We just came across yet another blog with an interesting spin on BigLaw.
Yesterday it was a bit more mainstream: career advice and mentoring for women lawyers.
If you think the Laid Off Diary is pissed off, you’re really going to like this one.
While it’s apparently a re-launch, Big Debt Small Law has popped up with just two posts so far, but they’ve got an agenda and they’re coming out with both guns blazing.
If they didn’t have such a flair for writing, the vicious screeds against the ABA, law schools, and large firms’ treatment of staff lawyers would get tiring. But who isn’t entertained by gems like this?
Young lawyers are paying a dear price for the disaster that you’ve sown. Like the Joads in The Grapes of Wrath, many young barristers lead an impoverished, transient life, flocking from one document review project to the next while hoping to stay a paycheck ahead of the loan sharks at Sallie Mae. Some try to cut their teeth in the gutter of insurance defense “practice,” cutting and pasting reams of boilerplate dreck for less money than a day laborer on a landscape crew. The temp agency pimps and their masters in Biglaw routinely lie about pay and hours, treat their fellow attorneys like expendable pieces of garbage, and routinely engage in behavior that violates not only your Rules of Professional Responsibility but also our basic human dignity. You remain deathly silent at the widespread “chill and bill” tactics of Biglaw and the outsourcing of independent legal judgment to unlicensed third world slumdogs, yet are quick to string up some starving solo attorney who dare sends a paralegal to cover a routine court appearance in a trip n’ slip case.
The screed on conditions for temps at Paul Weiss is not to be missed, either.
But to be perfectly honest, we spent all our years in BigLaw in corporate and never dealt with this sort of stuff or really knew it was going on. Were we just blinded or is it deliberately hidden or are they embellishing for dramatic effect?
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