Charlie Brown, Lucy, And That Football
As surely as Lucy will always pull away that football, a law firm will always pay its attorneys precisely as little as they can get away with to keep you working as hard as they need you to.
As surely as Lucy will always pull away that football, a law firm will always pay its attorneys precisely as little as they can get away with to keep you working as hard as they need you to.
Breaking down in tears in a partner's office at a Biglaw firm might not be the best way to handle this situation.
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You are not a machine. You are a human being. Even a partner at a Biglaw firm technically counts as a human being. You need to let go.
On its face, the comparison seems absurd -- but the deeper you look, the more the analogy makes sense.