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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Saying big law a lot is also a weird flag. The people at the top firms are not generically saying "I work in big law" just like a Harvard grad isn't going around saying "I went to an Ivy League school." There are huge variations in prestige (and $$) based on the firm and practice area. Some positions would make people far more envious too. 
Money and lifestyle wise, I'd be more jealous of PE or VC spouses or of doc spouses where the specialty is lucrative with easy hours. [/quote]

Lawyer here. I’ve never heard this term used outside of Internet forums. [/quote]

I’m trying to remember how the partners identify themselves. I’m pretty sure they just they work in law or they are a lawyer. It is isn’t like they say im a partner at a biglaw firm.

Pretty sure the SAHMs of the really successful biglaw partners just say their husbands are lawyers. You go to their homes and know they must make $$$$.[/quote]

I’m a lawyer. And I just say I’m a lawyer. If there is a follow up question I will say where.

My DH just says “I work for the government” because he hates it when people brag about being a lawyer, and his job is relatively high profile. If people follow up, he’ll just say he is a lawyer. You have to pry it out of him to find out where and his title. When people ask what my DH does, I just say he’s a lawyer.

What these wives with no career of their own are out here bragging about with regard to their spouse’s jobs is another matter altogether, though, lol. My female lawyer friends from law school, and some work friends as well, have been laughing at “the wives” for a long time (actually we usually call them “the mommies” and when they have a kid we call the kids “Mommy’s little insurance policy’).[/quote]

I was actually saying the opposite. The women of the very successful men don’t boast about their husbands at all. I don’t think being a lawyer is brag worthy in this town. The pay of the lawyers obviously vary greatly. I’m sure your husband has a great sounding job but he isn’t making $$$ being a government worker.[/quote]

The woman of very successful men. Sounds so1950s.  Do we live in different worlds? [/quote]

Lawyers are so boring. Their knowledge base is so narrow.  I once went to a law school party of a friend's and it is the most boring party ever. The know no physics, fine arts, music, history, and other cultures. Just watch some stupid baseball games. [/quote]

Found the unemployed loser who incorrectly imagines themself to the right of the bell...[/quote]

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