Posted on 06/14/2021 1:42:51 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Are some of them the same ones that want the taxpayer to pay off their student loans?
Interesting they make that much. I used to work for CSX Transportation. Got caught up in all the firings when Paul Hilal and Hunter Harrison fired about a 1/3 of the workforce. I don’t remember any of the lawyers in the company legal office getting a pink slip but one thing I found interesting was, the company hired outside counsel all the time, to address issues. The company had assets in 21 states, one would think they’d be able to hire at least one attorney to handle each one, because I know they had a bunch of them.
Me and my co-workers would routinely wonder why the company even had lawyers.
It’s a pyramid. They bring in a lot at entry level, and overpay them, but after that it’s “up or out.” Either you keep advancing, or they ease you out the door, and then your life is not so great. You’ve washed out of your ambition, and you are known to be a failure, so it’s not easy to get that next job, and it doesn’t pay 200k a year.
96 hours a week is not impossible for some corporate work.
They drive their associates like they stole them.
A new corporate lawyer will probably find himself working 80 hour weeks in hopes of getting promoted. After a year, the ones that show promise move up, and the rest get pushed out.
“No wonder the brightest students opt for Law Degrees instead of STEM Degrees.”
Yep, and those with STEM degrees find they can make far more money doing “financial engineering” rather than anything that benefits society.
I might have to re-read “The Firm” by John Grisham. That was a pretty good read. But I think the protagonist ended up working in Memphis or someplace down South.
Law is for the clever. Not for the intelligent.
Interns also. My niece is doing a summer internship. $3700/week pay but 75-80 hour weeks. She’s tired but excited to be working this summer.
Funny how the BLM types aren’t talking about how lawyers are “Too White”.
Years ago, a pretty famous attorney in Minneapolis invited a number of us up to his firm’s offices in downtown. They had a large balcony area where we were watching multiple July 4th fireworks all across the city.
As the security guard let me in and walked me thru the darkened offices to the balcony, I was surprised to see many attorneys working at their desks - even on the night of July 4th.
I knew that attorneys worked huge hours - especially the new ones - but I was surprised to see so many working on a holiday night.
Know how to paint.
Know how to work on cars...pretty much.
I've dug ditches...and pored concrete.
Don't know how to be a lawyer....
I got one..and he is good...and worth every penny.
“This doesn’t surprise me, since the local McDonald’s had “$17/hour to start” on their sign here yesterday.”
No kidding. $200K a year is only $100 per hour.
“A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.”
~Mario Puzo, The Godfather
I need a better briefcase, obviously.
“The Firm” by John Grisham.
I don’t see much difference between the fictional Bendini Lambert & Locke in the book and some of today’s law firms.
Damn. Let me try this again.
“A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.”
~Mario Puzo, The Godfather
I need a better briefcase, obviously.
(I’ll be here all week, folks).
“No wonder the brightest students opt for Law Degrees instead of STEM Degrees.”
Lawyers at least have to pass a bar exam; any Indian with a diploma-mill degree and a fictional resume can get a STEM job in the Uniparty’s America.
You can find a lot better jobs than being a disposable slave for a law firm, working for 90 hours a week, live in a small apartment with roommates in Manhattan. Your odds for being promoted to partner in the firm are about 1%.
....what do they call the bodies of 100 lawyers lying on the ocean floor...??
a good start......
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