biglaw 6 months in: what's all the bitching about?
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Date: March 22nd, 2012 10:16 PM Author: Aggressive 180 address
Have been billing an average of 45 hours a week, worst week was 60, have run cases with moderate supervision, have had lots of client contact (dinners/etc)
So what's all the bitching about?
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Date: March 22nd, 2012 10:56 PM Author: disgusting bateful temple party of the first part
This is how I felt around that time in the beginning. Give yourself another year. You'll either ramp up to an undesirable level, or you'll get fired.
Also, so many of the stupid annoying aspects of law and partners' idiosyncrasies that you don't even notice yet will start to eat at you.
While I agree that most people are whiny, you will definitely start to enter the suck.
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Date: March 24th, 2012 8:20 AM Author: dun metal meetinghouse
CR. I was a former BigLawyer, jumped ship to a boutique. Love it ever since. People are chill and the hours (while almost the same as BigLaw on a normal day) do not seem that bad. It is normal for associates or partners to bail at lik 3 pm if they are finished with their work or just want to catch a game.
The work is not as complex as the stuff I was handling at my old firm, but it is still very interesting. I guess BigLaw did prepare me for something.
The pay drop was the biggest difference. I am in the low six-figures, but the bonuses can be pretty good(according to some people).
Edit: This boutique has a few BigLaw refugees.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1905174&forum_id=2#20283005) |
Date: March 22nd, 2012 10:39 PM Author: Splenetic site persian
1st year is a joke.
it gets much, much worse with time.
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Date: March 23rd, 2012 6:49 PM Author: floppy opaque brunch headpube Subject: I totally get this
I've said this before, but here it goes again. Working at a big law firm (or any demanding job) is like making it through a very long winter (think Canada). It isn't like there are too many single days where you say, "I just can't handle this." You put on a jacket, hat, gloves and suck it up. Even bad weeks are manageable. But when you deal with the bitter cold from early November to late March, it just gets to you at the end. You start getting the quivalent of "life cabin fever" and it isn't so easy to stay until midnight, or work another weekend, or deal with some stupid false deadline.
And I am talking from experience here. My first 6 months (after stub) I billed like 1400 hours and even then I thought it was fairly manageable. I've billed less and less every year. And I've seen some real high billers that I thought were gunning for partner just decide one day that they didn't want to do it any longer.
Inevitably, some people choose to continue on and do in fact make partner. To each their own and good luck to them. But to say that biglaw isn't that hard based on the first six months of the job is fairly silly. See if you feel the same way after your 5th year and, if you keep going, after your second year as a partner.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1905174&forum_id=2#20279057)
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Date: March 23rd, 2012 7:15 PM Author: dead nursing home
Wouldn't it then be advisable, if non-1st year work is such a chore to then work there a year and then move on to greener pastures? Using the name of your employer as a springboard?
Maybe you could even be a "community organizer" and go on to be president.
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Date: March 24th, 2012 8:56 AM Author: Laughsome multi-billionaire
how is this flame getting serious responses?
if you are "running" cases as a first year, you are not working in biglaw.
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