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[quote=Anonymous]FFS.

Do people understand nothing? I remember growing up my mother disparaged my aunt for driving a Cadillac. In my family that was considered unforgivingly flashy. But my aunt worked as a real estate agent in Dallas, and drove people around all weekend looking at homes in the Park Cities. She almost had to drive a Cadillac.

Law firm partners are in sales. It's a sales job. Being a "hard worker" or a really talented lawyer is not what it is about. Being highly skilled and working hard are (generally speaking) necessary but not sufficient for partnership in a big/well-regarded firm. And in sales jobs appearances are almost everything. What the necessary appearance is will vary, though -- it greatly depends on whether you are a partner in trusts and estates at white shoe firm vs a partner in litigation at Skadden vs everything in between. And if you don't understand why everything is "in between" those two, well, then you don't understand. At all.

It isn't about the car. Or the club memberships. It's about being the kind of person who drives that kind of car or who belongs to that kind of club. And that white shoe firm trusts and estates attorney probably drives a different car than that crim litigation partner at Skadden. They dress differently, they speak differently, and they do not entertain clients at the same restaurants.

Yes, "culture" is extremely important. But most on this thread do not seem to grasp the subtleties at play -- to the extent that you might as well still be in a studio apt driving a 2005 Jetta. [/quote]

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