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How is Biglaw really? |
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Serious comments? |
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07/19/2001 |
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Considering all the horror-stories about biglaw, is there anybody out there that is actually happy in Biglaw?
I do want to have a fast-paced, interesting, and competitive job in which I can have an above-average salary. In high school, college, and (now) law school, I have always been willing to work more than others, and that will not change once I start work. But that does not mean that I wany to sacrifice my entire life, health, and happiness to my job and the money I get paid!
Considering that so many intelligent people go into Biglaw, I simply cannot imagine that all of them are just greedy people that sacrifice everything to work.
Only serious comments please. |
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<<< Only serious comments please. >>>
After reading the other posts in ths forum you expect "only serious comments"? Ha ha.
(1) Read the book by Cameron Stracher. (The author spends the whole book complaining about something, but I have a hard time figuring out what.)
(2) Talk to real BIGLAW associates. If you don't have the networking skills to arrange real meetings with real BIGLAW associates, then you don't have what it takes to find a good job in law (unless you go to a top 14 school where you can get hired based on the prestige of your school and not your networking skills).
(3) I suspect that the happy BIGLAW associates are too busy working to bother posting messages here about how much they like their jobs.
(4) The only BIGLAW/ex BIGLAW associate I know didn't like it, but I don't think he likes anything becaue he's not a happy person.
(5) How can I have graduated from law school and know so few BIGLAW associates? (a) hardly anyone from my law school made it to BIGLAW; and (b) those on law review formed their own social clique that excluded everyone else.
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