September 12, 2008
- Career Description for Litigators as Going to Battle
My older brother, a member of Harvard Law School's Class of 1990, learned that life as a litigator at a large firm in New York could be compared to going off to battle each day. Following graduation, my brother clerked for a judge in Massachusetts for a year. After approximately seven years of practicing law with two large law firms in New York City, my brother decided to abandon the law and begin a career in finance and investment banking. He was tired of having to go to "battle" every day as a litigator. He was also disillusioned witha hierarchical law firm structure that placed huge demands on its junior lawyers, yet provided no guarantee or substantial prospect that even its most productive and promising junior lawyers would become partners. My brother is not alone in fleeing the law for perceived greener pastures.
June 3, 2008
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