My client is finishing her 1L year. She’s bored. “I study. Then I study some more. Then I go to sleep. Then I get up and study again. It’s the same for everyone.” At least, I proposed, the subject matter was interesting. She demurred. “Yeah, I guess…but – really? I mean…Property law? Contracts? Torts?” Her [...]
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Oversold
Posted in AboveTheLaw series, tagged Antonin Scalia, commercial outlines, Con Law, Fashion Police, first tier law school, fourth tier law school, international human rights law, John Roberts, law school, law school exams, Property Law, Socratic Method, study groups, Torts on April 25, 2012 | 30 Comments »
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 »
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 [...]
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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