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BigLaw doesn't lose good associates over the hours. It loses them over having zero control over those hours

I can tolerate a stupid amount of work when I know it's coming. Tell me we're signing Friday and I'll cancel dinner, order food to...

The other day I realized I've rescheduled more dates this year than I've been on and that's a pretty depressing thing to admit at 34

Working in corporate law means a normal Tuesday can turn into leaving the office at 10 because something landed on your desk at 5. By...

billing 2,000+ hours or how much unpaid time your job still owns

I used to think the brutal part of BigLaw was just the number of hours you bill. The longer Ive been doing this, the more...

BigLaw has a weird way of making someone else's bad planning your emergency

The longer I'm in BigLaw, the more convinced I am that "urgent" sometimes has less to do with the actual matter and more to do...