Related Posts
What’s going on in the District this week??
I studied econ not graphic design!!!!!!
Additional Posts in Big Law
Anyone else hoping for that H1B this year?
New to Fishbowl?
Download the Fishbowl app to
unlock all discussions on Fishbowl.
unlock all discussions on Fishbowl.
Not the best or worst: litigation. Not sure why people think litigation is chill. We definitely don’t have the fire drills or insanely tight deadlines that corporate teams do, but there’s ALWAYS work going on. No down time. Just constant 9am - 10 pm every day. And when you have multiple filings due on the same day, God help you.
Best, non-working spouse of a biglaw equity partner. Worst: transactional paralegal—70-80% associate hours for 1/3 of the pay.
Just so everyone understands, this was in fact posted to validate that my life is worse than everyone else outside my group and my wish came true.
Mentor
I don’t know if this is true for everyone, but I love white collar work, and the lifestyle is pretty predictable.
Mentor
Worst: private equity, leveraged finance
Best: specialist and regulatory practices seem pretty chill
A6, specialists with no biz dev potential get made EQUITY partner at many places.
Subject Expert
Restructuring when it’s busy always had the worst hours at our firm. The lightest historically were T&E and tax.
Subject Expert
True but dealing with high strung entitled rich people is pretty par for the course in biglaw.
Worst: M&A
Better: RET
Best: T&E
Worst: M&A
I think exec comp is bad if your corporate team is not good.
Enthusiast
I'm in commercial transactions - it's pretty chill. :)
Yeah not a V10