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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are lots of variations of BigLOL. I am still a partner in biglaw, but managed to sort of scoot myself into a second tier of firm. I bring in a decent amount of work, don't bill a ton of my own hours, but still bring in enough overall to avoid the hatchet man. Live my life with my family, and manage to do rad shit in the free time I create for myself.

The main thing I realized just before the pandemic is that the emergencies are dumb. Genuinely. I don't tolerate that shit anymore. [b]And if a client tries that stunt with me, I just don't work with them anymore. [/b]

All this takes a certain amount tolerance for compensation adjustment. So, we have the same lifestyle we did when I was an associate. When I am 80 years old, I am definitely not going to wish I worked more for more comp, and will instead remember fondly the time I spent with my family or the fact that I did a ton of stuff all the losers around me never had time to do. Spending time working a useless white collar biglaw job instead of your actual life is extremely stupid and counterproductive to the human experience. [/quote]

Unless you are very niche, there are 20 other firms that are virtually indistinguishable from yours full of lawyers happy to treat every request as an emergency [/quote]

The funny thing is you are writing this while thinking it’s some sort of revelation.

Here’s the thing, a lot of in house lawyers that give out work that are my age (early 40s) have the same attitude I do. The reason is they had to deal with broken gen X personalities whose goal in life is to figure out how to ruin their personal life as quickly as possible-turning every possible thing into a maximum bill opportunity and an emergency. Who do you think they like to work with?

To each their own. I’m keeping my ship floating. And yes, I am somewhat niche in that I’m not doing general lit, but not all that niche. [/quote]

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