Drew Morris | First Circle
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Outside General Counsel to bleeding edge companies @FirstCircleGC | Ex @trmlabs , @WilsonSonsini
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Keep ur friends close and ur lawyers closer
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law school is just business school for ppl who are too scared to learn pivot tables in excel
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Most situations don’t call for an “attack dog” lawyer.
They call for a “relentlessly constructive problem solver” lawyer.
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Lawyers.
I love you all but it’s ok to take “tweets are not legal advice” out of your bios.
We know. They’re tweets 🙃
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Now that it’s 2023, it’s time we all commit the following to memory:
It’s WAY cheaper to pay lawyers to do it right from the start than it is to pay lawyers to do a cleanup job after the fact.
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Lawyers put up OOO messages saying they have no access to email, Wi-Fi, running water or electricity then respond to every email w/in 5 minutes.
This is the magic of the profession.
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@anothercohen
but theyre awesome and i wouldnt want to haul my family around in anything else
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It's a rule of the profession that every time a lawyer labels a document as "(Final)" and circulates, there will be additional edits.
This needs to be taught in the core 1L curriculum in every law school in America.
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Let’s make 2022 the year where lawyers who put 2 spaces after a period finally surrender and admit they’ve been wrong the whole time
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An under appreciated skill of elite lawyers: coming up with 🔥 analogies on the fly.
Being serious here.
If you can do it, you have a hugely valuable communication tool for being clearly understood by non-lawyers.
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Contrary to popular belief, it's ok to be an excellent lawyer and have a personality
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Law firms should pay bonuses to associates who produce docs that get the highest volume usage as precedent internally.
A select few star associates do the drafting that hundreds (thousands?) utilize firmwide for years.
Incentivize master-level work that builds the foundation.
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if u take an extra 90 seconds on every email to order the receipts in the “to” field based on each persons seniority, ur probably a lawyer
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Serious question for ppl who weren’t law school gunners…
What did you do the entire time?
If u ask me, 3 years is an awful long time to sit in silence in drafty lecture halls.
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We made the decision to move to Boca having never been within 100 miles of the place.
House, schools, everything - all online, zero clue what we were signing up for.
Showed up for 1st time yesterday and am pleasantly surprised to learn I now live on vacation 🌴
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There’s no way to effectively lawyer without carving out significant chunks of your day for deep work.
No emails. No zooms. Heads down. Fully immersed in it.
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speaking at kids career day bc the youngsters need to know that w/ enough hard work they too can spend a good chunk of their best years staying up til 2am billing $600/hr on signature pages
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If law firms billed based on actual value delivered to clients, experienced paralegals would have a significantly higher hourly rate than 1st year associates
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Not a single corporate lawyer in TV or film that accurately portrays the profession.
Open invitation to prove me wrong.
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lawyers who send docs with the text aligned left instead of justified on the page are rogue operators in the legal system and must be rooted out
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I say this lovingly.
Law firms, It’s about time for a rebrand.
The Tik Tok generation isn’t really vibing with that fancy letterhead w/ the last names of those 4 long deceased partners from the olden days.
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The funny thing about lawyers on this app.
99% of law firm lawyers don’t even know our little corner of the world exists and most eyes would glaze over if one tried to tell them about it.
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Starting an exclusive club for optimistic lawyers only.
Now accepting applications.
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Non-lawyers often take big risks/swing for the fences early in their careers when they r young, unencumbered and well positioned to do so in their personal lives.
Lawyers have it different…🧵
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Miami ppl: After an exhaustive search, officially moving from Silicon Valley to Boca this summer.
Intent on being part of the
#MiamiTech
crew but am a nerdy suburban dad who is a sucker for open space for the kids.
Can I still hang? LMK. Thx.
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Lawyers who put whole sections of contracts in ALL CAPS.
You aren’t making those words EASIER to read.
You aren’t making them MORE enforceable.
You aren’t making our collective experience of life BETTER.
