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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m jealous of their money. Not jealous of their spouses. Most of my law school classmates who stayed in big law are honestly the most obnoxious and insufferable people I know. [/quote]

+1 I think it takes a huge ego to make it in big law. Would be tough to be married to that.[/quote]

+1 and they think they work harder and are more important than anyone in the whole wide world. I have never met people who complain about work more than big law attorneys. You would think they were working in a coal mine. Could not be married to that, especially if I were single-handedly shouldering 95% of the parenting, which is basically a given. I will take my and my DH's middling but adequate non-profit pay any day. [/quote]

OK but your post is off.  Yes they think they work harder because they do.  Your coal mine example is nonsense.  Yes I would rather be a Biglaw Partner than a coal miner.  Of course.  But the Biglaw Partner is working way more hours at a much higher stress level for bigger stakes.   And they are more important that most people.  And today in 2024 who gives 95% of the parenting to the stay at home wife?  Almost no one including Biglaw partners.  Is it more than 50% on the wife?  Sure.  But most Biglaw partners are pretty heavily involved in children's lives.  This is not 1970 or 1980.  [/quote]

[b]Do you truly think a big law partner is "important than most people?[/b]" Gross. Unless you count paying for stuff as parenting, I absolutely know people whose big law DHs do almost no parenting. Let's say 90% is on the wife. I am thinking of a dad who does not see his kids in the morning, does no shuttling around weekday evenings, doesn't eat dinner with his kids, and never puts them to bed. Maybe he takes them to soccer on Saturday but works half the weekend. You really think this isn't happening?

I see posts here about it every other week! [/quote]

Do most people argue cases before the Supreme Court? Do most people negotiate multi billion dollar deals? Do most people receive $3000 per hour to think about things and give advice?

What planet are you on? Yes, big law attorneys do important work. That's why other people are willing to pay them millions of dollars. [/quote] NP and in biglaw myself — let’s not conflate capitalistic necessary evils or per hour payment with importance. [b]The vast majority of big law attorneys, myself included, are not doing work that is important or contributing positively to the world in a meaningful way. [/b][/quote]

Most people are not doing work that is important. Is the group of big law partners doing work that is, on the whole, less important than what normal people do for work? Give me a break.

Regarding your take on capitalism, why do big law attorneys get paid big if the client didn't think the work was important? Cuz the client hates having money?[/quote]

They get paid an amount of money that is less than what the corporation would lose otherwise. Generally speaking, a corporation’s loss in profits, aka less money that multi millionaires and billionaires would get, does not seem all that important to me. There are different applications of this scenario depending on big law speciality / fields, but all in all, very few are doing work that is “important.” [/quote]

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