Suit of the Week: Toccin
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For busy working women, the suit is often the easiest outfit to throw on in the morning. In general, this feature is not about interview suits for women, which should be as classic and basic as you get — instead, this feature is about the slightly different suit that is fashionable, yet professional. Also: we just updated our big roundup for the best women's suits of 2026!
Toccin is a relatively new brand to me, but then again it was just founded in 2019 by a husband/wife duo.
They have a lot of great basics in largely neutral colors (white, black, beige) but also a relatively large selection of suiting, almost all in black. I like this double breasted blazer has a classic look to it, and I like that it's machine washable.
The blazer is $595; the matching pants are $425 (there's a wide leg and flared pant that both match; there's also a single-breasted blazer and a boyfriend blazer). The brand was nice enough to offer Corporette readers a discount; use code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off.
Sales of note for 5/1:
- Ann Taylor – Friends of Ann Event, 40% off your purchase PLUS $50 off $200! Readers love this popover blouse, and their suiting is also in the sale.
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code
- Brooklinen – 25% off sitewide (ends 5/1) — we have and love these sateen sheets
- Evereve – All tops on sale
- Express – $39+ Summer Styles
- Hatch – $15 off one of our favorite alarm clocks with code LETMOMSLEEP15
- J.Crew – Up to 30% off wear-now styles
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 60% off everything, and extra 60% off clearance
- Lands' End – 40% off sitewide – lots of ponte dresses come down under $25, and this packable raincoat in gingham is too cute
- Loft – 60% off florals and 50% off your purchase
- M.M.LaFleur – End of season sale. Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off.
- Nordstrom – 1500+ new women's markdowns
- Sephora – Hair deals daily – today 5/1 up to 50% off dae, Verb, PATTERN by Tracee Ellis Ross, and BaBylissPro products
- Talbots – 40% off one item and 30% off your entire purchase
- TOCCIN – Use code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off!
- Vivrelle – Looking to own less stuff but still try trends? Use code CORPORETTE for a free month, and borrow high-end designer clothes and bags!
I know that there are a lot of lawyers here. I’m currently working as a deputy clerk of court and I love it. I get a lot of advice when I say I want to go to law school. Some is: if you want to be a lawyer, avoid the top law schools because they are very theoretical and don’t train you to practice law. Instead, go to somewhere near here where the expectation among all teachers and admins is that you will be working as a lawyer nearby and need to understand local corporation law, local court practice, etc. One person told me that I could take a tax class from someone who has never worked as a tax lawyer or learn how to be a lawyer from someone who has never had to bill or even meet clients. This sounds really crazy, like you could go to learn how to cut hair from the best hair school and be taught by someone who had never cut hair and wouldn’t now how to cut hair when you graduate or pass the licensing exam. Law school is so expensive — is this really how it is?
Law school is theoretical, not practical. It’s teaching you to think, not to practice. So yes, you could take tax law from someone who never actually practiced tax law at a firm, but they are like really really educated in tax law. This happens more at higher ranked, top schools; less at smaller schools that have more of a commuter focus.
As a lawyer, go to law school if you want to be a lawyer. If you want to practice in the community where you are now, unless it’s a really big city, go to school in your community. Spend as little as possible. If you want to join a really big firm and take the traditional big law route, go to the highest ranked school you can.
I see what you did 😂
The firs two sentences summarize law school perfectly. As a result, I finished law school not knowing how to do a darn thing to actually practice law, and I assume that’s pretty typical. I went to a mid-tier school in the city where I wanted to practice, and I found that the full-time law faculty were significantly better than the adjuncts who taught on the side but were actually full time practicing lawyers who just wanted to tell their war stories.
For me, I really enjoyed law school and hated practicing law. The theory was very interesting and the practical application was mind numbingly boring.
I’m curious — what sort of work have you done if you liked school but hate practicing?
I liked school, but less and less as I went along. I have really liked working (and having a paycheck).
I did Big Law for a couple of years of misery. And then I became a career federal law clerk for a judge, and I have been happy doing that for about 10 years.
To the law clerk: assuming its district court, how is it doing federal law crimes? I like the drug ones just fine but I miss the color of state law crimes. The federal crimes are otherwise soul-less.
The lawyers who practice in state court a lot probably did go to a local law school. That is one type of pathway in law school. It often is not the most lucrative one.
