Reply to Anyone in biglaw get a pay cut?

Forum Index » Jobs and Careers

Reply to "Anyone in biglaw get a pay cut?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cutting out the large re-post block.

The law is a business, and just like any other, the employees aren't going to get treated the same way as shareholders.  If you think like a business person when you're an associate, you have a much better chance of making partner.  Or, more likely, you'll recognize far, far earlier what a racket big law firms are and use your firm more than it uses you.

For example, long before Covid-19, I knew an associate who wanted to travel to far-flung locations like Bali, Japan, Patagonia, and similarly high-travel cost places.  He volunteered to do document review and other menial work on-site in cities all over the U.S. and the world.  Very few associates wanted to travel to North Dakota during the winter, or West Texas during the summer - but he did it.  1M+ frequent flyer miles plus hotel points, he would take vacations worth $10k+ while other associates were spending their own $$$ on bar tabs, dinners out, etc...[/quote]

Cool story bro

Your lame doc reviewer pal most certainly did not make partner [/quote]

Yeah, former biglaw litigation associate here and I don't believe this.  Nobody volunteers to do tank their career by doing doc review forever just for vacation points.  And at some point you become far too expensive to spend countless hours on doc review.  There are cheap, local contract attorneys for that.[/quote]

This makes even a tiny amount on sense only for someone who wants to spend 1-3 years in Biglaw to pay back loans and not a second more.  Even then, you are going to have a hard time finding the next thing if you did mostly doc review.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics