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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Retired Big Law partner here.  All I can say is that in all of my years I have never - not once - met anyone who left Big Law who regretted the decision to leave any reason other than they’re now making less money.

Current Big Law lawyers will now pipe in and say either it’s not so bad or that it’s actually great and they love it.  And that’s fine.  But, again, they haven’t actually left so they really can’t know.

In my view, the biggest problem with big law isn’t necessarily the long hours, high stress, and ridiculous expectations that often come your way. [b]It’s that it is with you, always. Even when you’re not working, you’re feeling like you need to be or you should be.  It’s just always a huge part of your identity.  [/b]At least that was my experience.

I don’t regret having done it, but only because of the money. I sure made a lot of it and it made retiring early very easy.[/quote]

This is the case for most of us. It’s a lawyer thing, not a Big law thing. I don’t make big law money because I went straight from ls to DOJ via the honors program. Plenty of my cases end up written up in the NYT or Wall Street Journal. Most nights I wake up in the middle of the night thinking about a case.[/quote]

This FinReg 40-hr week lawyer says … nah! I’ve never in my career had to do anything remotely as stressful as my BigLaw friends. of course they are rich and I am not, but I think I’d be dead if I had their jobs. I think about my job on the weekends but only because it is interesting. [/quote]

Yes, well— you have a point. My Division has plenty of deadweight as well. Just like you. [/quote]

unless you think litigation is the only possible way to practice law, you have no idea what you’re talking about. Sorry you chose a miserable career path, likely built on prioritizing prestige over what you actually cared about or enjoyed. [/quote]

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