Jerry Brito

Young Lawyers’ Faustian Bargain, or My Sad Future

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Slate has a hilariously sad article about the unmitigated hell that awaits me as a junior associate at a big law firm. Turns out that the world’s largest law firm, Clifford Chance, came in dead last in American Lawyer’s annual survey of young associates. Management asked the associates to explain this, and the associates replied with a scathing 13-page memo that left partners “very shocked and very disappointed.”

Slate’s take that the memo belies a “psychological tragedy” and a “cry for help” and “deprogramming,” is probably, as we say in law school, on point.

Oct 30, 2002 | Comments