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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m the PP who works with a lot of big law teams but isn’t a lawyer.

I get the impression, by and large, these people are mostly happy, work a ton, motivated by their work  (and motivated that their work makes money).  I think the more likely unicorn is the 10M/Yr partner who is consumed by work and only a rainmaker bc he/she is always grinding.  I think the average story is one of a busy professional who is doing slightly more hours than the standard higher powered DC job, achieves a passable work/life balance, etc. times have changed, most of the big attorneys I know truly value family time, vacation, etc.  Millennials have been law firm partners for a few years now.  COVID happened.  There are different values in play than 10 years ago.

It’s still a high stress, demanding, very busy, long hour lifestyle, but I don’t think the standard story is one of a movie character who is totally checked out and home and always working and on the phone and is just money grubbing and always looking for a bigger and bigger paycheck.  [/quote]

No one is saying that. But these guys are working on vacation, logging in most nights after dinner for more than just to “check emails”, and definitely are not coaching sports or sharing an equal load at home. In fact, on other threads that are about SAH with teenagers, these same wives all insist they “must” keep staying home because of the demands of her husbands “big job.” They are just playing both sides of the fiddle. [/quote]

I said earlier that I only work 30-40hrs a week.  That’s still true, but I also am accessible 100% of the time and definitely have work bleed into home time in the evenings, on weekends and holidays.  But it’s not impossible to balance nor does work consume me.  I think big law partners do more hours of that, but there’s a ton of space between me and totally consumed by work and I think most of what I see from biglaw is closer to me on the spectrum than it is to “completely consumed”[/quote]

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