Peace and love ✌🏼+ 🫶🏼
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Law schools should teach a class on concise writing.
Lawyers use too many words.
Let’s nip the problem in the bud early on.
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lord grant me the confidence of lawyers who go ham deleting large swaths of text in track changes without providing any explanatory comments
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If u were a lawyer before DocuSign was the unquestioned default way of life, ur an OG.
That is the line in the sand between the old world and the new.
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Being a lawyer in crypto is like being the teacher chaperone on a class field trip to the amusement park
Still gotta be the responsible adult but at least you get to go on all the rides
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Startups typically hire their first in-house lawyer around 150-200 employees.
That is too late - here is why...🧵
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Star lawyers need elite level project management skills.
The gig isn’t singularly about “the law.”
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My favorite lawyers are those who understand + have fully internalized why people generally dislike lawyers.
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CAPITALIZING BLOCKS OF TEXT IN CONTRACTS DOESN’T MAKE THE WORDS MORE IMPORTANT.
It makes them harder to read.
Thank you for attending today’s intro to legal drafting lecture 🙏🏼
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Today is the start of something new.
After an incredible run at TRM, I am excited to announce the launch of First Circle GC, a Fractional General Counsel consulting firm for fast-growing technology companies.
Why now?
Simple. I've always had an itch to do something
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just fyi…we have excellent wifi and no state income taxes here
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Law firms are opaque about what associates *really* need to do to make partner.
Has become more confusing recently w/ firms dressing up in work/life balance costume.
Partners on bird app…any honest thoughts on the topic? 🧐
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Luck usually isn’t random.
Ppl who get “lucky” usually have done the work to increase the surface area their exposure to opportunities that produce lucky outcomes.
Hope u enjoyed this lecture, I’ll be here all month.
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Somewhere in suburbia there’s a Jr Associate grinding hours from their parents house.
Working every conceivable angle to get a vacationing CEO to click “sign” on a DocuSign.
The Associate is warm.
The Associate is well fed.
But, still, they deserve to be in our thoughts.
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Lawyers, broadly speaking, are overly doomer about the profession.
Many openly dislike the gig, and, in a weird way, get social cred in certain circles for being vocal about it.
Reminder…It’s ok to like this work + there’s no prize for being a hater. Try to have some fun 👍🏼
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Lawyers who call a redline a blackline are wrong and need to repeat a semester of law school
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If I had to pick one who gets closest it’s 👇🏼
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Lawyers.
Times New Roman size 11 won the font wars.
Give up already and move on.
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Titles aren’t my main thing, but getting promoted feels good.
To me, a promotion is a signal that you’re colleagues appreciate the energy and grit you’ve applied to whatever you’re team is building.
Ride is just getting started.
Onward 🎢
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You can do anything with a law degree.
True.
So long as by “anything” you mean either be a lawyer or start from scratch as an entry level employee in some non lawyer job.
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Everyone has a different “why” that fuels them.
My why?
Making enough to yolo into this Eames chair without batting an eye.
At that moment I will know I have reached the mountaintop.
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Law firms' most valuable asset: world-class talent
Law firms' 2nd most valuable: document repositories that have precedent language for almost every scenario
#2
isn't often discussed but it's a huge piece of the value pie for these shops
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Hey lawyers.
Being a serious thinker does not require having a boring personality.
Go ahead and share this tweet w ur firm’s Managing Partner.
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Lawyers generally specialize too early.
In part bc firms slot newbies into discrete practice groups.
Some benefits. (eg developing subject matter expertise)
But it’s a big world out there.
Take agency. Try new stuff.
May find something u love + r uniquely gifted at.
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LinkedIn search “counsel” for a single company: Google.
1,400+ results.
Crypto as an ENTIRE INDUSTRY has nowhere near that many.
We need more lawyers of all stripes. A lot more.
Tell your friends.
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“Over lawyering is not good lawyering.”
