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L_William_W
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Document Review
Long story short, I have two jobs. One of them is a non-legal job that I do on weekends. The other is a job at a law firm in which I'm treated like a walking punching bag. I want to tell my boss to kiss my ass and then quit. I'm interested in pursuing document review. However, I'm not quite sure what it entails and what do I need to know. Can anyone give me some insight?
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CyberpunkAttorney
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Re: Document Review
Document rewview is the legal equivalent of doing "background acting" (extra work) in Hollywood, meaning you have to fight waves of others to even get a gig, and it might last 2 days or 4 months, and varying degrees of quality between.
I might be a weirdo, but I did it for a while because I knew we were moving to a new city for a spouse's job soon and I just needed something to do, but I found myself kind of enjoying it. I threw on a mix of music, podcasts, and web streamed radio and kind of just got in the zone. Expectations are usually clear, and it's nice have literally zero ties to any of the management, so as long as you do your work as expected, you can shut the computer down and walk out the door without a second thought at the end of the day, free to focus on the rest of your life.
To be clear though, it's still mind-numbingly repetitive, more so sometimes than others with the subject matter, and not something you want to try to get a "break" or make a lot of money from. Just like background acting in movies.
PS: Here's a good older discussion about what it actually entails in terms of what the work is: http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... 4&t=193115
I might be a weirdo, but I did it for a while because I knew we were moving to a new city for a spouse's job soon and I just needed something to do, but I found myself kind of enjoying it. I threw on a mix of music, podcasts, and web streamed radio and kind of just got in the zone. Expectations are usually clear, and it's nice have literally zero ties to any of the management, so as long as you do your work as expected, you can shut the computer down and walk out the door without a second thought at the end of the day, free to focus on the rest of your life.
To be clear though, it's still mind-numbingly repetitive, more so sometimes than others with the subject matter, and not something you want to try to get a "break" or make a lot of money from. Just like background acting in movies.
PS: Here's a good older discussion about what it actually entails in terms of what the work is: http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... 4&t=193115