You need to figure out what you want to do. Go see hearings in federal court, too. Go sit in on a criminal trial.
I went to a top law school because I wanted to make a lot of money if I was going to incur the stress of being a lawyer anyway. It’s been great for that. I have friends who chose my school and ended up going into family law and like, I do not get that at all, because you do not need an expensive degree to mediate divorces. That is a practice area where being familiar with local courts, laws, and practices actually really does benefit you, and you’re not making enough starting out for $250k in loans to make sense.
I’m in BigLaw and I keep shaking my head at first years who never took corporations or business associations. Especially when they summered here. I get that summers are very high-paid vacations for law students, but these classes help you not fail the bar (we’ve had that) and actually understand what we do here. So no matter where you go, take the fundamentals: corporations, business associations (know what LLCs and partnerships are and how they are alike and different), securities law, secured transactions, anything dealing with lending or corporate finance (often the closest you’ll get), all of the property law and real estate classes; tax isn’t bad to have. There are lots of litigation classes, but chances are, you will do something either in addition to that or instead of that. And anything on administrative law, especially if you go into government practice or work in a regulated area (e.g., tax, zoning, securities).
I’m not sure. I went to a regional well ranked school that had an excellent clinical program. We produced both big law attorneys and assistant district attorneys and attorneys who became state court judges.
Plenty of my law school was theoretical. My first year torts professor was not a trial lawyer. However, the concepts of making a plaintiff whole, of proximate cause, red ipsa loquitor, ect are theoretical in nature and it’s valuable to think of them that way.
It’s awesome to have clinical exposure to various real world legal jobs. It’s great if a tax lawyer teaches a tax clinic. But I kind of push back on the idea that law school shouldn’t be theoretical. You need to understand fundamental concepts. The best of our profession, the reason it is a profession, involves higher level thinking about law and justice and equity. I think that’s where the beauty school metaphor fails. Furthermore, I did find professors were better at teaching conceptually than attorneys moonlighting as professors based on their experience.
To your final point, however, it is expensive. If you want to practice locally, go locally. But don’t advertise or brag about your distain for conceptual or theoretical learning. Anti intellectualism makes for a very bad attorney; even if she practices locally.
My gripe about law school is that first year theoretical concepts are often not advanced beyond theory into the applications stage. I’ve actually used the “bundle of sticks” from property law 101 to discuss a topic, but being in private practice is a lot of skills because you are dealing with a lot of things, often including running a business.
I feel like med school has the right mix: half didactic and half applied
I need some advice for reaching out to contacts looking for a job.
I work in a very niche industry as a government regulator. I am known as THE person globally for this issue. At conferences and stuff industry has made comment about how they would ‘love to have [me]’. Because my job is woefully under classified switching to industry doesn’t fall under any conflict of interest, lobbying, etc clauses.
Onto the question at hand, do I just email all my contacts from my personal email and say “Hey you mentioned you’d like to hire me, I’m looking, let’s chat?”. I’m not really used to the schmoozy part of hiring since government is technical. Do I take a softer approach and say I’d like to chat then drop it while we’re talking? Most of these conversations will need to happen virtually as it’s a very global industry.
Random question I was discussing with friends (especially if you have kids, but not necessarily): when are you “truly” living your life? I guess I’ve been under the assumption that “real” life is who I was before kids and who I will be after they leave the house, that these 20+ years are just a pause while I focus on duty and family. But I can see how that would be the reverse for a lot of other people — they love family life/parenting whatever and those are their “truest” years and retirement feels a bit empty. Which are you?
I don’t get the question? Ideally one can live in the moment, rather than in the past. Living for the future doesn’t really make sense either – I mean, of course, save for retirement, but thinking that life is “on hold” until some future date is kind of sad, too.
I was truly living my life prior to having kids, while having/raising kids, and now, after the kids are grown and flown. I don’t think I’ve had part of my life that wasn’t real life. While in the midst of raising kids — especially the heavy lifting early years and the heavy lifting teen years — I had less time to look around, take a deep breath, and appreciate the tiny moments of life, but it was still real life.
I think this is a very odd question. What does ‘truest’ mean? I’m a mom of two in elementary. while it is sometimes a pain in the neck and i miss the days of sleeping until noon, but I’ve always wanted to be a mom and it’s currently a significant part of my identity/life