re: Interested in Law School? Employment Numbers

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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.

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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.