Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Law Students Building a Better Legal Profession
It seems that a few Stanford Law students want to change the world, and more power to them. In essence, they're calling for the AmLaw 100 law firms (read: BigLaw) to ratify a document that undermines the pyramid scheme that fuels our profession. And they even want less money. Crazy, huh?
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Blas-PHEEEEE-mers!
The WSJ blog responses get it just about right. Nobody *has* to become a lawyer and work at "biglaw." If you do not like it, don't do it. Period.
Especially the last part Anon. Those with the opportunity to go to a BigLaw also have opportunities a lot of other places.
I think they just want to work less. Some people actually do not mind working 60 hour weeks. Myself included.
Also, big law rejects applications by the dozen (hundred?) per each slot received. So, if a handful of people say no...there are 50 handfuls that will say "pick me!"
Unfortunately, a lot of you biglawyers won't realize your life disappeared before you've reached 50 and only have a nice bank account to look at. Learn from those that have gone before.
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