http://myshingle.com/2008/05/articles/biglaw-practice-and-issues/burning-bridges-finding-new-ones/ Great Things Come in Small [Law] Practices! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://myshingle.com/2008/05/articles/biglaw-practice-and-issues/burning-bridges-finding-new-ones/comment-page-1/#comment-2978 Disgusted Beyond Belief Tue, 13 May 2008 09:47:07 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/2008/05/articles/uncategorized/burning-bridges-finding-new-ones/#comment-2978 First, kudos to you for changing your mind and admitting it publicly. It is always hard to admit publicly to one thing then admit publicly to the opposite - just human nature, that. And a sign of someone who follows evidence over ideology. Your post also got me thinking about what things are like in an internet world - before the internet and the web, things could have gone much worse for this associate, in the sense that if what she did got out in the general sense among other big firms, she may very well have simply been shut out by them, unable to tell her side of the story. But with the internet, everyone knows her side of the story, knows that she was wronged, and that made a lot of people sympathetic and willing to help. On a final note, I personally have heard almost nothing but bad things about working for large law firms - not just in terms of poor treatment but in terms of what you mention in the next post-associates often don't get to do any real work or get any good experience. A rather bad combination. Maybe for some the huge pay makes up for that, but I think it can also trap people. I have never worked for a large firm (though in a previous professional life I worked for some very large corporations), so I can only go by second-hand accounts, but they have been enough for me to never want to work for a large firm. First, kudos to you for changing your mind and admitting it publicly. It is always hard to admit publicly to one thing then admit publicly to the opposite – just human nature, that. And a sign of someone who follows evidence over ideology.
Your post also got me thinking about what things are like in an internet world – before the internet and the web, things could have gone much worse for this associate, in the sense that if what she did got out in the general sense among other big firms, she may very well have simply been shut out by them, unable to tell her side of the story. But with the internet, everyone knows her side of the story, knows that she was wronged, and that made a lot of people sympathetic and willing to help.
On a final note, I personally have heard almost nothing but bad things about working for large law firms – not just in terms of poor treatment but in terms of what you mention in the next post-associates often don’t get to do any real work or get any good experience. A rather bad combination. Maybe for some the huge pay makes up for that, but I think it can also trap people. I have never worked for a large firm (though in a previous professional life I worked for some very large corporations), so I can only go by second-hand accounts, but they have been enough for me to never want to work for a large firm.

]]> http://myshingle.com/2008/05/articles/biglaw-practice-and-issues/burning-bridges-finding-new-ones/comment-page-1/#comment-7378 Disgusted Beyond Belief Tue, 13 May 2008 09:47:00 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/2008/05/articles/uncategorized/burning-bridges-finding-new-ones/#comment-7378 First, kudos to you for changing your mind and admitting it publicly. It is always hard to admit publicly to one thing then admit publicly to the opposite - just human nature, that. And a sign of someone who follows evidence over ideology. Your post also got me thinking about what things are like in an internet world - before the internet and the web, things could have gone much worse for this associate, in the sense that if what she did got out in the general sense among other big firms, she may very well have simply been shut out by them, unable to tell her side of the story. But with the internet, everyone knows her side of the story, knows that she was wronged, and that made a lot of people sympathetic and willing to help. On a final note, I personally have heard almost nothing but bad things about working for large law firms - not just in terms of poor treatment but in terms of what you mention in the next post-associates often don't get to do any real work or get any good experience. A rather bad combination. Maybe for some the huge pay makes up for that, but I think it can also trap people. I have never worked for a large firm (though in a previous professional life I worked for some very large corporations), so I can only go by second-hand accounts, but they have been enough for me to never want to work for a large firm. First, kudos to you for changing your mind and admitting it publicly. It is always hard to admit publicly to one thing then admit publicly to the opposite – just human nature, that. And a sign of someone who follows evidence over ideology.
Your post also got me thinking about what things are like in an internet world – before the internet and the web, things could have gone much worse for this associate, in the sense that if what she did got out in the general sense among other big firms, she may very well have simply been shut out by them, unable to tell her side of the story. But with the internet, everyone knows her side of the story, knows that she was wronged, and that made a lot of people sympathetic and willing to help.
On a final note, I personally have heard almost nothing but bad things about working for large law firms – not just in terms of poor treatment but in terms of what you mention in the next post-associates often don’t get to do any real work or get any good experience. A rather bad combination. Maybe for some the huge pay makes up for that, but I think it can also trap people. I have never worked for a large firm (though in a previous professional life I worked for some very large corporations), so I can only go by second-hand accounts, but they have been enough for me to never want to work for a large firm.

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