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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honest question from an artsy teacher who loves her work but admits that it pays crummily:  Why is this work appealing to anyone except for the salary?  If I were a lawyer I'd want to work for the ACLU or be a public defender, something like that.  [/quote]

My work never ceases to be intellectually challenging.  I work with the smartest people I have ever met, both those senior to me and those junior to me.  I help people with their problems.  Some of those people are pro bono -- immigrants, people facing eviction.  Some of those people run big companies.  But even the biggest corporate case involves people with problems that I get to help solve.  I am in litigation so there is also the satisfaction of competition and winning, and the personal challenge of standing up in court or facing a witness in a deposition.  The things I work on often have impact in the real world beyond the two sides to the case.

The money's good too.[/quote]. Perhaps you have forgotten your early years of document review.  I wish they had out sourced that work when I was a baby lawyer.  Are you one of those lawyers who thinks his/her client is always on the side of the angels?  I help my clients with thier problem, but will admit that what is good for my client is not always good for the public at large.[/quote]

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