At some point you have to get out of here. The question is when – and whither. A vacation might help, if you could achieve the impossible and take one. My client pulled off a week – seven whole days! – at a Caribbean resort, only to return feeling like a condemned prisoner. “It made [...]
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Frying pan
Posted in AboveTheLaw series, tagged associate satisfaction, associate satisfaction surveys, changing law firms, emergency childcare, headhunters, law school on January 18, 2012 | 23 Comments »
A Radio Reunion
Posted in Radio, tagged associate, biglaw, law school, Steven Spierer, Talk Radio One on November 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Last February I appeared on Steven Spierer’s radio show, and he brought on a caller, Matt, who had just started work at a big New York City law firm. You can listen to that interview here. Now – 9 months later – I went back on Steven’s show, and caught up with Matt, and heard [...]
The Haves and The Have-nots
Posted in AboveTheLaw series, tagged aptitude, begging, Caste system, Dalit, Gambia, Heidi Klum, hunger, intestinal parasites, job offer, Latvian, law jobs, law school, LSAT, maritime law, Oxfam, perma-debt, poverty, Riga, Shearman & Sterling, Sullivan & Cromwell, summer programs, Untouchables on November 9, 2011 | 80 Comments »
It’s mid-September. I’m talking with a client , a 3L at a top-tier school. “Here’s how it works,” she explains. “There’s the have’s and the have-nots. Either you have a job offer, or you don’t. If you don’t, it sucks. You feel like an illegal alien.” Unfortunately, she’s a have-not. Yes, she’s working to correct [...]
Not Horrible
Posted in AboveTheLaw series, tagged headhunter, junior associate, law school, law school loans on March 23, 2011 | 102 Comments »
I asked a client how things were going at work – or not-going. She’s a junior at a big firm where it’s been dead slow for the whole year she’s been there and partners are starting to flee. “Not horrible,” she said. That’s a not-uncommon sentiment from to people in her position. As a junior, [...]
No longer in Kansas
Posted in AboveTheLaw series, tagged Adderall, ADHD, CLE classes, Erie Rules, Klonopin, law school, Legal Ethics, NYU Law, Zoloft on October 20, 2010 | 27 Comments »
There’s one thing every lawyer, no matter how miserable, seems to agree on: law school wasn’t that bad. In fact, it was kind of fun. Things take a nosedive when you get to a firm. That’s when you start hating life. Maybe we should take a look at this phenomenon, and ask ourselves why this [...]
Magical thinking
Posted in AboveTheLaw series, tagged anti-depressant medication, CBT, cognitive behavioral therapy, law school, law school ranking, student loans on September 22, 2010 | 52 Comments »
So many cases like this appear at my office that I’ll construct him/her as a composite. That way perhaps I can spare myself the chore of receiving those “how dare you write about one of your clients” comments that I receive every week when I get specific in detailing my fictions and some of you [...]
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