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re: Interested in Law School? Employment Numbers
Posted on 4/23/14 at 10:24 am to LSUSoulja08
Posted on 4/23/14 at 10:24 am to LSUSoulja08
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This post was edited on 1/4/18 at 10:40 am
Posted on 4/23/14 at 10:31 am to bluemoons
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Good luck to her. Tough choice I'm facing right now. Biglaw and money, or small firm on the northshore and less money + more freedom/better life.
I'm going with the latter. I totally understand why people opt for the former, but just not for me.
She compared the hours expected from the big firm to the smaller one in NOLA she is doing a summer associates with this summer
not much difference other than the paycheck
good luck to you as well. She is happy that process basically over with for her
Posted on 4/23/14 at 10:40 am to bluemoons
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Tough choice I'm facing right now. Biglaw and money, or small firm on the northshore and less money + more freedom/better life.
I'm going with the latter
I did biglaw right out of law school, the money is good, but my quality of life was terrible. I work for a company now making slightly more, I left some big bonuses and more earning potential on the table, but if I break it down to hourly pay I make a lot more now, and I can actually take a vacation and enjoy it these days instead of worrying about making up billable hours.
Posted on 4/23/14 at 12:56 pm to bluemoons
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Good luck to her. Tough choice I'm facing right now. Biglaw and money, or small firm on the northshore and less money + more freedom/better life.
I'm going with the latter. I totally understand why people opt for the former, but just not for me.
I highly recommend reconsidering. New Orleans "big law" works a roughly 9 to 6 or 7 day, which is maybe an 8 or 9 hour day after you exclude lunch. That's fricking nothing, particularly when you're young. Unless the pay at the North Shore firm is substantially similar and will remain that way the rest of your career, I would think taking the "big firm" job is a better option, at least for the first several years out of school. It is much easier to move from a "big firm" to a small firm if you find that you don't like what you're doing, but I think you may be disappointed if you think doing the small firm job will allow you to work only 7 hours a day and play golf the rest of the time. Besides, what's another hour? Seriously.
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