I saw several gentle "philosophy and humanity-types" enter law school and the legal profession. They began as sweet, nice people. Years later, they were a hundred pounds heavier, angry, slamming down phones, mumbling obscenities, wiping their sweaty foreheads with their arms while revealing equally sweaty arm pits.

"Get me a pastrami sandwich and two orders of onion rings!" I once heard an attorney yell to his secretary.

At 9:00 in the morning!

You can see this type of attorney in every major city. If I'm riding down the street in a cab in Chicago and see a crowd of people hustling down the street, I can pick out the stressed-out lawyers as easily as a hawk spotting a mouse. Fifteen years ago, they may have been stick-thin seniors in college in a Starbucks writing poems about the beauty of life and thinking gentle thoughts. "It would be nice to leave a flower by her door with a note about how good she looks today."

Now the same person is a 250-pound divorced beast who will start screaming obscenities when they bump into someone on the street.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3697409&forum_id=2#33958171)

i think i might start doing more coke

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3697409&forum_id=2#33958708)

But a lot of what he writes is very entertaining.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3697409&forum_id=2#33960073)

is he still playing for the Mavs?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3697409&forum_id=2#33958706)

http://www.bcgsearch.com/article/900046547/Why-Most-Attorneys-Are-Angry/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3697409&forum_id=2#33958770)

“We want our attorneys to be competitive.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3697409&forum_id=2#33960032)

What was going on? "Our clients are morons. They pay us $750 an hour for our advice on average and we barely understand their businesses and do like 20 minutes of Google research on a topic before calling them back or shitting out a memo. But they're catching on to our act, so we need shiny things to distract them."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3697409&forum_id=2#33965057)

But I never understood this guy's schtick. Isn't he a recruiter? Isn't he supposed to paint law as a rosy, happy career and pretend that your shitty job is just an anomaly? How does this schtick help with recruiting?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3697409&forum_id=2#33960001)

You want a guy who *gets* you and your struggle. Harrison offers you that. You go to this guy and he gets you a job but he knows why you're going in the first place: because you work for sociopaths and deep down you know you're just looking for the next, hopefully slightly-less-sociopathic place.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3697409&forum_id=2#33960044)

Instead, it's mostly just "LOL law = shit. That's why I'm a recruiter instead of a lawyer." That's a sentiment I totally get it. But it just makes me want to be a recruiter, not a lawyer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3697409&forum_id=2#33960065)

Plus he deals with the most risk averse of them all: usually larger firm lawyers.

This dude knows how to manipulate the psyche of the lawyer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3697409&forum_id=2#33960194)

FME, being inhouse gives you a boost over pvt practice attorneys. In large part because the practice is different -- need social skills, understand that you're another line item in the expense budget, be chill with coworkers, not be a fucking striver (well not all the time), etc.

Interviewed a guy from V10 recently. Total fucking striver. I can see him just irritating the paralegals and staff by treating them like shit. Sure, they aren't the best, but they are invaluable wrt office politics, etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3697409&forum_id=2#33965156)