Michelle Obama Tells The Truth About Life In Biglaw

Michelle Obama hates document review too.

Michelle Obama

I hated being a lawyer.

— Michelle Obama in her new memoir, Becoming, opens up about how miserable she was practicing law at Sidley Austin. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, she preaches about the soul-crushing nature of document review, “I was doing document production in Washington, D.C., and I was like, ‘I can’t do this for the rest of my life. I can’t sit in a room and look at documents.’ I won’t get into what that is, but it’s deadly. Deadly. Document production.” Oh, we understand, Michelle, we understand.


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