What are the positive aspects of Biglaw - besides salary?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 1:05 pm
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Re: What are the positive aspects of Biglaw - besides salary?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 1:08 pm
Exit options
Re: What are the positive aspects of Biglaw - besides salary?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 1:11 pm
Re: What are the positive aspects of Biglaw - besides salary?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 1:12 pm
Free cheese plates when new hours requirements are announced.
Re: What are the positive aspects of Biglaw - besides salary?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 1:27 pm
one cheese per associate, pleaseWinter is Coming wrote:Free cheese plates when new hours requirements are announced.
Re: What are the positive aspects of Biglaw - besides salary?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 1:31 pm
Impressing family friends.
Re: What are the positive aspects of Biglaw - besides salary?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 2:08 pm
More job options down the line - it opens a lot of doors.
Opportunity to do high level work (though you can also get this elsewhere, not just in biglaw).
Opportunity to do high level work (though you can also get this elsewhere, not just in biglaw).
Re: What are the positive aspects of Biglaw - besides salary?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 2:11 pm
i think the most obvious one is models and bottles
Re: What are the positive aspects of Biglaw - besides salary?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 2:21 pm
Abbie Doobie wrote:i think the most obvious one is models and bottles
Re: What are the positive aspects of Biglaw - besides salary?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 2:42 pm
Free drinks and snacks.
Re: What are the positive aspects of Biglaw - besides salary?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 2:44 pm
awwww yeaaaaaAbbie Doobie wrote:i think the most obvious one is models and bottles
Re: What are the positive aspects of Biglaw - besides salary?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 2:47 pm
You can afford the anti-depressants the job caused you to need.
Re: What are the positive aspects of Biglaw - besides salary?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 2:50 pm
The biggest positive, other than loan money, is learning that this sort of work > everything lifestyle is definitely not for me and to chill with the ambitious get rich professions and concentrate on just building a better, happier life
Re: What are the positive aspects of Biglaw - besides salary?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 3:00 pm
no matter how shitty your home life becomes, biglaw makes it feel better
Re: What are the positive aspects of Biglaw - besides salary?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 3:22 pm
Any other job that comes after it seems much easier and much less stressful.
Re: What are the positive aspects of Biglaw - besides salary?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 3:44 pm
Besides salary? The bonus.
Re: What are the positive aspects of Biglaw - besides salary?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 4:08 pm
You save money on shampoo due to stress-induced hair loss.
Re: What are the positive aspects of Biglaw - besides salary?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 4:15 pm
Free dinners if you work late, so pretty much every night.
Re: What are the positive aspects of Biglaw - besides salary?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 4:33 pm
i hate being a lawyer but I do realize I am fortunate to work with some really smart people. Its nice to be the dumbest person in the room.
Re: What are the positive aspects of Biglaw - besides salary?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 4:34 pm
My parents friends are impressed by the local billboard attorneys who went to Stetson. They've never heard of the firm I work for.zot1 wrote:Impressing family friends.
Re: What are the positive aspects of Biglaw - besides salary?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 4:35 pm
+1Abbie Doobie wrote:i think the most obvious one is models and bottles
Re: What are the positive aspects of Biglaw - besides salary?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 4:43 pm
This. Not necessarily feeling like the dumbest person around. But the level of competency among co-workers at my law firm is the highest I have ever had. And I worked several professional before law school and then worked at other places during law school that just had some lazy and/or dumb people. Not the case at my big law firm.Anonymous User wrote:I hate being a lawyer but I do realize I am fortunate to work with some really smart people. Its nice to be the dumbest person in the room.
I also like the occasional opportunity to use the firm perks like sporting events when partners can't go with clients. Otherwise it is mostly the salary
Re: What are the positive aspects of Biglaw - besides salary?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 4:55 pm
I'm sure they'd be impressed if they knew how much you made.Anonymous User wrote:My parents friends are impressed by the local billboard attorneys who went to Stetson. They've never heard of the firm I work for.zot1 wrote:Impressing family friends.
Re: What are the positive aspects of Biglaw - besides salary?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 5:28 pm
Plenty of the guys on the billboards make a hell of a lot more.zot1 wrote:I'm sure they'd be impressed if they knew how much you made.Anonymous User wrote:My parents friends are impressed by the local billboard attorneys who went to Stetson. They've never heard of the firm I work for.zot1 wrote:Impressing family friends.
Re: What are the positive aspects of Biglaw - besides salary?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 5:29 pm
Yeah I hear those torts lawyers make a killing. There's a reason why they're reviled as "ambulance chasers."RaceJudicata wrote:Plenty of the guys on the billboards make a hell of a lot more.zot1 wrote:I'm sure they'd be impressed if they knew how much you made.Anonymous User wrote:My parents friends are impressed by the local billboard attorneys who went to Stetson. They've never heard of the firm I work for.zot1 wrote:Impressing family friends.