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Why so many hours for so little money? |
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True, but...... |
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03/19/2006 |
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Just anyone who works at any of the big firms in NYC. 80-90 hr weeks doing "research" and writing briefs are commonplace.
Very few cases ever get tried in front of a judge or jury anymore so you can forget about getting that type of experience.
Oh and the turnover - its not too different from a Big 4 audit firm either. Good luck to you. |
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Personally I think NYC Biglaw is not the route to go. The people who do it are the same types who end up at Big 4 firms. They get caught up in the idea of "prestige" and end up doing more work for less money(although in this case, NYC tends to pay a bit more, the "less money" comes in when you consider the insane cost of living there). I went to the Texas office of a NYC based firm. Living in Texas is dirt cheap, yet the payscale is the same as the NYC office, so I feel like it's really great for building net worth. There is probably less chance of making partner, but I really just care about milking this associate salary as long as I can.
So far I've been working an average of 60 hours a week. My best week was roughly 50 hours, and I had one rough week where I put in about 80. It doesn't seem any worse than what I've heard about Big 4.
Also, I don't really care about being inside a courtroom. I do transactional work because I wanted to get SOME advantage from my accounting degrees.
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