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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's Saturday and I'm up at 430 am.  The stock purchase agreement is coming in from Hong Kong and we are having a call at 5 am so we can review changes and assign tasks. We have to get the draft back to to opposing counsel by5 pm today. [/quote]

I used to be an Ibanker. We would have meeting until 10 pm discussing commercial terms of SPA agreements with client/ lawyers etc. We would leave and arrange to meet at 8 am the next day. We expected the lawyers to turn around the documents overnight and have it ready by then! And we got paid more. 
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Good for you!  Want a cookie?[/quote]

I think these stories are somewhat apocryphal.  I did similar corporate work for many years and nobody ever treated me like this.  Maybe Bain, KKR, TPG are just nicer folks than their bankers?  I do know of one associate in another group that quit because she had some weird asshole like you calling her all the time, but it's not that common.

Anyways I practiced out of Boston not NYC so maybe that helped.  I could see doing my old job again if I lived close to work and had no kids.  But family in the suburbs?  No way.

Anyways I feel like a lot of lawyers dig their own grave.  If you can convince folks to pay you $250 an hour (way less than your going rate) and hustle up 1000 hours a year, you can work from home with no boss and live well.  But the townhouse in DuPont phenomenon is real and people get themselves stuck.

At this point with $$ in the bank and two kids, if I was fired from myuch more reasonable job, I'd sell my suburban SFH, buy a townhouse in cash (in Philly probably, but somewhere like Olney could work if I wanted to stay in DC area) and start my own shit.  Why the #%^ should some other lawyer get a cut of my labor?[/quote]

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