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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are in a V100 firm and bring in between $3-4 million a year how much would you expect to be paid? [/quote]

I am an attorney but not big law - genuine question: shouldn't you know how much you will be paid? or at least have an idea? is this someone speculating about someone else's salary?[/quote]

I'm guessing OP is a wife who thinks her husband should be making more.[/quote]

A lot of these big law compensation threads seem to be wives trying to understand how much money their man can/should make. The implication is that they need or covet more. Gross. [/quote]

I am a big law wife and you couldn't be more wrong. I don't know a single partner's wife who doesn't work.[/quote]

I'm a partner's wife who doesn't work and I'd say probably 1/3 of my husband's fellow partners (and associates who have children) have a non-working spouse. Or some will "teach preschool 3 mornings a week" or teach yoga a few hours a week or something like that. [/quote]

Thus 2/3 of the partners wives (the majority) work. [/quote]

Yes. But that’s vastly different from saying you literally don’t know any partner’s wives who don’t work. Absurd.[/quote]

I mean that's my lived experience. Do you think I know every single partner at the firm or even in the practice group? I know about ten and they all work. Thus "I don't know a single partner's wife who doesn't work". I never said they don't exist. [/quote]

Also, I'd like to contextualize my point. I was responding to the misogynistic nonsense that big law wives sit on their asses and count their husband's money all day. This couldn't be further from my personal experience. The wives I know all have graduate degrees and successful careers of their own. This isn't the 1950s with lawyers marrying their secretaries who then quit. Assortative mating is the norm. [/quote]

And the kids suffer as a result.  You left that part out.[/quote]

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