Biglaw, Partner Issues

A Biglaw Partner's Rather Tacky Brag

Game, set, match.

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woman tennis player piggy bank moneyLOL What you call ‘rudeness’ is what got me where I am today. I am a partner at a big firm making over $650,000 a year. I’ll somehow survive if ‘several others’ won’t be coming back to the 4.0 team. To be honest, I don’t care whether there is a 4.0 team at all. I am perfectly happy with the 3.5 team and my players on that team.

— A Los Angeles-based litigation partner at an Am Law 100 firm, explaining during a long and heated email chain about women’s league tennis that her supposed “rudeness” is the secret to her success — and big salary.

DBL square headshotDavid Lat is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law and the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. He previously worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at [email protected].

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