train from Central Tokyo) to the most beautiful temples- it's like being in Disneyland.
I am hoping to go to Southeast Asia on holiday this year- Thailand,Cambodia, Vietnam..somewhere in that general vicinity. Have to wait a while to book yet though...
Have a great time.
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Re: Asia!
#242378 - 01/28/06 02:02 PM
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jen1013
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Aggghhh! Four weeks of squat toilets!
(I totally revised my sense of adventure once I learned about what bathrooms were like in foreign countries.)
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jen
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Haha hopefully it won't be too bad. I survived the toilets in Turkey, so this should be okay. We're staying at all nice hotels so at least we can count on good accomodations there!
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