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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Big Law has changed SIGNIFICANTLY since your dad worked at a law firm when you were a child. Most "big law" partners in their 60s and 70s would not want to be lawyers again if they had to start over today. Salaries were much more on par back then with other professionals (i.e., salaries were lower), but the culture and lifestyle were much more family-friendly.[/quote] I was born in the late '80s, so I'm talking late '80s, early '90s when we was working as a lawyer in private practice when I was a child. [b]The culture of firms in the '80s and '90s, from what I can tell, is not significantly different from now. [/b] He's still working in a large law firm where he is now partner. I agree that much of his flexibility/ability to go on vacation for 2 weeks, etc. stems from the fact that he is already a partner and has contacts, and is a pretty hot shot in his area of law and has been working for decades, etc. He certainly couldn't do that when I was younger. But in the late '80s, he DEFINITELY was able to provide back up care when I was sick and take a conference call from home when he was an associate. At that point, he was at a San Francisco firm, so maybe things were more progressive on the west coast, I dunno. His current firm (and his current colleague) is the partner who is able to work from home so she can avoid the commute/save money on childcare with her small children. Her kids are toddlers and elementary school age. Some firms have made a push to make things more "family friendly" in recent years, allowing working from home as long as the hours are billed. He told me it is definitely more difficult to get away with less face time as a man, though. However, I'm not talking about the '60s/'70s. My dad was born in 1954, so in 1960 he would have been 6 years old! He wasn't even done with law school until the '80s![/quote] Please refrain from ever talking about law firms as if you know anything, as the bolded statement makes it completely clear that you know absolutely nothing. The culture of law firms has changed dramatically even since when I started at a firm in 2002. What you are saying is similar to saying that cars in the 1920s are not significantly different from current cars. Do you understand that you are talking about a time in which there was no internet?????[/quote]
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