Reply to Biglaw partnership: generational shift or misinformation?

Forum Index » Jobs and Careers

Reply to "Biglaw partnership: generational shift or misinformation? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is interesting how great law school (and Big Law) is with marketing.  Even on LinkedIn, you see law school students announcing being chosen for X Big Law firm, usually accompanied about how Big Law Firm X has a great reputation for pro bono.  Which seems odd that anyone entering Big Law would view any type of pro bono marketing as legitimate.

Two thoughts:

1. It is interesting how, of all professions, lawyers are often the most emotional/not reading the fine print of the profession.  With vague goals of international or entertainment law, and just seeing the top percentage of salaries of graduates, many of us sort of choose this huge decision so casually.

2.  It is interesting the argument about "I do Big Law to pay off loans".  With PSLF, and student loan programs, if someone really wants to be a lawyer, wouldn't it be make more sense and be more rewarding to do government work from day 1?  And wouldn't you develop more in government with real experience than the doc review tasks of Big Law?[/quote]

Re:1, completely agree.

Re: 2, disagree on both points. PSLF etc is only for Federal loans, but most people need private loans as well. I graduated 20 years ago and I had $60k of each, the private ones at a high variable interest rate. 
Also government is typically not interested in hiring new grads or training them, and what training they do provide is technical not professional. I credit my biglaw years for my success in government, and when I was a manager in government my worst employees were the "govies since graduation" who were technically knowledgeable but didn't understand how to work with clients or "get to yes" or spot new work to do when things were slow.

BTW, not wanting to be a partner was a thing 20 years ago but, as someone else said, if you were serious you left after 4 or 5 years, not after getting to the threshold.[/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