I’m Asian American and I don’t care… But I’m also full pay and not looking for a free ride. |
The most successful lawyer I know went to Suffolk law and graduated with gentleman's Cs. His practice is basically a referral service now and he easily makes as much as any biglaw partner while working a couple of hours a week. |
There are lower law schools than Suffolk! |
As a parent, I thought I was paying FOR A QUALITY EDUCATION (not for "prestige"). But then again, I don't walk around the world seeking external signs of validation. |
+1 |
Yes, dear, because you think it was a book about an architect. |
Yep. Being a rainmaker is about doing a lot of soft work and a lot of delegating. Whereas, when you're junior associate you're in a pool with a number of people who are just as bright and diligent and smart as you. What cases you're assigned, what partners you work with, the outcome of cases... Most of that isn't under your control. Quite a lot of it has to do with your future with the firm. And everyone is working hard. Everyone. Assuming hard work and brains are the default setting, which I do at the top firms, quite a lot of the rest is your lottery ticket. Now, it's also true that a lot of people decide they don't want to keep playing that lottery because "winning" is just more work and another round of culls. Like I said, some of us don't want to set our kids up to play "Hunger Games" for their entire lives. Some of us raise them with other values. You don't have to understand, it's not like you have the free time to raise yours at all. |
They're not identical but they are probably pretty correlated. |