This should be read aloud over the loud speaker at law firms every morning like the pledge of allegiance in elementary school.
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Biglaw’s greatest ruse was somehow convincing their otherwise sophisticated clients that it’s in their best interests to pay $800/hr for some 26 y/o liberal arts grad from Oberlin do complex financial modeling for their major corporate transactions.
Well played, lawyers.
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Lots of lawyers reach out asking how to make the transition into crypto or “web3”.
My best answer: Up to u to just make it happen.
On-ramps into the space often aren’t clearly defined, but if u truly want it + are resourceful, most likely u can muscle ur way in.
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How to lawyer - a one tweet handbook:
Step 1: Identify worst case outcome
Step 2: Identify most likely outcome
Step 3: Synthesize thoughts and communicate a recommendation to your client in crisp, easy to understand language
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Send the junior associate + paralegal on your deal a thank you note after it closes.
They will remember it.
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Sitting at breakfast in Boca.
Table next to me is a group of half dozen 70+ yr old men talking crypto the entire time.
This is the inflection point we’ve all been waiting for.
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Contrary to popular belief, most lawyers I know don’t “like arguing.”
They like exploring arguments.
Big difference.
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gm to all the lawyers cranking away rn getting hit with OOO responses and wondering if the deal team is on a remote island w/o wifi or if we still trying to make this happen in 2021...
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Have started doing my hair and putting on cologne before my Saturday evening Zoom calls with friends. Just practicing getting ready to go out again now that I am moving from Silicon Valley to Miami.
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@anothercohen
@shitcoinpro6942
never broke it out like that. calling my accountant to figure out how i got myself into this financial mess
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Effective lawyers can take what would otherwise be a meandering 3 para email and condense it into 3 crisp actionable bullets
Mastering that skill is probably the easiest way to level up in this game
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Jewish migration to Florida is about to enter turbo mode.
Similar to Covid, but obviously under very different circumstances.
This week feels like a breaking point for anyone holding out hope that things in their "progressive" cities might soon turn a corner.
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I’m a Jew.
I’ve lived in Israel.
What’s happened is incomprehensiby dark.
The world deserves the light of the Israeli spirit.
And Israel’s people deserve the world’s support.
Full stop. 🇮🇱
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Typical venture backed co’s usually hire 1st lawyer around Series B-ish (~50+ employees).
Varies by industry/co but usually no FT in-house lawyer until $ spend on outside counsel runs up high enough to justify the hire.
Crypto will be diff going fwd.
Why? 🧵
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Children who dream of growing up to become corporate lawyers have no clue how much they will have to think about the State of Delaware.
Someone should give them a heads up.
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Lawyers.
Provide concrete, actionable next steps every single time u provide advice.
Ur business colleagues generally aren’t interested in the sport of issue spotting.
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Half the lawyers in America are just ppl who (A) have a liberal arts degree and (B) want to make a good chunk of dough.
Very rarely do I encounter a good ol' fashioned Atticus Finch type who has been hardwired to do this since childhood.
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Cocktail party convo starters for lawyers in crypto:
• when market pumps: “I work in crypto.” - dazzles the crowd
• times like these: “I’m a corporate lawyer in the tech sector.” - no further questions
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Lawyer deal teams.
Here’s a personality guide so u can get to know everyone without racking up billable hours…🧵
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Hereby propose the “Notice” section of every contract be replaced with:
“If things go bad, shoot us an email and we’ll see where things go from there.”
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if ur a corporate lawyer u should go into every conversation knowing there’s a 99% chance the person ur talking to has no clue what u actually do day-to-day
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Many jr lawyers crave a role where they can “advise on strategy.”
Reality is, u need to prove u can absolutely nail the day-to-day grunt work before most clients will turn to u for this.
No shortcuts that I’m aware of in this line of work.
Sorry, I don’t make the rules 🤷🏻♂️
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Today is Crohn’s surgery day for the wife. We’re Cleveland Clinic frequent flyers in this house!
