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Caveat: Be sure it’s really a 40-hour workweek. This is a common way to sell a lifestyle firm, but if it lacks basic resources like paralegals and a document management system (for example), it will be more hours and hassle, with fewer exit options.
And also be sure that you’re doing the exact same type of work. For example, on week one: do not tell me that I’ll continue working on transactional deals, then on week three: send me off to work on various litigation matters heading to trial.
Listen, I get it, we were all there at one point.
But as someone who works in a much-derided practice field at a firm that isn't in the V20 (or even V50 lol), but who has: 3 houses, enough saved to last 10+ years if I were to stop working today, spent 2 months in Europe this year, and generally works less than 50 hours/wk...prestige is seriously overrated.
Tell me your ways… how do I get this?!?
Same pay? The 40 hour job any day of the week. Prestige is nonsense. The average person on the street is far more likely to have heard of Cellino than Wachtell.
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Prestige mattered to me until I had kids. Now my time with them is way more valuable. I left work at 4 today and spent the evening with my family. I didn’t open my laptop once after leaving or send any emails. Tomorrow I have plans to get lunch with my wife after my morning meetings. Will also do pick up and drop off with my kids. Taking Friday and Monday off and per my boss’s instruction will not even look at email. My TC is about $300k/yr so definitely not slumming it either.
THIS! The only prestige that has ever really mattered to me, though, is the respect and trust of my colleagues. You don’t have that, you have nothing.
In many ways (e.g., n/i comp and hours expectations), where I am I have a lot of the same authority as a partner - e.g., I can open new C/M, serve as supervising attorney, provide advice to clients on an autonomous basis without running it past other partners, etc. It’s also been made clear to me that all I have to do if I want to make more is bill more. I am paid very well for what I do bill. And I have the time and flexibility to spend with my family and do other things. That’s priceless.
Prestige in a vacuum isn't worth the extra hours, stress, and everything that comes along with it. If you are a younger attorney and still have plans to be actively rung-hopping on the ladder of your career, prestige may actually have financial value down the road when you take your next job. There is something to be said for building a network around where you want to go and working at a prestigious firm may or may not do that for you. Something to think about.
FWIW, I started my career at a prestigious firm (for my midwestern state anyway -- before the consolidation boom all around the country), then went in-house for 20 years (and ultimately became general counsel), and have recently chosen another path and started a solo practice (confidence to do so came from the reputation and network built through the first two roles).
I would take the 40-hr job. In fact, I've done both. And that is where I landed.
Yes…work life balance is incredible and you don’t even have to take a salary cut. Most people don’t get that. There are other ways to stroke that prestige itch anyways. Join some private clubs. Go to galas. Etc. they’re more fun than work anyways
I started at Skadden and got so many recruiter calls pushing “prestige”. Before the end of my first year I knew “prestige” was bs and I just wanted interesting work, market pay, and more of my life back.
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I have not once thought about prestige. I work at a small firm, I'm incredibly intelligent and good at my job. Most people outside of the profession have idea what firms are prestigious and most attorneys that I've worked with that work for the prestigious law firms recognize the my outstanding work. Having "prestigious" attorneys seeking me out for guidance in the same area that they also work in is all the validation I need.
The trade off to have a work-life balance for prestige is always yield the best outcome. If you speak to honest attorneys about the impact of working 80 hour weeks to meet billable is not prestige it simply business for the firm who is not concerned about you having a quality personal life.
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Your non-lawyer friends and family members only know you’re a “lawyer.” To them, that’s the prestige. Not one of these people cares about the firm’s name.
And the only reason so many non-lawyers know the name “Skadden,” is because Trump put that firm in the news.
Many non lawyers knew the name Skadden long before trump was on the national stage. I worked there more than 15 years ago and it always surprised me.
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Take the 40-hour job!