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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I sit on the prof. development committee of my firm.  Over the last few years, there's been a ton of griping there (as well as on boards such as this one) about new associates - how they aren't willing to make the sacrifices we made, think they're all special snowflakes, etc.

As someone who has been through that, I can't help but think they've got it right.  What exactly is the value proposition for new associates these days? Spend your 20s accumulating the best possible credentials you can (and paying through the nose for them), work your ass off for 3-6 years at a firm, and then scratch and claw for a new job (at often a 100k paycut) when the wrong partner makes your life unbearable or the firm tells you have to leave?

The problem, in my mind, is not that law firm life is hard - that's a given.  It's more that most people don't get anything out of it that justifies the sacrifice demanded.  You get paid a lot while you're here, but that paycheck only lasts for a trivial amount of time for most lawyers.   [/quote]

I find it hard to believe you sit on the prof dev committee at a big law firm and are whining like the above. 
My bet is you are a millennial with a law degree, posing as god knows what in your post. 
Might help you to look around, there ARE people in their 20s and 30s working very hard at startups, consulting, banking, private equity, law, phd programs, in-house corp dev/M&A, etc. And they will run circles around whomever is spending their time doing nothing and complaining. Seriously, go sit in on the start up guys at 1776 or Disruption and sing your "I'm lost" song and see what happens. Do it. [/quote]

Not too hard to believe.  There are a lot of lawyers (young and old) that are dissatisfied with the recent changes in the legal profession and in Biglaw specifically.  There are issues that affect older lawyers (de-equitizations, etc.) and issues that affect younger lawyers (very little training and mentoring these days).  
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