Send all the vibes.
Pls + thx ✌🏼
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The best lawyers write in stunningly plain English.
The others…well, you know. You’ve seen it. You’ve probably even paid for it.
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The “lawyers only” call is where the sausage is made.
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I don’t have ur mailing addresses and didn’t want to pay printing costs in this economy, so here’s my family holiday card.
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We need more lawyers.
We need more accountants.
We need more compliance folks.
We need more “boring” people.
Let’s push hard to onboard them.
Need to do that if we want another shot at onboarding the rest of the 🌎
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Somewhere out there lives a 1st-year associate who just got staffed on a super high-profile deal that is about to absolutely wreck their holidays.
And you can bet that chipper young legal mind is fired up about that 🔥
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Biggest falsehood of the legal industry: firm lawyers (associates especially) gain from playing it safe and never letting their personalities show.
Clients are people. They want to work with people.
Reducing yourself to a mute robot ain't the move.
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The
#1
pet peeve of EVERY single law firm client…
An hour long call where a superfluous associate logs on, sits in silence and kindly waves goodbye when it wraps 👋
All at the bargain price of $800 for that hour.
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Lawyers of all stripes.
Planting your flag in crypto is the best risk/reward bet available ATM.
The industry is here to stay.
Plenty of compelling opportunities across the ecosystem (ranging from quite stable to full degen).
Those who enter later will be playing catch-up.
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The only people who know what corporate lawyers actually do are other corporate lawyers.
To almost everyone else the day-to-day of this job is entirely opaque.
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Wife having complications w/ Crohn’s.
Nothing brings one back to earth faster than health issues. We push ahead like always and will get this solved.
Some thoughts on family, life + remote work…👇🏼
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Law firms should drop the whole “work life balance” charade.
We all know your shops are meat grinders. The business model requires it.
Better to just own reality. That’s life in the big leagues 🤷🏻♂️
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It’s not every day that you have your 1st day of work at your dream job.
Today is that day for me.
Excited to share that I have joined
@trmlabs
as Legal Counsel 👇🏼
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Being a corporate lawyer is like being a waiter.
An elite performance often means all goes flawlessly and the customer/client doesn’t even notice you’re there.
An invisible genie serving up piping hot dishes for the business folks to feast on.
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The fact that ppl r hardwired to dislike lawyers is actually an advantage for some of us.
Just being mildly friendly and non-lawyerly scores way more points than we actually deserve.
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• Lawyer A: competent + ultra responsive
• Lawyer B: brilliant + slow to respond
Clients prefer Lawyer A 99% of the time.
What we do generally isn't brain surgery.
Clients just want a capable, determined + readily available lawyer who can unblock their current issue.
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Friday was my last day at TRM.
The most meaningful professional experience of my life.
The smartest people I’ve ever been around.
What’s next for me? Will share more later this week.
Right now, just grateful for these people and these years 🫶
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Lawyering in crypto…
Reflections on a rollercoaster week…🧵
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Notion, Slack, Loom…
Law firms just aren’t using the same software stack as companies.
Causes unnecessary friction and slows things down.
Seems like low hanging fruit.
Some law firm should grab it.
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An incredibly responsive lawyer may or may not bet a great lawyer.
But…
A great lawyer will ALWAYS be an incredibly responsive lawyer.
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In case you need further evidence that we live in a simulation...
I bought a cube for $189 and now here I am in
@WSJ
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Moved to Florida in dead of summer 🥵
Everyone said, “Just wait until mid-October. You will see, it’s heavenly.” 🤔
Yup, they were right 🌴 🙌🏼
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Lawyers need to “productize” their legal services.
Response times, communication style, perspectives on life/business.
Work product must be consistent, easy to consume and “on brand.”
Like a Michelin star restaurant serving up expert crafted dishes of intellect.
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@shaig
sad that doing what's right here even requires "courage"
yet still, none have risen to the moment
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