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[quote=Anonymous]There are a lot of really great BigLaw attorneys in this town. I know this because I've worked for several. I posted at 14:27 on the 24th.

It's possible that the OP works for a jerk. Those exist too. I know this because I've worked for them as well. I also know that the lifestyle I'm accustomed to at $55,000/year is pretty different from the lifestyle my boss is used to at $500,000/year.

One of the things that has always bothered me about the culture of the firms I've been in was sort of mentioned by the BigLaw associate above. Compensation (at least in the two firms I've worked in here) is only partially dependent on your actual job performance. At my previous firm, only 50% of my review came from the attorneys I work for directly. The other 50% came from HR and was based on things like attendance and willingness to help out with projects assigned to/by the admin department itself. The woman who wrote that 50% of my review was someone I saw maybe 10 times a year in the coffee room plus my review meeting. She did not have a good understanding of what the daily responsibilities of my job were. Given that, she didn't really understand the times when I did truly go above and beyond the call of duty. I could show up to work 50 weeks of the year, on time, and as far as they were concerned, that was all that mattered. There were other admins who would show up 50 weeks a year, on time, and sit around and shop on the internet while other people did their work for them, and they'd get the same glowing review from HR and the same 3% raise that those of us who were doing their work for them would get. It was not a fair compensation structure, and is one of the reasons I left that firm.

I always appreciated the glowing reviews that my attorneys gave me at that firm, but I also understood that those reviews were pretty much meaningless. The incentives to do an amazing job instead of an acceptable one were not high. [/quote]

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